Jess Gilbert
340B Agricultural Hall
(608) 262-9530
gilbert@ssc.wisc.edu
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Office Hours: T 11-12 and by appt. (Fall'09)
Selected Publications:
J. Gilbert, ed., 2003. Special Issue of Agricultural History (77, 2) on "Minority Land and Community Security."
Gilbert, J. 2002. "Low Modernism and the Agrarian New Deal: A Different Kind of State." Pp. 129-46 in Jane Adams (ed.), Fighting for the Farm: Rural America Transformed. University of Pennsylvania Press.
Gilbert, J., G. Sharp, and S. Felin. 2002. "The Loss and Persistence of Black-Owned Farms and Farmland: Review and Implications." Southern Rural Sociology, 18(2): 1-30.
Education:
Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1983
Areas of Interest:
Class Analysis and Historical Change
Community and Environmental Sociology
Comparative/Historical Sociology
General Social Theory
Political Sociology
Race and Ethnic Studies
Sociology of Agriculture and Food Systems
Sociology of Knowledge
Affiliations:
Community and Environmental Sociology
Land Tenure Center
Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies