Contact Dr. Leslie Hossfeld Office: SB211-C
2002 Ph.D. Sociology, North Carolina State University 1986 M.S. Sociology, University of Mississippi 1983 B.A. History, UNCW |
Professional AssociationsPresident Elect - Southern Sociological Society Vice President: Sociologists for Women in Societ Chair, Committee on Sociological Practice: Southern Sociological Society Co-Chair ASA Task Force for Institutionalizing Public Sociologies North Carolina Sociological Association Society for the Study of Social Problems Research Associate: International Gender and Trade Network Editorial Board: Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems and Development Council Member: ASA Section on Sociological Practice and Public Sociology Program Committee: ASA Spivack Program in Applied Social Research and Social Policy
GrantsNorth Carolina Community Development Initiative Innovation Fund $50,000 Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation $155,000 Golden LEAF Foundation $425,000 Blue Cross Blue Shields NC Foundation $200,000 Conservation Fund Resourceful Communities $7000 USDA AFRI $100,000 USDA NIFA $50,000 Southern SARE $10,000 Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Association $50,000 NC Department of Health and Human Services $35,000 |
Specialty AreasEconomic Development Poverty in Southeastern North Carolina Public Sociology Community-based Participatory Research Job Loss and Economic Restructuring
Courses TaughtSociology of Poverty Rural Sociology Population Race and Ethnic Relations Community Development Public Sociology Seminar
Current Research InterestsSoutheastern North Carolina Food Systems Project (SENCFS) Feast Down East Poverty Reduction in North Carolina Worker Displacement Gender and Job Loss |
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