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Charles W. Abdalla   201-B Armsby
(814) 865-2562

cabdalla@psu.edu
Professor of Agricultural and Environmental Economics
Areas of Interest:   Natural Resource Economics and Policy. Extension and Research

David G. Abler   207-B Armsby
(814) 863-8630

d-abler@psu.edu
Professor of Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics and Demography
Areas of Interest:   International Agricultural Development, Agricultural Trade, Natural Resource and Environmental Economics. Research and Teaching

Theodore R. Alter   204 Armsby
(814) 863-8640

talter@psu.edu
Professor of Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics
Areas of Interest:   Rural and Community Development, Resource Economics and Policy, Public Finance

Kenneth W. Bailey   208-C Armsby
(814) 863-8649

baileyk@psu.edu
Professor of Agricultural Economics
Areas of Interest:   Dairy Marketing and Policy Analysis. Extension and Research

John C. Becker   207-C Armsby
(814) 863-0575

jcb1@psu.edu
Professor of Agricultural Economics and Law
Areas of Interest:   Estate Planning and Administration, Business Organization, Employer/Employee Issues and Agricultural Law, Environmental Law, particularly as applied to Agriculture. Extension, Teaching and Research

James G. Beierlein   207-A Armsby
(814) 863-3536

jgb@psu.edu
Professor of Agricultural Economics
Areas of Interest:   Agribusiness Management - Finance, Marketing, Personnel, Time, Salesmanship, Transportation. Research, Teaching, and Extension

David Blandford   112-D Armsby
(814) 863-8648

dblandford@psu.edu
Professor of Agricultural and Environmental Economics
Areas of Interest:   Agribusiness, International Trade, Food and Agricultural Policy, International Agricultural Development. Research and Teaching

Alessandro Bonanno   207-D Armsby
(814) 863-8633

aub24@psu.edu
Assistant Professor of Agriciultural Economic
Areas of Interest:   Industrial Organization, Economics of Food Retailing, Consumer Economics, Food Marketing

Kathryn Brasier   105-B Armsby
(814) 865-7321

kjb24@psu.edu
Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology
Areas of Interest:   Environmental/Natural Resource Sociology, Agriculture, Land Use Issues. Research and Extension

Jeffrey Bridger   7-A Armsby
(814) 863-8631

jcb8@psu.edu


Bayou Demeke   210-A Armsby
(814) 863-5949

bed155@psu.edu
Visiting Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Environmental Economics

James W. Dunn   203 Armsby
(814) 863-8625

jwd6@psu.edu
Professor of Agricultural Economics
Areas of Interest:   Transportation, Agricultural Marketing. Research, Teaching, and Extension

Jill L. Findeis   111-D Armsby
(814) 863-8246

fa2@psu.edu
Distinguished Professor of Agricultural, Environmental & Regional Economics and Demography
Areas of Interest:   Rural Economic Development, Human Resource Development. Research and Teaching

Karen Fisher-Vanden   112-E Armsby
(814) 867-2752

kaf26@psu.edu
Associate Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics
Areas of Interest:   Environmental Economics: Climate Change Policy; Technological Change in Developing Countries

Leland L. Glenna   105-C Armsby
(814) 863-8636

llg13@psu.edu
Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology and Science, Technology, and Society
Areas of Interest:   Sociology of agriculture and natural resources, science and technology studies, and economic sociology

Stephan J. Goetz   7-E Armsby
(814) 863-4656

sgoetz@psu.edu
Director of Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development and Professor of Agricultural and Regional Economics
Areas of Interest:   Rural and Community Development and Regional Economics

Gregory D. Hanson   201-C Armsby
(814) 865-6362

gdh3@psu.edu
Professor of Agricultural Economics
Areas of Interest:   Farm Management, Agricultural Finance, Agribusiness. Extension and Research.

Jayson K. Harper   214-A Armsby
(814) 863-8638

jharper@psu.edu
Professor of Agricultural Economics
Areas of Interest:   Farm Management. Extension and Research

Clare Hinrichs   112-F Armsby
(814) 863-8628

chinrichs@psu.edu
Associate Professor of Rural Sociology
Areas of Interest:   Sociology of Food Systems, Agriculture and Environment; Rural Social Change and Development; Research and Teaching

Jeffrey Hyde   210-B Armsby
(814) 865-5666

jeffhyde@psu.edu
Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics
Areas of Interest:   Farm Management. Extension and Research

Edward C. Jaenicke   208-A Armsby
(814) 865-5282

tjaenicke@psu.edu
Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics
Areas of Interest:   Agribusiness Management, Research and Teaching

