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Richard H. Moore

Professor, HCRD
OARDC Research Faculty

Education

  • Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin 1985
  • M.A., Anthropology, The Ohio State University 1975
  • B.S.Ed., Education, The Ohio State University 1975
  • B.A., Asian Studies, DePauw University 1972

Teaching Experience

  • Appointment is 70% research and 30% extension. Occasional courses relating to watershed ecology, agriculture and society, social organization have included:
  • RS 766 Environmental Sociology, Winter 2008
  • Graduate Studies Committee (Chair), Environmental Sciences Graduate Program
  • Graduate Studies Committee, Japanese Studies Graduate Program
  • Adjunct, Department of Anthropology

Area of Research

Specializes in community social organization and agroecology within a watershed context. Ongoing research projects include:

  • Sugar Creek Watershed (located in Holmes and Wayne counties of Ohio) biocomplexity linking social and natural ecosystems. See www.sugarcreekmethod.osu.edu for details.
  • Participatory rural community social structure and learning communities in headwaters streams
  • Water quality trading in Sugar Creek and the U.S.
  • Japanese rural social structure
  • Grants: USDA SARE, USDA Water Quality, EPA, National Science Foundation

Service

  • College of FAES Faculty Council
  • Agroecosystem Management Program, Organic Food, Farming, Education, and Research Program
  • Member of American Anthropological Association (subunit: Society for Agriculture and Culture) Rural Sociological Society; Innovative Farmers of Ohio (board member), Ohio Ecological Food and Farming Association; OSU
  • University Senator (alternate)

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Richard H. Moore

 

The Ohio State University