Research

Rural Mobility - Migration, Emotion, Place Attachment

Why do we stay in, leave, or return to our rural home places? Research in this area includes: Rural Stayers, The Vermont Roots Migration Project, Who are the New Vermonters?, and a set of studies across rural America and Europe. 

Working Landscapes

This research explores the relationships between the production of rural space, everyday interactions with 'nature,' and the meanings specific places hold. Specifically, the research has produced insight into the ways rural landscapes are perceived, governed, performed, lived within, and narrated.

Rural Youth, Well-Being, and Environment

These studies focused on how youth produce social lives within everyday rural landscapes, and how nature is put to work on disciplining and providing care to adjudicated young people.

Professional Memberships

American Association of Geographers
American Geographical Society
Rural Sociological Society
International Association for Society and Natural Resources
Center for Research on Vermont