Thesis Awards

Elizabeth Pickard

Syracuse University

Gentrification of Agriculture in the Northeastern United States: Exploring the Role of Class among First Generation Farmers

Hazel Velasco Palacios

The Pennsylvania State University

Farmer Field Schools, Food Security, and Gender: Opportunities and Challenges in Experiential Learning with Lenca Smallholders in Rural Honduras

Dissertation Awards

Jenny Melo Velasco

University of Missouri

Digital Agricultural Technologies in Latin America

Carolyn F. Reyes

The Pennsylvania State University

Mining our Hopes and Dreams: Large-scale Mines and Rural Youth Outcomes in Peru

Forrest W. Stagner

The Pennsylvania State University

Toward a Critical Theory of Socio-ecological Resilience: Livestock Management for Climate Change Adaptation in Zambia

Feinuo Sun

University at Albany, SUNY

Examining Rural-Urban Differences in Opioid Crisis with a Spatiotemporal Perspective

Early Career Awards

Renata Moreno-Quintero

Universidad Autónoma de Occidente, Cali, Colombia

Opportunities and Challenges for Citizen Participation in the Energy Transition in Colombia: Policy Inputs from a Rural Community in Jamundí, Colombia

Kathleen Sexsmith

The Pennsylvania State University

Assessing Pennsylvania Seasonal Farm Labor Camps: A Comparison of H-2A and non H-2A Farms

Ryan Thomson

Auburn University

Cultural Heritage and Climate Change Impacts on Gullah/Geechee Heir Property

Lawrence Busch Student Research Award

Margiana Petersen-Rockney

University of California Berkeley

“Water is the Blood of the Land” Climate Change, Conservation, and Conflict among Northern California Farmers