Community and Economic Development Faculty

Charles W. Abdalla
Professor of Agricultural and Environmental Economics
Areas of Interest:   Natural Resource Economics and Policy. (Extension and Research)

201-B Armsby
(814) 865-2562
cabdalla@psu.edu

Theodore R. Alter
Professor of Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics
Areas of Interest:   Rural and Community Development, Resource Economics and Policy, Public Finance

204 Armsby
(814) 863-8640
talter@psu.edu

John C. Becker
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)

207-C Armsby
(814) 863-0575
jcb1@psu.edu

David Blandford
Professor of Agricultural and Environmental Economics
Areas of Interest:   Agribusiness, International Trade, Food and Agricultural Policy, International Agricultural Development. (Research and Teaching)

112-D Armsby
(814) 863-8648
dblandford@psu.edu

Kathryn Brasier
Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology
Areas of Interest:   Environmental/Natural Resource Sociology, Agriculture, Land Use Issues. (Research and Extension)

105-B Armsby
(814) 865-7321
kjb24@psu.edu

Jeffrey Bridger
Senior Research Associate

7-A Armsby
(814) 863-8631
jcb8@psu.edu

Bayou Demeke
Visiting Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Environmental Economics

210-A Armsby
(814) 863-5949
bed155@psu.edu

Ann Dodd
Assistant Dean for Strategic Initiatives in the College of Agricultural Sciences

217 Ag Admin Bldg
(814) 865-3136

Jill L. Findeis
Distinguished Professor of Agricultural, Environmental & Regional Economics and Demography
Areas of Interest:   Rural Economic Development, Human Resource Development. (Research and Teaching)

111-D Armsby
(814) 863-8246
fa2@psu.edu

Leland L. Glenna
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

105-C Armsby
(814) 863-8636
llg13@psu.edu

Stephan J. Goetz
Director of Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development
Professor of Agricultural and Regional Economics
Areas of Interest:   Rural and Community Development and Regional Economics

7-E Armsby
(814) 863-4656
sgoetz@psu.edu

Clare Hinrichs
Associate Professor of Rural Sociology
Areas of Interest:   Sociology of Food Systems, Agriculture and Environment; Rural Social Change and Development. (Research and Teaching)

112-F Armsby
(814) 863-8628
chinrichs@psu.edu

Leif Jensen
Professor of Rural Sociology and Demography
Areas of Interest:   Demography, Social Stratification, Development and Economic Change. (Research and Teaching)

110-A Armsby
(814) 863-8642
ljensen@psu.edu

Timothy W. Kelsey
Professor of Agricultural Economics
Areas of Interest:   Community Economics and Public Policy. (Extension and Research)

105-A Armsby
(814) 865-9542
tkelsey@psu.edu

Janelle M. Larson
Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics
Areas of Interest:   International Economic Development. (Teaching and Research)

Berks Campus
(814) 396-6183
jbl6@psu.edu

A.E. Luloff
Professor of Rural Sociology
Areas of Interest:   Rural Sociology, Rural Community Development, Rural Policy, Natural Resource Sociology. (Research and Teaching)

114 Armsby
(814) 863-8643
aeluloff@psu.edu

Diane K. McLaughlin
Professor of Rural Sociology and Demography
Areas of Interest:   Community and Community Development, Labor Market Structure and Inequality, Family Demography, and Rural Health

110-C Armsby
(814) 863-8626
dkk@psu.edu

Anouk Patel-Campillo
Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology
Areas of Interest:   City and Regional Planning, Development, Global Economic Restructuring and Agriculture

111-B Armsby
(814) 865-2561
aup20@psu.edu

Richard C. Ready
Associate Professor of Agricultural and Environmental Economics
Areas of Interest:   Environmental and Natural Resource Economics

112-A Armsby
(814) 863-5575
rready@psu.edu

Carolyn Sachs
Professor of Rural Sociology
Areas of Interest:   Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Women in Agriculture and Rural Development. (Research, Teaching, and Extension)

111-C Armsby
(814) 863-8641
xyl@psu.edu

John Shingler
Research Associate

5 Armsby
(814) 863-8653
jxs10@psu.edu,

Stephen M. Smith
Head of the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology
Professor of Agricultural and Regional Economics
Areas of Interest:   Rural Development, Economic Diversification, International Agricultural Development. Research and Teaching

103-C Armsby
(814) 865-5461
smsmith@psu.edu

James E. Van Horn
Professor of Rural Sociology
Areas of Interest:   Rural Sociologist, Family Sociology Extension. (Teaching and Extension)

111-A Armsby
(814) 863-8646
jev@psu.edu

Fern K. Willits
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)

113 Armsby
(814) 863-8647
fkw@psu.edu