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

David G. Abler
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)

207-B Armsby
(814) 863-8630
d-abler@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

James G. Beierlein
Professor of Agricultural Economics
Areas of Interest:   Agribusiness Management - Finance, Marketing, Personnel, Time, Salesmanship, Transportation. (Research, Teaching, and Extension)

207-A Armsby
(814) 863-3536
jgb@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

Alessandro Bonanno
Assistant Professor of Agricultural Economics
Areas of Interest:   Industrial Organization, Economics of Food Retailing, Consumer Economics, Food Marketing

207-D Armsby
(814) 863-8633
aub24@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

James W. Dunn
Professor of Agricultural Economics
Areas of Interest:   Transportation, Agricultural Marketing. (Research, Teaching, and Extension)

203 Armsby
(814) 863-8625
jwd6@psu.edu

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

Karen Fisher-Vanden
Associate Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics
Areas of Interest:   Environmental Economics: Climate Change Policy; Technological Change in Developing Countries

112-E Armsby
(814) 867-2752
kaf26@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

Gregory D. Hanson
Professor of Agricultural Economics
Areas of Interest:   Farm Management, Agricultural Finance, Agribusiness. Extension and Research.

201-C Armsby
(814) 865-6362
gdh3@psu.edu

Jayson K. Harper
Professor of Agricultural Economics
Areas of Interest:   Farm Management. Extension and Research

201-D Armsby
(814) 863-8638
jharper@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

Jeffrey Hyde
Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics
Areas of Interest:   Farm Management. (Extension and Research)

210-B Armsby
(814) 865-5666
jeffhyde@psu.edu

Edward C. Jaenicke
Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics
Areas of Interest:   Agribusiness Economics: Organic Retailing and Marketing, Contracting in Agriculture. (Research and Teaching)

208-C Armsby
(814) 865-5282
tjaenicke@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

H. Allen Klaiber
Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Environmental Economics
Areas of Interest:   Environmental Economics; Applied Econometrics; Public Economics; Energy

208-A Armsby
(814) 865-0469
hak11@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

Mark A. Leach
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

110-B Armsby
(814) 867-2871
mal41@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

H. Louis Moore
Professor of Agricultural Economics
Areas of Interest:   Agricultural Marketing. Project Leader in Agricultural Marketing Extension. Livestock, Grain, Meat Marketing and Agricultural Policy. (Extension)

202 Armsby
(814) 865-0460
hlm4@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

Sheila S Sager
Research Assistant

303 Armsby
(814) 863-6816
sss2@psu.edu

John Shingler
Research Associate

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

James S. Shortle
Distinguished Professor of Agricultural and Environmental Economics
Director, Environment and Natural Resources Institute
Areas of Interest:   Natural Resource and Environmental Economics, Public Economics, Operations Research, Policy Analysis. (Research and Teaching)

112-C Armsby
(814) 865-7657
jshortle@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

Spiro E. Stefanou
Professor of Agricultural Economics
Areas of Interest:   Production Economics, Operations Research, Econometrics. (Research and Teaching)

208-B Armsby
(814) 863-8635
SpiroS@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

Robert D. Weaver
Professor of Agricultural Economics
Areas of Interest:   Agricultural Policy and Marketing. (Research and Teaching)

201-E Armsby
(814) 863-8632
r2w@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

Barry L. Zoumas
Alan R. Warehime Professor of Agribusiness
Areas of Interest:   Agribusiness Management, Food Systems, Research and Development Policy. (Teaching)

205 Armsby
(814) 863-2847
bzoumas@psu.edu