Leif Jensen   110-A Armsby
(814) 863-8642

ljensen@psu.edu
Professor of Rural Sociology and Demography.
Areas of Interest:   Demography, Social Stratification, Development and Economic Change. Research and Teaching

Timothy W. Kelsey   105-A Armsby
(814) 865-9542

tkelsey@psu.edu
Professor of Agricultural Economics
Areas of Interest:   Community Economics and Public Policy. Extension and Research

Janelle M. Larson   Berks
(814) 396-6183

jbl6@psu.edu
Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics
Areas of Interest:   International Economic Development. Teaching and Research

Mark A. Leach   110-B Armsby
(814) 867-2871

mal41@psu.edu
Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology and Demography
Areas of Interest:   U.S. Immigration and Immigrant Incorporation (rural/urban differences), Mexican Migration and Settlement in New U.S. Destinations, Immigrant Families & Households, Social Demography, Quantitative Methods

A.E. Luloff   114 Armsby
(814) 863-8643

aeluloff@psu.edu
Professor of Rural Sociology
Areas of Interest:   Rural Sociology, Rural Community Development, Rural Policy, Natural Resource Sociology. Research and Teaching.

Diane K. McLaughlin   110-C Armsby
(814) 863-8626

dkk@psu.edu
Professor of Rural Sociology and Demography
Areas of Interest:   Community and Community Development, Labor Market Structure and Inequality, Family Demography, and Rural Health

H. Louis Moore   202 Armsby
(814) 865-0460

hlm4@psu.edu
Professor of Agricultural Economics
Areas of Interest:   Agricultural Marketing. Project Leader in Agricultural Marketing Extension. Livestock, Grain, Meat Marketing and Agricultural Policy. Extension

Anouk Patel-Campillo   111-B Armsby
(814) 865-2561

Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology

Richard C. Ready   112-A Armsby
(814) 863-5575

rready@psu.edu
Associate Professor of Agricultural and Environmental Economics
Areas of Interest:   Environmental and Natural Resource Economics

Carolyn Sachs   111-C Armsby
(814) 863-8641

xyl@psu.edu
Professor of Rural Sociology
Areas of Interest:   Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Women in Agriculture and Rural Development. Research, Teaching, and Extension

Sheila S Sager   303 Armsby
(814) 863-6816

sss2@psu.edu
Research Technician

John Shingler   5 Armsby
(814) 863-8653

jxs10@psu.edu,
Research Associate

James S. Shortle   112-C Armsby
(814) 865-7657

jshortle@psu.edu
Distinguished Professor of Agricultural and Environmental Economics and Director, Environment and Natural Resources Institute
Areas of Interest:   Natural Resource and Environmental Economics, Public Economics, Operations Research, Policy Analysis. Research and Teaching

Stephen M. Smith   103-C Armsby
(814) 865-5461

smsmith@psu.edu
Head of the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology and Professor of Agricultural and Regional Economics
Areas of Interest:   Rural Development, Economic Diversification, International Agricultural Development. Research and Teaching

Spiro E. Stefanou   208-B Armsby
(814) 863-8635

SpiroS@psu.edu
Professor of Agricultural Economics
Areas of Interest:   Production Economics, Operations Research, Econometrics. Research and Teaching

Jeffrey R. Stokes   201-D Armsby
(814) 863-2984

jstokes@psu.edu
Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics
Areas of Interest:   Agricultural Business. Finance, Quantitative Methods. Research and Teaching

James E. Van Horn   111-A Armsby
(814) 863-8646

jev@psu.edu
Professor of Rural Sociology
Areas of Interest:   Rural Sociologist, Family Sociology Extension. Teaching and Extension

Robert D. Weaver   201-E Armsby
(814) 863-8632

r2w@psu.edu
Professor of Agricultural Economics
Areas of Interest:   Agricultural Policy and Marketing. Research and Teaching

Fern K. Willits   113 Armsby
(814) 863-8647

fkw@psu.edu
Distinguished Professor of Rural Sociology
Areas of Interest:   Individual Well-Being and Life-Satisfaction in Adulthood, Changing Values and Attitudes Through the Lifespan, Adolescent Behavior, Rurality. Research and Teaching

Barry L. Zoumas   205 Armsby
(814) 863-2847

bzoumas@psu.edu
Alan R. Warehime Professor of Agribusiness
Areas of Interest:   Agribusiness Management, Food Systems, Research and Development Policy. Teaching

 

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