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Author:

Smith, Lindsay A

Title:

FROM COW BELLES TO WAGNS: FACTORS THAT HAVE INFLUENCED THE CREATION OF WOMEN INITIATED AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES

Graduate Program:

Rural Sociology

Keywords:

women agriculture organizations
social movement theories

File:

Download Cow_Belles_to_WAgNs__2_.pdf

Committee Members:

Kathryn Jo Brasier, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Ward, Melissa

Title:

Using Local Demographic Characteristics to Predict Admittance and Enrollment of Underrepresented Applicants in a Midwest Flagship University

Graduate Program:

Rural Sociology

Keywords:

underrepresented
higher education
diversity
admittance
enrollment

File:

Download Ward_Thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Kathryn Jo Brasier, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Unroe, Colleen Elizabeth

Title:

CONDITIONS AND CONSTRAINTS RELATED TO COLLABORATIVE MANAGEMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES IN PENNSYLVANIA

Graduate Program:

Rural Sociology

Keywords:

collaborative governance
collaborative natural resource managemnent
environment
environmental governance

File:

Download Unroe_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Kathryn Jo Brasier, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Leland Luther Glenna, Committee Member
Theodore Roberts Alter, Committee Member

Author:

Wildermuth, Grace Amanda

Title:

Marcellus Shale Landowner Coalitions: Form, Function, and Impact

Graduate Program:

Rural Sociology

Keywords:

Marcellus Shale
Community-based Natural Resource Managment
Cooperatives
Social Movements
Lease Negotiations
Shale Gas

File:

Download Wildermuth_Thesis_-_FINAL_.pdf

Committee Members:

Kathryn Jo Brasier, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Leland Luther Glenna, Committee Member
Carolyn Sachs, Committee Member

Author:

Harbor, Lucy Caroline

Title:

CULTURE, CAPITAL, AND COMMUNITY CHANGE: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY OF THE IMPACTS OF TOURISM IN SANTIAGO ATITLÁN, GUATEMALA

Graduate Program:

Recreation and Parks

Keywords:

tourism
ethnography
Guatemala
Lake Atitlan
community capital
globalization
development

File:

Download HarborThesisPSU.pdf

Committee Members:

Carter A Hunt, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kathryn Jo Brasier, Committee Member
Peter Renton Allison, Committee Member

Author:

Hancock, Matthew

Title:

Armed Conflict and Childhood Food Security: The Association between Exposure to Conflict and Childhood Nutrition in West Africa: 1998-2008

Graduate Program:

Rural Sociology

Keywords:

Conflict
Food Security
West Africa

File:

Download Thesis_Final_ETD_Submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Brian Clemens Thiede, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kathryn Jo Brasier, Program Head/Chair
Elizabeth Ransom, Committee Member
Leif Jensen, Committee Member

Author:

Whitley, Hannah Terese

Title:

Power, Privilege, and "Playing in the Dirt": An Intersectional Exploration of Women's Agricultural Experiences in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Rural Sociology

Keywords:

historically marginalized agriculturalists
intersectionality
participatory action research
Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh
social sustainability
urban agriculture
women farmers
critical food systems scholarship
qualitative research

File:

Download Whitley-_RSOC_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Kathryn J. Brasier, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Elizabeth Ransom, Committee Member
Kathleen J D Sexsmith, Committee Member
Kathryn Jo Brasier, Program Head/Chair
Kathryn J. Brasier, Committee Member

Author:

Huot, Sovanneary

Title:

GENDER AND LEADERSHIP OF AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVES: THE CASE OF CAMBODIA

Graduate Program:

Rural Sociology

Keywords:

Gender
leadership
agriculture
women’s empowerment
cooperatives
Cambodia

File:

Download Huot-thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Leif Jensen, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ann R. Tickamyer, Committee Member
Ricky M. Bates, Committee Member
David R. Ader, Committee Member
Kathryn Jo Brasier, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Hoffelmeyer, Michaela

Title:

Sexuality and Sustainable Agriculture: Queer Farmers in the Northeastern U.S.

Graduate Program:

Rural Sociology

Keywords:

Agriculture Sustainability Farming LGBTQ

File:

Download Hoffelmeyer_Thesis_AESE_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Kathleen J D Sexsmith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Clare Hinrichs, Committee Member
Kathryn Jo Brasier, Committee Member
Kathryn Jo Brasier, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Smith, Effie

Title:

Livelihoods in the Balance: Haitians, Haitian-Dominicans and Precarious Work in the Dominican Republic

Graduate Program:

Rural Sociology

Keywords:

Dominican Republic
Haiti
Migrant Workers
Precarious Work
Precarious Livelihoods
Batey

File:

Download Smith_Effie_Masters_Thesis_Rural_Sociology_July_2020.pdf

Committee Members:

Kathleen J D Sexsmith, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Leif Jensen, Committee Member
Rebecca Tarlau, Committee Member
Kathryn Jo Brasier, Program Head/Chair