PRI Researchers Present at Rural Sociological Society 2009 Annual Meeting

PRI faculty and students participated in the 72nd Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association in Madison, Wisconsin, July 30-August 2, 2009.

Awards

Diane McLaughlin received the 2009 Excellence in Instruction award, given for "outstanding rural-oriented teaching by a RSS member at the graduate and/or undergraduate level."

Sessions

Session 34: Studies of Youth and Young Adults in Rural America
Panelists: Anastasia Snyder, Ohio State University; Diane McLaughlin, Pennsylvania State University; Mary Ann Demi, Pennsylvania State University; Devorah Shamah, Oregon State University; Fred Lorenz, Iowa State University; Nena Stracuzzi, University of NH-Carsey Institute; Kai Schafft, Pennsylvania State University

Session 64: Determinants of Food Security and Health
Employment Characteristics Related to Transitions into Food Insecurity among Low-Income Rural Families (Alisha J. Coleman-Jensen, Pennsylvania State University)

Session 102: Linking School, Community and Agriculture
Pennsylvania Farm-to-School Programs and the Articulation of Local Context (Kai Arthur Schafft, Pennsylvania State University; C. Clare Hinrichs, Pennsylvania State University; J. Dara Bloom, Pennsylvania State University)

Session 126: Networking, Mentorship and Success in Rural Sociology
Panelists: Dreamal I. Worthen, Florida A&M University; Diane K. McLaughlin, Pennsylvania State University; Kenneth L. Robinson, Clemson University; Tim Slack, Louisiana State University

Session 150: Pursuing Food Security: Balancing Consumer Access, Producer Sovereignty, and Food System Alterity
Impacts of Agricultural Technologies on Food Security and Economic Prosperity for Farm Households in Guinea and Ghana (Leland Glenna, Pennsylvania State University; Wenda Bauchspies, Georgia Tech University; David Ader, Pennsylvania State University; Abou Traore, University of Kankan; Rita Afiavi Agboh-Noameshie, Africa Rice Center)

Session 186: Health Practices in Rural Areas
Teenage Fertility: Does Place, Race, or Poverty Matter? (Carla Shoff, Pennsylvania State University)

Session 218: Work and Self-Provisioning in Varying Contexts
Participation in the Informal Economy: Does Rural Residence Matter? (Leif Jensen, Pennsylvania State University; Ann R. Tickamyer, Ohio University; Tim Slack, Louisiana State University)

Session 238: Networks and Engagement in Communities
Long Distance Commuting and Civic Engagement (David L. Brown, Cornell University; Tony Champion, Newcastle University, United Kingdom; Kai A. Schafft, Pennsylvania State University)

Session 272: Rural Migration, Gender and the Ecology of Community
Leaving Home: The Timing and Initial Living Arrangements of Rural Emerging Adults (Mary Ann Demi, The Pennsylvania State University)

Session 300: Energy Expansion and Social Change
Tracking Community Change: Setting the Stage in the Marcellus Shale Natural Gas Play (Kathryn J. Brasier, Penn State University; Richard C. Stedman, Cornell University; Diane K. McLaughlin, Penn State University; Matthew Filteau, Penn State University; Jeffrey Jacquet, Jacquet Consulting)

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