North American Academic Institutions
Working in Rural Sociology
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| Alaska | Iowa | Nevada | South Dakota |
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| Arkansas | Kentucky | New Jersey | Texas |
| California | Louisiana | New Mexico | Utah |
| Colorado | Maine | New York | Vermont |
| Connecticut | Maryland | North Carolina | Virginia |
| Delaware | Massachusetts | North Dakota | Washington |
| Florida | Michigan | Ohio | West Virginia |
| Georgia | Minnesota | Oklahoma | Wisconsin |
| Hawaii | Mississippi | Oregon | Wyoming |
| Idaho | Missouri | Pennsylvania | |
| Illinois | Montana | Rhode Island | Canada |
Alabama
Auburn University
Contact: Conner Bailey
cbailey@acesag.auburn.edu
Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology
202 Comer Hall
Auburn University
Auburn, AL 36849-5406
TEL: 334/844-5632
FAX: 334/844-5639
Areas of Specialization in Department or Program:
Rural Sociology, Community, Environmental and Natural Resources, Applied Research Methods and Statistics, International Development Studies
Website: http://www.ag.auburn.edu/agec/
Colorado
Colorado State University
Contact: Prabha Unnithan
prabha@lamar.colostate.edu
Department of Sociology
B236 Clark Building
Fort Collins, CO 80523-1784
TEL: 970/491-6615
Areas of Specialization in Department or Program:
Rural Sociology, Sociology of Natural Resources, Social Change, Criminology, Globalization
Website: www.colostate.edu/Depts/Sociology
Illinois
University of Illinoin-Urbana
Contact: Bob Hughes
hughesro@uiuc.edu
Dept of Human and Community Development
274 Bevier Hall MC-180, 905 S Goodwin Ave
Urbana, IL 61801
TEL: 217/333-3790
FAX: 217/244-7877
Areas of Specialization in Department or Program:
Agricultural Communications, Agricultural Education Community and Rural Development, Environmental Communication
Website: http://www.hcd.uiuc.edu/
Iowa
Iowa State University
Contact: Paul Lasley
plasley@iastate.edu
Department of Sociology
107 East Hall
Ames, IA 50011-1070
TEL: 515/294-0937
FAX: 515/294-8649
Areas of Specialization in Department or Program:
Community Studies and Development; Food Systems, Agriculture and the Environment; Sociology of Families; Methodology; Social Change and Development; Criminology; Social Inequality; The Economy, Organizations and Work; Social Psychology; Theory
Website: www.soc.iastate.edu
Kansas
Kansas State University
Contact: Gerad Middendorf
middendo@ksu.edu
Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work
204 Waters Hall
Manhattan, KS 66506-4003
TEL: 785/532-4960
FAX: 785/532-6978
Areas of Specialization in Department or Program:
Social Change and Development; Rural Development; Work and Labor Markets; Gender Relations; Critical and Feminist Criminology; Politics, States and Social Movements
Website: http://www.k-state.edu/sasw/
Kentucky
University of Kentucky
Contact: Gary Hansen
ghansen@uky.edu
Department of Sociology
500 Garrigus Building
Lexington, KY 40546
TEL: 859/257-7586
FAX: 859/257-1164
Areas of Specialization in Department or Program:
Community, Agriculture, Social Change
Website: www.uky.edu/Ag/Sociology
Louisiana
Louisiana State University
Contact: Michael Grimes
mgrimes@lsu.edu
Department of Sociology
126 Stubbs Hall
Baton Rouge, LA 70803-5411
TEL: 225/578-1645
FAX: 225/578-5102
Areas of Specialization in Department or Program:
Criminology/Deviance, Social Inequality, Social Capital
Website: http://appl003.lsu.edu/artsci/sociologyweb.nsf/index
Maryland
University of Maryland
Contact: William Falk
wfalk@socy.umd.edu
Department of Sociology
Rm 2112, Art/Sociology Bldg
College Park, MD 20742
TEL: 301/405-6394
FAX: 301/314-6892
Areas of Specialization in Department or Program:
Development, Demography, Military Sociology, Social Psychology, Stratification/Mobility, Theory, Comparative Sociology, Gender/Work/Family
Website: www.bsos.umd.edu/socy/
Michigan
Michigan State University
Contact: Thomas Connor, Larry Busch
soc@mus.edu
Department of Sociology
Speciality in Rural and Environmental Studies
316 Berkey Hall
East Lansing, MI 48824-1111
TEL: 517/355-6632
FAX: 517/432-2856
Areas of Specialization in Department or Program:
