Rick Welsh joined the Department of Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition as a Professor of Food Studies in August, 2012. Prior to taking this position he worked at Clarkson University as a Professor of Sociology. Previous positions have included Policy Analyst with the Henry A. Wallace Institute for Alternative Agriculture and the Director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program for the Southern Region. He also serves as editor-in-chief for the journal Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems published by Cambridge University Press. His research and teaching focus on social change and development with emphases on agri-food systems, science and technology studies and environmental sociology.
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:
Ph.D. in Development Sociology from Cornell University (1995)
Master of Science in Food and Resource Economics from the University of Florida (1998)
Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the College of William and Mary (1983)
AFFILIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS:
Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society
American Sociological Association (Sections on Environment and Technology & Science, Knowledge and Technology)
Rural Sociological Society (Sociology of Agriculture Interest Group)
Society for Social Studies of Science