Expertise

Sudy Interests: Food Safety Governance

Communities
Agriculture, Agriculture Business and Management, Economics, Sociology
Degrees
PhD, Michigan State University, Sociology, 2006
MS, Michigan State University, Resource Development, 1997
BS, Michigan State University, Social Science, 1992
Keywords
agriculture food safety
Honors

Third Place, Graduate Student Poster Competition (Agricultural Legacies in Southwest Michigan: Perspectives on Socio-Environmental Change), Victor Institute for Responsible Land Development and Use, (Michigan State University Extension), 2004-2004

Honors Society of the Phi Kappa Phi (Academic Honor), National Society, 2003-2007

First Place, Graduate Student Poster Competition (Agricultural Land Use Transformations in Southwestern Michigan), Victor Institute for Responsible Land Development and Use (Michigan State University), 2003-2003

Honorable Mention, Poster Competition ("The Extraordinary Cherry:" Specialty Crop Production In A Changing World), Rural Sociological Society, 2001-2001

Graduate Office Fellowship, The Graduate School (Michigan State University), 1997-2003

Graduate Recruiting Fellowship, Department of Resource Development (Michigan State University), 1993-1994

Associations
American Sociological Association
Phi Kappa Phi
Rural Sociological Society