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Speakers
Workshop: The Art and Science of Writing Policy Briefs
Keith J. Mueller, Director of RUPRI Center for Health Policy Analysis
Professor and Head of the Section on Health Services Research and Rural Health Policy, at the University of Nebraska Medical Center
Sunday, July 27 - 2:30 - 5:30 PM
As part of its mission to help ensure that rural sociologists have a voice in policy formulation and evaluation at all levels of government, the Rural Sociological Society's Development Committee is organizing a workshop for the summer annual meeting in Montreal. The workshop will be designed to provide basic information on the keys to developing, writing and assembling effective policy briefs. The featured presenter at the workshop will be Prof. Keith J. Mueller, who is is currently Professor and Head of the Section on Health Services Research and Rural Health Policy, at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. He also is Director of the RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis. Prof. Mueller has a long track record of Congressional briefings and testimony, and is well-qualified to offer this workshop on the do's and don'ts of writing policy briefs. The workshop is highly recommended for RSS interest group chairs or their representatives, and others who wish to boost the presence of the RSS by writing policy briefs on the Society's behalf.
RSS Plenary Speaker:
Re-Thinking Geographically Uneven Development
Monday, July 28 - 3:45 - 5:00 PM
Kevin R. Cox, originally from England, received his undergraduate degree from Cambridge University and graduate degrees from the University of Illinois. He is currently Professor of Geography at The Ohio State University. His interests are in the politics of space and in method broadly conceived. He is the author of four books, his most recent being Political Geography: Territory, State and Society.
RSS Plenary Speaker:
Goods of the Earth: Products, Desire, Resources
Tuesday, July 29 - 2:00 - 3:15 PM
Dr. Harvey Molotch, is Professor of Metropolitan Studies and Sociology at New York University and Professor of Sociology at University of California, Santa Barbara. His research centers on "growth machine processes" and land deals and urban development; how power works in human interaction; the importance of art and design in making economies human. He has authored five books, including, Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place (1987), and his forthcoming volume, Where Stuff Comes From (Routledge, 2003). His recent article, "History Repeats Itself, but How?: City Character, Urban Tradition, and the Accomplishment of Place," with William Freudenburg and Krista Paulsen, American Sociological Review (December 2000), received the 2001 American Sociological Association's Outstanding Journal Article of the Year in Political Sociology.
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