Utah State University
Department of SSW&A
0730 Old Main Hill
Logan, UT 84322-0730
Tel. 435-797-1230
Fax 435-797-1240
ann.johns@usu.edu

department of
Sociology, Social Work & Anthropology

Old Main 216H
(435) 797-0582
doug.jackson-smith@usu.edu

Douglas Jackson-Smith, (Ph.D University of Wisconsin). Associate Professor. Dr. Jackson-Smith joined the faculty at Utah State University in the summer of 2001. He currently serves as the Director of Graduate Studies in the Sociology Program at USU. He received his BS degree (Rural Sociology) at Cornell University, and his MS (Sociology), MA (Agricultural Economics), and PhD degrees at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

His principal teaching and research interests include the sociology of agriculture, natural resource and the environment, rural community studies, economic sociology, and applied research methods. He is also interested in international development, social studies of science and technology, and political sociology.

Currently he is engaged in research focusing on dynamics of economic and technological change in the dairy industry and their effects on farm families, rural communities, and the environment. He has also developed methods to track the spatial dimensions of rural and agricultural land use changes, and has worked with rural governments to develop locally appropriate land use and agricultural plans.

He was raised in Salt Lake City, Utah, but spent 20 years living and working in California, Indonesia, New York, Nepal, and Wisconsin before coming ‘home’ to be closer to his extended family and a grander and more open landscape. He and his wife (Mary), and three daughters (Amy, Emma and Rose) live in Richmond, Utah, where they have a small farm with sheep, chickens, barn cats, bunnies, a dog, and goldfish.

Before coming to USU, he served as Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology and Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He also was Co-Director of the Program on Agricultural Technology Studies (a research and extension unit of the College of Agriculture) which examined the impacts of technological change and public policies on farm families in Wisconsin (see www.wisc.edu/pats).

Vita for Dr. Jackson-Smith