Former CIAS Directors & Staff

    Michel Wattiaux, Department of Animal and Dairy Science (interim)

    Michael Bell, Department of Community and Environmental Sociology

    Shared leadership team: 

    • Jack Kloppenberg, Department of Community and Environmental Sociology,
    • Russ Groves, Department of Entomology,
    • Daniel Kleinman, Department of Community and Environmental Sociology

    Michelle Miller, CIAS staff (interim)

    Brent McCown, Department of Horticulture

    Doug Maxwell, Department of Plant Pathology (interim)

    Lydia Zepeda, School of Human Ecology

    George “Steve” Stevenson, CIAS staff (interim)

    Richard Klemme, founding director, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics+

    Former CIAS Staff

    Many academic and university staff have served at CIAS since 1989. We also include our staff from our affiliated unit and office mates, the Program on Agricultural Technology Studies.

    Senior staff, most of whom served for ten years or more

    • Sandy Bennett
    • Nancy Carlisle
    • Cris Carusi
    • Dick Cates
    • Michele Gale-Sinex
    • Trish Haza
    • Doug Jackson-Smith
    • Marcy Ostrom
    • Vanessa Herald
    • Kathy Martin-Taylor
    • Ruth McNair
    • Steve Stevenson
    • Kari Strauss
    • Jen Taylor
    • Selma Troyanoski

    Project staff, some of whom served for over ten years

    • Nadia Alber
    • Elizabeth Bird
    • Brianne Boettcher
    • Lori Compas
    • Lindsey Day Farnsworth
    • Betsy Didrickson
    • Kathleen Duffy
    • Daniella Echeverria
    • Brianna Fiene
    • Jacob Grace
    • Kat Griffith
    • Lael Grigg
    • Linda Hart
    • Jane Kleven
    • Jessica Kozlowski
    • My LinhDo
    • Sarah Lloyd
    • Kelly Maynard
    • Steve Neary
    • Pam Porter
    • Anne-Marie Puryear
    • Matt Raboin
    • Gregg Sanford
    • Don Schuster
    • Erin Silva
    • Rick Strickland
    • Sara Tedeschi
    • Camilla Vargas
    • Doug Wubben