Faculty
Leland L. Glenna
Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology and Science, Technology, and Society
(Ph.D., Rural Sociology, University of Missouri, 1997)
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Email address: llg13@psu.edu Telephone: 1-814-863-8636 Fax: 1-814-865-3746 Office address: 105C Armsby University Park, PA 16802
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Research Interests
My teaching and research program is in agriculture and natural resources. Within that more general program, I have three areas of emphasis: 1) social and environmental impacts of agricultural science and technologies, 2) the role of science and technology in agricultural and natural resource policy making, and 3) the social and ethical implications of democratizing science and technology research.
Outreach/Extension Interests
Although I do not have a formal extension appointment, I consider it the responsibility of rural sociologists to participate in outreach activities. One of my most significant outreach activities has been my service as a member on the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s Task Force on Faith and Genetics.
Current/Recent Courses
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CED 427w: Society and Natural Resources
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RSoc 597: Agricultural Science and Technology Studies
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RSoc 597: Contemporary Social Theory
Recent Selected Publications
Glenna, Leland L. and Georgi V. Mitev. Forthcoming. “Global Neo-liberalism, Global Ecological Modernization, and a Swine CAFO in Rural Bulgaria” Journal of Rural Studies
Glenna, Leland L. Forthcoming. "Value-Laden Technocratic Management and Environmental Conflicts: The Case of the New York City Watershed Controversy." Science, Technology, & Human Values
Glenna, Leland L. 2008. “Redeeming Labor: Making Explicit the Virtue Theory in Habermas’s Discourse Ethics.” Critical Sociology 34(6): 767-786.
Glenna, Leland L., Rick Welsh, William B. Lacy, and Dina Biscotti. 2007. “Industry Perceptions of University-Industry Relationships Related to Agricultural Biotechnology Research.” Rural Sociology 72(4): 608–631.
Glenna, Leland and Ray Jussaume. 2007. “Organic and Conventional Farmers’ Opinions on GM Crops and Marketing Strategies.” Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems 22(2): 118-124.
Glenna, Leland L., William B. Lacy, Rick Welsh, and Dina Biscotti. 2007. “University Administrators, Agricultural Biotechnology, and Academic Capitalism: Defining the Public Good to Promote University-Industry Relationships.” The Sociological Quarterly. 48(1): 141-164.
Recent Selected Presentations and Papers
Leland Glenna, Raymond Jussaume, and Julie Dawson, “How Farmers Matter in Technology Development: Social Characteristics of Wheat Growers and Wheat Varieties” Paper presented at the Rural Sociological Society meetings, Manchester, New Hampshire. 31 July 2008.
Leland L. Glenna and Georgi Mitev. “Globalization, Ecological Modernization, and a Swine CAFO in Rural Bulgaria.” Paper presented at the bi-annual meeting of the European Society for Rural Sociology, Wageningen, the Netherlands. 23 August 2007.
Leland Glenna. "From Renewable to Alternative: Waste Coal and the Pennsylvania Alternative Energy Portfolio Standard" Science, Technology and Society Brown Bag Seminar. Wednesday, 3 October 2007. University Park, PA.
Leland L. Glenna, Rick Welsh, William B. Lacy and Dina Biscotti. “Academic Capitalism and Re-Disciplining University Science: Scientists’ Values, Intellectual Property, and Agricultural Biotechnology.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Rural Sociological Society, Santa Clara, CA. 3 August 2007.
Recent Selected Awards and Recognition
Roy C. Buck Award, Pennsylvania State University, 2007