Rick Welsh

Specialization

Food and Agricultural Policy. Technological change in agriculture. Organic agriculture. Genetically modified organisms (agricultural biotechnology). Rural development; Livestock industry. Anaerobic digesters. Wetland preservation;

Rick Welsh joined the Department of Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition as a Professor of Food Studies in August, 2012. Welsh is also a faculty member at our Maxwell School. Prior to taking this position he worked at Clarkson University as a Professor of Sociology. Previous positions have included Policy Analyst with the Henry A. Wallace Institute for Alternative Agriculture and the Director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program for the Southern Region. He also serves as editor-in-chief for the journal Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems published by Cambridge University Press. His research and teaching focus on social change and development with emphases on agri-food systems, science and technology studies and environmental sociology.

Education

Ph.D. in Development Sociology from Cornell University

Master of Science in Food and Resource Economics from the University of Florida

Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the College of William and Mary