Theresa Selfa
Assistant Professor, Sociology
Development Sociology, Cornell University PhD, 2001
Interests: rural, environmental, agricultural and development sociology

Theresa Selfa, Assistant Professor of Sociology, has expertise in rural, environmental, agricultural and development sociology, with research experience in Brazil, Philippines, Europe and the US. She was a post-doctoral associate in Washington State on a project examining alternative agriculture and food systems. She recently completed research examining environmental attitudes and behaviors toward land management in Devon, England. She is currently working as the lead social scientist on an interdisciplinary water quality project assessing impacts of farmers' management behavior on water quality in an agricultural watershed in Central Kansas, and as the lead social scientist in a new interdisciplinary program in Agricultural Resource and Environment Management. She is the PI on a DOE-funded study on the Impacts of Biofuels on Rural Communities in Kansas and Iowa. Her work has been published in Society and Natural Resources, Environment and Planning A, Journal of Rural Studie/, and Agriculture and Human Values.