Faculty and Staff

Beverlyn Allen
• Community studies and devleopment
• Social organization and social inequality

J. Gordon Arbuckle, Jr.
• Agriculture and conservation practices
• Biorenewables
• Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll

Jan Flora
• Understanding decision making involving interplay of advocacy coalitions involving local, national, and international institutional actors (civil society, market, and state) around land use, water quality, decentralized administration of bio-reserves, mining issues
• Rural development/capacity building involving food and natural resource issues as part of the problem and solutions
• Agriculture and the environment; using visioning to identify advocacy coalitions around alternative futures in watersheds

Betty Wells
• Agriculture and women, leadership and decision making
• Diversity as it relates to food and natural resources
• Land tenure (men and women)
• Women and natural resources, coalition building

Lois Wright Morton
• Landowner decision making on Iowa Grasslands
• Food security, food insecurity, and hunger
• Resident-led watershed management, building civic communities
• CD-DIAL - community surveys

Paul Lasley
• Agriculture
• Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll

Other Sociology faculty with related research but no explicit extension appointment
• Carmen Bain (rural institutions, food systems, biorenewables)
• Cornelia Flora (food systems and environment)
• Marta Maldonado (Hispanic agricultural labor)
• Steve Sapp (food safety, CAFOs and impacts to community)
• William Woodman (ethics of bioengineering food)

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