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8th Annual Rural Studies Conference

8th Annual Rural Studies Conference8th Annual Rural Studies Conference8th Annual Rural Studies Conference

"Inequality and Inequity In Rural Society"

Conference Schedule

Conference SChedule

Thursday, October 21st

4:30-5:45 PM EST

Keynote Speaker

Joshua Sbicca, PhD, Associate Professor of Sociology at Colorado State University

Unchaining Food Justice: Racial Capitalism, Prison Agriculture, and the Hope of Abolition 

Zoom: https://psu.zoom.us/j/94378231164 


Friday October 22nd

8:00-9:15 AM EST

Session 1: Rural Youth and Education

Zoom:  https://psu.zoom.us/j/95305929150


Carolyn Adrien, The Pennsylvania State University, The Relationship Between Orphanages and Child Fostering: Evidence from Haiti


Natalie Downes & Philip Roberts, University of Canberra, Mapping Rural (Education) Fields


Mckenzie Carvalho, Mississippi State University, The Urban-Rural Gap in Financial Literacy: Features and Implications


Edith-Marie Green, University of Mississippi, Comparing Non-English Language Education in Mississippi with Sociodemographic Characteristics


9:15-10:30 EST

Session 2: Ecology and Resource Management Governance

Zoom: https://psu.zoom.us/j/94550841658


Grete Gansauer, Montana State University, Regionalism and equity in rural public drinking water provision: A case study from Montana, USA


Hannah Whitley, The Pennsylvania State University, (Dis)trust and Disillusionment in the State of Jefferson: How a Region's Separatist State of Mind Influences Collaborative Water Governance


Mariam Taleb, The Pennsylvania State University, Ecologically unequal exchange of biological invasions: A conceptual model of structural mechanisms


Anyor Pascal, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Farmers' Awareness and Perception of the Anti-Open Grazing prohibition and ranches establishment of Benue State


10:30-11:45 EST

Session 3: Gendered Divisions and Inequities

Zoom: https://psu.zoom.us/j/94683223015


Damilola Adereti, South Dakota State University, Time Use Differences and Perceived Stress among Rural Men and Women in Nigeria


Hannah Budge, Newcastle University, “You don’t look like farmers,” an examination of women in agriculture in the Scottish and Maritime Canadian islands


Mawuli Nutsugah, CSIR-Savanna Agricultural Research Institute, Gendered access to farmland acquisition: The case of smallholders farmers in northern Ghana


Sovanneary Huot, The Pennsylvania State University, Gender Aspects of Wild Food Plant Production, Utilization and Scaling in Northwestern Cambodia



12:00-1:00 PM EST

Panel: Careers in Rural Studies

Zoom: https://psu.zoom.us/j/92498288619


Featuring: 


Annelise Hagedorn, PhD, Instructor at Blue Ridge Community College 


Matt M. Brooks, PhD, Postdoc at McGill University


Celize Christy, MS., Next Generation Coordinator at Practical Farmers of Iowa


Danielle Ely, PhD, Health Statistician at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


1:00-1:30 PM EST

Digital Poster Session 


Marcela Carvajal-Suarez, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, An intersectional description of Latina immigrants working on cattle feedyards in the United States

Zoom:  https://psu.zoom.us/j/96173240989  


Kasey Vangelov, University of Maryland-College Park, Culture and Religion in Appalachia: Implications for Policy-Making

Zoom: https://psu.zoom.us/j/92125184648  

  

1:30-2 :45 PM EST

Session 4: Methods in Rural Studies Research and Application

Zoom:  https://psu.zoom.us/j/98986434842


Eric Swanson, Ohio State University, Moving Beyond the Rural-Urban Binary


Makena Nail, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, The Use of Social Media, Newspapers, and Radio in Rural Community Engagement: A Delphi Panel of Four Rural Tennessee Communities


Mindy Jewell Price, University of California-Berkeley, Why community-based participatory research isn’t “good enough” in Indigenous contexts


Catherine Sanders, University of Georgia, Identity-Oriented Culturally-Responsive Evaluation for Behavior Change Intervention Strategies: A Conceptual Framework

  

Session 5: Rural Health and Well-being 

Zoom: https://psu.zoom.us/j/93179151371


Julie Jesmer, Washington State University, Revitalization, Realignment, and Reemergence: A project proposal for the New Mexico Behavioral Health Institute Farm Program


Jacqueline Aenlle, University of Florida, The Use of New Media Communication Technologies to Communicate About Rural Mental Health


Jason Semprini, University of Iowa, Treating a Public Health Crisis for Rural Moms—A Comparative Analysis of Four Rural States Addressing Maternal Opioid Misuse with Medicaid Innovation Models


Jorden Jackson, The Pennsylvania State University, The Effect of Sexual Violence on Reproductive Decisions and Outcomes in the Philippines, 1993-2017

  

2:45-4:00 PM

Session 6: Social Justice and Transformation in Food and Agriculture 

Zoom: https://psu.zoom.us/j/93969860251


Abigail Darwin, University of Georgia, Setting the Table for a New Rural Food Access Approach


Carina Isbell, The University of Vermont, Seed Systems & (De)Commodification: Insight from Seed Growers in Vermont


Morgan Jenatton, L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, Marseille, France), El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR, Chiapas, Mexico), Radical learning for a more just agroecological transformation: the cases of bread in France and tortillas in Mexico 


Nicole Nunoo, Virgina Tech, Examining the Role of Collective Agency in Multi-Sector Advocacy for Racial Justice in the Food System: A case of the National Black Food and Justice Alliance


4:30-5:45 PM EST

Keynote Speaker 

Linda Lobao, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Rural Sociology at Ohio State University

Spatial Inequality, Local Governments, and Community Well-Being across Rural and Urban America

Zoom:  https://psu.zoom.us/j/98082355490 

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