Ann Tickamyer
I'm the Professor Emerita of Rural Sociology and Demography at the College of Agriculture Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University.
My research interests focus on gender and development, spatial inequalities, and rural poverty, livelihood practices, and welfare provision in the U.S. and the global South. I have published numerous articles and five books on these topics, including:
Rural Poverty in the United States, edited with Jennifer Sherman and Jennifer Warlick (Columbia University Press, 2017)
Power, Change, and Gender Relations in Rural Java: A Tale of Two Villages authored with Siti Kusujiarti (Ohio University Press, 2012)
Economic Restructuring and Family-Well-Being in Rural America, edited with Kristin Smith (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011) The Sociology of Spatial Inequality, edited with Linda Lobao and Gregory Hooks, SUNY Press, 2007
Communities of Work: Rural Restructuring in Local and Global Context, edited with William Falk and Michael Schulman (Ohio University Press, 2003)
Education
- 1979 PhD - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, Major: Sociology
1973 MA - University of Maryland, College Park, MD, Major: Sociology
1971 BA with high honors - University of Maryland, College Park, MD, Major: Sociology; Minor: Psychology
1966-68 Carleton College, Northfield, MN
Source: The Pennsylvania State University
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