Articles

The Elephant in the Room: Absentee Landowners and Conservation Management (with Zhao Marcarelli and Stephanie Malin), Land Use Policy (2013)

In this article, we provide a synthesis of the peer-reviewed literature and state and...

 

Absentee Landowners and Conservation Programs: Mind the Gap (with Stephanie Malin and Brian Gentry), Land Use Policy (2012)
 

Keeping Them in Their Place: Migrant Women Workers in Spain’s Strawberry Industry (with Susan E. Mannon, Christy M. Glass, and Claudia Radel), International Journal of the Sociology of Agriculture and Food (2012)

The idea of guest-worker migration has resurfaced in recent decades as the global agri-food industry...

 

Labor migration and gendered agricultural relations: The feminization of agriculture in the ejidal sector of Calakmul, Mexico (with Claudia Radel, Birgit Schmook, Jamie McEvoy, and Crisol Mendez), Journal of Agrarian Change (2012)
 

Attempting Community Development Among Toxic Tailings: An Interactional Case Study of Community Health and Extralocal Institutions (with Stephanie Malin), Community Development Journal (2011)
 

Land Tenure in the US: Power, Gender, and Consequences for Conservation Decision Making (with Sandra Marquart-Pyatt), Agriculture and Human Values (2011)
 

Digging the Dugway?: Understanding Involvement in Local Politics (with Sandra Marquart-Pyatt), SSWA Faculty Publications (2009)
 

Review of: We Share Walls. Language, Land, and Gender in Berber Morocco , SSWA Faculty Publications (2009)
 

Comparative Institutions and Management Resiliency in Latin American Small-Scale Fisheries (with Brandon Chapman and Douglas Jackson-Smith), SSWA Faculty Publications (2008)
 

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Trust, the Democratic Process, and Involvement in a Rural Community (with Sandra Marquart-Pyatt), Rural Sociology (2008)

A number of dimensions of the democratic political process are important for understanding civic communities...

 

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Identification with Resource-Based Occupations and Desire for Tourism: Are the Two Necessarily Inconsistent? (with Richard S. Krannich and Joan Brehm), Society and Natural Resources (2006)

Occupational identity is frequently used to explain why rural residents traditionally involved in natural resource-based...

 

Keepin’ This Little Town Going: Gender and Volunteerism in Rural America (with Susan Mannon), SSWA Faculty Publications (2006)
 

Rural Tourism and Gendered Nuances (with Richard S. Karnnich, Joan M. Brehm, and Carla Koons Trentelman), SSWA Faculty Publications (2005)
 

They Make HOW Much? Investigating Faculty Salaries to Examine Gender Inequalities, SSWA Faculty Publications (2005)
 

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Review of: Taking Stands: Gender and the Sustainability of Rural Communities, Society and Natural Resources (2004)

In this study of a northern Vancouver island, Maureen Reed examines forestry issues from the...

 

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The New Landform’s Here! The New Landform’s Here! We’re Somebody Now!! The Role of Discursive Practices on Place Identity, Rural Sociology (2004)

On the border of western Iowa, a new landform—the “Loess Hills,” is being created. While...

 

The Role of Sociologists in Evaluation of a Pest Management Tool (with Steve Padgitt, Carol Pilcher, and Wendy Wintersteen), SSWA Faculty Publications (2002)
 

Integrated Crop Management: The Other Precision Agriculture (with Steve Padgitt, Wendy Wintersteen, and Eric Imerman), SSWA Faculty Publications (2001)
 

Rationality and Solidarities: The Social Organization of Common Property Resources in the Imdrhas Valley of Morocco (with Michael M. Bell), SSWA Faculty Publications (2000)
 

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Review of: Choices and Chances: Sociology for Everyday Life, Rural Sociology (2000)

Choices and Chances is part supplemental introductory sociology textbook and part self-help program. The authors...

 

Evaluation of Extension’s Importance to Agribusinesses: A Case Study of Iowa (with Wendy Wintersteen and Steven C. Padgitt), SSWA Faculty Publications (1999)
 

Extension’s Portfolio for the 21st Century: A Place for One-on-One Consultations (with Steven C. Padgitt and Wendy Wintersteen), SSWA Faculty Publications (1999)
 

Iowa State University Extension: Evaluation of Programs and Services offered to Iowa’s Turfgrass, Nursery, and Landscape Plant Installation and Maintenance Industries (with Jeffrey K. Iles, Steven C. Padgitt, and Wendy K. Wintersteen), SSWA Faculty Publications (1998)
 

Teaching Old Dogs Survival Tricks: A Case Study in Promoting Integrated Crop Management (with Steven C. Padgitt and Kay Connelly), SSWA Faculty Publications (1997)
 

Farmers’ Attitudes and Behavior Toward Sustainable Agriculture (with Peter F. Korsching and James E. Malia), SSWA Faculty Publications (1996)
 

Importance of Community Ethnic Background in Community Activeness (with Timothy Borich and Peter F. Korsching), SSWA Faculty Publications (1993)
 

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Gender, Inequality, Research Methods, Innovative Techniques for Teaching Sociological Concepts (2006)

Eighty techniques for teaching basic sociological ideas in courses throughout the curriculum, especially high school...

 

Social Change and Well-Being in Western Amenity-Growth Communities (with Richard S. Krannich and Joan Brehm), SSWA Faculty Publications (2006)
 

They Make How Much? Investigating Faculty Salaries to Examine Gender Inequalities, SSWA Faculty Publications (2006)
 

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Tourism and Natural Amenity Development: Real Opportunities? (with Richard S. Krannich), Challenges for Rural America in the Twenty-First Century (2003)

The mountains, forests, rivers and lakes, open spaces, and scenic vistas that characterize portions of...

 

Making Sustainable Agriculture the New Conventional Agriculture: Social Change and Sustainability (with Steven C. Padgitt), SSWA Faculty Publications (1994)