Affiliated Researchers: Social Justice

Mark Brennan

Professor, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: Community Development, Ireland, Youth, Social Support, Art

Melissa Wright

Department Head, Geography
Top research keywords: Mexico, Geography, Protest, Politics, Social Justice

Andrew Mowen

Professor, Recreation, Park and Tourism Management
Top research keywords: Recreation, Leisure, Services, Public, Participation

Samantha Powers

Assistant Professor of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Management, Division of Social Sciences (Abington)
Top research keywords: Recreation, Pandemics, Social Capital, Staff, Public Perception

Juliet Pinto

Associate Professor, Journalism
Top research keywords: News, Coverage, Journalism, Social Construction, Latin America

Carter Hunt

Associate Professor, Anthropology
Top research keywords: Tourism, Ecotourism, Resident, Nature-based Tourism, Tourism Development

Robert Chiles

Associate Professor, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: Research Ethics, Big Data, Qualitative Research, Meat, Cellular Agriculture

Melanie Hetzel-Riggin

Professor, School of Humanities & Social Sciences (Behrend)
Top research keywords: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders, Dissociative Disorders, Trauma, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Wounds And Injuries

Kai Schafft

Professor, Education Policy Studies
Top research keywords: Poverty, Economics, District, Rural Community, Natural Gas

Brian Thiede

Associate Professor, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: Climate, Poverty, Household, Human Migration, Indigenous Forest

Lauren McPhillips

Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Top research keywords: Stormwater, Denitrification, Watershed, Infrastructure, Urban Ecosystem

Jennifer Wagner

Assistant Professor, School of Engineering Design and Innovation
Top research keywords: DNA, Privacy, Genetic Testing, Industry, Health

Stephanie Buechler

Top research keywords: Livelihood, Mexico, Global Change, Environmental Policy, Water

Clare Hinrichs

Professor, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: Food, Bioenergy, Research Ethics, Farmer, Agriculture

Joshua Trey Barnett

Assistant Professor in Communication Arts & Sciences (College of the Liberal Arts), Communication Arts and Sciences
Top research keywords: Transgender Persons, Veterans, Rhetoric, Coexistence, Earthlings

Brian King

Professor, Geography
Top research keywords: Republic Of South Africa, Africa, Livelihood, Health, Human Immunodeficiency Virus

Lindsay Fernández-Rhodes

Assistant Professor, Biobehavioral Health
Top research keywords: Hispanic Americans, Menarche, Genomics, Single Nucleotide Polymorphism, Genome-Wide Association Study

Chingwen Cheng

Stuckeman School Director

Erik Foley

Director of Sustainability, Smeal College of Business

Mark Ortiz

Presidential Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Geography

Lorraine Jones

Research Assistant, EnvironMentors

Bronwen Powell

Associate Professor, Geography
Top research keywords: Forests, Food, Diet, Morocco, Tanzania