Environment, Science and Technology; Family Studies; Feminist Sociology; Food and Agriculture; Migration, Social Structure and Identity; Race and Ethnicity; Social Psychology/Social Psychology of Health
Website: www.soc.msu.edu
Mississippi
Mississippi State University
Contact: Frank Howell
fmhl@ra.msstate.edu
PO Box C
Mississippi State University
Mississippi State, MS 39762
TEL: 662/325-2495
FAX: 662/325-4564
Areas of Specialization in Department or Program:
Rural Sociology, Community, Agriculture, Environmental and Natural Resources, Rural Labor Markets, Spatial Analysis Methods, Demography
Website: www.msstate.edu/dept/sociology/
Missouri
University of Missouri-Columbia
Contact: Michael Nolan, Interim Chair
rural_sociology@missouri.edu
Department of Rural Sociology
121 Gentry Bldg
Columbia, MO 65211-7040
TEL: 573/882-7451
FAX: 573/882-5127
Areas of Specialization in Department or Program:
Food, Environment and Society, Rural Transitions (Community, Institutional and Social Change)
Website: www.ruralsociology.missouri.edu
New York
Cornell University
Contact: Max Pfeffer, Chair
mjp5@cornell.edu
Department of Development Sociology
Warren Hall
133 Warren Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
TEL: 607/255-1688
FAX: 607/254-2896
Areas of Specialization in Department or Program:
Rural & Environmental Sociology, Community and Regional Sociology, State, Economy and Society, Population and Development, Environmental Manage and Methods of Social Research Development Sociology
North Carolina
North Carolina State University
Contact: Ed Kick
elkick@ncsu.edu
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
162 Harrelson Hall
Raleigh, NC 27695-8107
TEL: 919/513-8301
FAX: 919/515-2610
Areas of Specialization in Department or Program:
Applied Sociology, Work/Industry/Organization Development, Social Change, Comparative Community
Website: http://sasw.chass.ncsu.edu/s&a/index.html
North Dakota
North Dakota State University
Contact: Gary A Goreham
kate.umer@ndsu.nodak.edu
Department of Sociology-Anthropology
PO Box 5075 SU Station
Fargo, ND 58105-5075
TEL: 701/231-8657
FAX: 701/231-1047
Areas of Specialization in Department or Program:
Criminology/Delinquency, Criminal Justice, Medical Sociology, Aging/Social Gerontology, Demography, Applied/Evaluation Research, Marriage/Family, Qualitative and Quantitative Methodology, Theory, Anthropology, Community Development
Website: www.ndsu.nodak.edu/sociology/
University of North Dakota
Contact: Curtis W. Stofferahn
curtis_stofferahn@und.nodak.edu
Department of Sociology
Gillette Hall Room 202
225 Centennial Drive Stop 7136
Grand Forks ND 58202-7136
TEL: 701-777-2187
Areas of Specialization in Department or Program:
No particular program specialization but faculty have specialties in particular areas including rural, environmental, and community.
Website: www.und.edu/dept/soc/
Ohio
Ohio State University
Contact: Joseph F. Donnermeyer
donnermeyer.1@osu.edu
Rural Sociology Program
Department of Human and Community Resource Development
2120 Fyffe Road
Columbus, OH 43210-1067
TEL: 614/292-9167
FAX: 614/292-7007
Areas of Specialization in Department or Program:
Sociology of Agriculture/Natural Resources, Social Change/Development, Community Development
Website: www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~hcrd/rural_sociology/
Website: www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~hcrd/rural_sociology/graduate_program.html
Oregon
Oregon State University
Contact: Lori A. Cramer
lcramer@orst.edu
Department of Sociology
Fairbanks Hall, Room 307
Corvallis, OR 97331-3703
TEL: 541/737-5382
FAX: 541/737-5382
Areas of Specialization in Department or Program:
Environment/Natural Resources, Rural Development, International Development, Family
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania State University
Contact: Steve Smith
smsmith@psu.edu
Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology
103C Armsby Bldg
University Park, PA 16802
TEL: 814/865-5461
FAX: 814/865-3746
Areas of Specialization in Department or Program:
Community, Demography, Sociology of Agriculture, Methods and Statistics, Environment and Natural Resources, Community Development.
