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• Ethan Schoolman
• Phone: (848) 932-9203
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• Research Interests: environmental and social dimensions of local, regional and alternative food systems
• Degrees: (Ph.D., University of Michigan 2013)
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Ethan D. Schoolman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Ecology. Prior to coming to Rutgers, Dr. Schoolman was a Dow Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the School of Natural Resources and Environment and the Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan, where he also received his Ph.D. in sociology. 

Dr. Schoolman’s research centers on the environmental and social dimensions of local, regional and alternative food systems. He is currently working on several projects examining how participation in local food systems influences the farming practices and decision-making processes of specialty crop growers. In addition, he is pursuing research on inequalities in access to fresh and healthy food, crop diversification strategies developed by farmers in response to consumer demand for local food, factors that facilitate successful collaboration in interdisciplinary environmental research, and ethical consumption outside of politically-engaged, green consumers. Dr. Schoolman employs a wide range of research methods, including original surveys, qualitative interviews, focus groups, spatial analysis, and analysis of pre-existing quantitative data. 

Outside of academia, Dr. Schoolman has worked in Alaska, Arizona, New York, and Georgia, in eco-tourism, ecology, and journalism. He also holds a master’s degree in politics from Princeton and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Chicago.

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• James DeFilippis
• Phone: (848) 932-5475 x734
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• Research Interests: community development, housing policy, immigration, labor
• Degrees: (Ph.D., Rutgers)
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• Will Payne
• Phone: (848) 932-2370
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• Research Interests: urban geography, spatial data science, critical and feminist GIS food studies, gentrification studies
• Degrees: (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley)
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• Richard Schroeder
• Professor Emeritus
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• Research Interests: political ecology, African development, conservation, gender
• Degrees: (Ph.D., UC Berkeley)
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Richard Schroeder served as a Professor of Geography, Director (founding) of the Center for African Studies, and as Undergraduate Director, Graduate Director and Chair of the Department of Geography at Rutgers.

He is the author of two books and an edited collection, including Africa After Apartheid: South Africa, Race and Nation in Tanzania, which won the American Association of Geographers’ (AAG) Meridian Book Award for Outstanding Scholarly Work in Geography in 2012. He subsequently received the 2016 Robert Netting Award for research and professional activities that bridge Geography and Anthropology by the AAG’s Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group.

Schroeder is a past member of the Board of Directors of the African Studies Association, and a recipient of the 2014 Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools’ Graduate Teaching Award (PhD level). He holds a BA from Macalester College; an MS from the University of Wisconsin; and a PhD from the University of California‐Berkeley.