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Professor of Rural Sociology, HCRD
Interim Director, Environmental Sciences Graduate Program
OARDC Research Faculty
Adjunct, Department of Anthropology
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 2009
- Graduate Studies Committee, Japanese Studies Graduate Program
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, Upper Scioto Watershed, and the U.S.
- Japanese rural social structure
- Grants: USDA SARE, USDA Water Quality, EPA, National Science Foundation
Service
- Agroecosystem Management Program
- Organic Food, Farming, Education, and Research Program
- Member of American Anthropological Association (board member of the Society for Agriculture and Culture) Rural Sociological Society; Innovative Farmers of Ohio (board member), Ohio Ecological Food and Farming Association
- University Senator (alternate)
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