Website: www.aers.psu.edu
South Carolina
Clemson University
Contact: Brenda J. Vander Mey
vanmey@clemson.edu
Department of Sociology
132 Brackett Hall
Clemson, SC 29634-1356
TEL: 864/656-3238
FAX: 864/656-1252
South Dakota
South Dakota State University
Contact: Donna J Hess
donna_hess@sdstate.edu
Department of Rural Sociology
226 Scobey Hall
Brookings, SD 57007
TEL: 605/688-4132
FAX: 605/688-6354
Areas of Specialization in Department or Program:
(Undergrad) Criminal Justice, Social Work, Human Services, Human Resources
(Grad) Demography, Social Organization, Social Deviance, Cultural Ecology, Family Studies
Texas
Texas A&M University
Contact: Don Albrecht
donalbrecht@tamu.edu
Department of Rural Sociology
2125 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-2125
TEL: 979/845-9781
FAX: 979/845-8529
Areas of Specialization in Department or Program:
Demography-Human Ecology, Community, Sociology of Agriculture, Sociology of Natural Resources, Race/Ethnicity, Health, Adoption/Difussion, Sociology of Nutrition, Policy Analysis, Social Organization, Environmental Sociology, Social Impact Assessment.
Website: http://ruralsoc.tamu.edu
Sam Houston State University
Contact: Gene L. Theodori
gtheodori@shsu.edu
Department of Sociology
Box 2446
Huntsville, TX 77341-2446
TEL: 936/294-1512
FAX: 936/294-3573
Areas of Specialization in Department or Program:
Community and Natural Resources, Health and Aging, Social Change and Development
Website: http://www.shsu.edu/sociology
Utah
Utah State University
Contact: Richard Krannich
Richard.Krannich@usu.edu
Department of Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology
0730 Old Main Hill
Logan, UT 84322-0730
TEL: 435/797-1230
FAX: 435/797-1240
Areas of Specialization in Department or Program:
Demography, Environmental/Natural Resources, Sociology of Development, Social Problems.
Website: http://www.usu.edu/sswa/
Brigham Young University
Contact: Ralph B. Brown
ralph_brown@byu.edu
Department of Sociology
800 SWKT
Provo, UT 84602
TEL: 801/378-3242
FAX: 801/378-4888
Areas of Specialization in Department or Program:
Macro-Comparative, Comparative Family, Community and Rural Studies
Website: http://fhss.byu.edu/soc/
Washington
Washington State University
Contact: Ray Jussaume
rajussaume@wsu.edu
Department of Community and Rural Sociology
PO Box 644006
23 Wilson-Short Hall
Pullman, WA 99164-4006
TEL: 509/335-8623
FAX: 509/335-2125
Areas of Specialization in Department or Program:
Community Development, Sustainable Agri-Food Systems, Global and Cross-cultural Studies
Website: www.crs.wsu.edu
Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin
Contact: Leann Tigges
lmtigges@wisc.edu
Department of Rural Sociology
350 Agricultural Hall
1450 Linden Drive
Madison, WI 53706
TEL: 608/262-1510
FAX: 608/262-6022
Areas of Specialization in Department or Program:
Community Analysis/Development, Rural Population Studies, Sociology of Agriculture/Sociology of Natural Resources, Social Stratification, Sociology of Development, Sociology of Science, Environmental Sociology, Race/Ethnic Minority Relations, Economic Sociology
Website: www.drs.wisc.edu
Canada
University of Alberta
Contact: Ellen Goddard, Chair
Naomi.krogman@ualberta.ca
or debra.davidson@ualberta.ca
Department of Rural Economy
Rural Sociology Program
5-15 General Services Building
University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB T6G 2H1
CANADA
TEL: 780/492-4225
FAX: 780/492-0268
Areas of Specialization in Department or Program:
Natural Resource Sociology, Forest Sociology, Development, Institutions, Social Impacts of Resource Development
Website: www.re.ualberta.ca
University of Guelph
Contact: Ronald Hinch, Chair
dcarter@uoguelph.ca
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1
CANADA
TEL: 519/824-4120 ext 3894
FAX: 519/837-9561
Areas of Specialization in Department or Program:
Sociology, Women in Development, Third World Development, International Development


