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Theresa Selfa
Assistant Professor

109 Marshall Hall
1 Forestry Dr.
Syracuse, New York 13210

Phone: (315) 470-6570/470-6636
Email: tselfa@esf.edu

Education

• Cornell University, Development Sociology PhD 2001
• UC Berkeley, City and Regional Planning MCP 1992
• Whitman College, English Literature BA 1984

Research Interests

• Political ecology
• Environmental governance
• Community impacts of bioenergy development
• Environment and Development
• Water Management
• Sustainable agriculture and food systems
• Rural Development

Courses Taught

• Undergraduate: Environment and Society; Rural Sociology; International Development and Social Change; Introduction to Sociology
• Graduate: Sociology of Rural Development; Environment and Society; Political Sociology of Industrialized Societies; Sociology of Globalization; Agricultural Resources and Environmental Management

Recent Publications

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

T.Selfa , L. Kulcsár, C. Bain, R. Goe and G. Middendorf.  2010. “Biofuels Bonanza? Exploring Community Perceptions of the Promises and Perils of Biofuels Production,” Biomass and Bioenergy, Special issue on Sociopolitical Dimensions of U.S. Bioenergy Development. Forthcoming.

T.Selfa. 2010. “Global Benefits, Local Burdens? The Paradox of Governing Biofuels Production in Kansas and Iowa.” Special Issue on Sustainable Agriculture Systems in a Resource Limited Future, Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems.  Vol. 25: 129-142 .

T. Selfa, R. Fish and M. Winter. 2010.  “Farming livelihoods and landscapes: tensions in rural development and environmental regulation.” Landscape Research, Special Issue on Landscape and Rural Development in Europe.  Forthcoming.

H. H.Peterson, T. Selfa, and R. Janke. 2010. “Barriers and Opportunities for Sustainable Food Systems in Northeastern Kansas.” Sustainability, Special issue on Renewable Agriculture 2: 232-251.

J. Endter-Wada, T.Selfa,  and  L. Welsh.  2009.  “Hydrologic Interdependencies and Human Cooperation: The Process Of Adapting To Droughts.”  Weather, Climate and Society 1: 55-71.

R. Fish, M. Winter, D. Oliver , D. Chadwick, T.Selfa , L. Heathwaite, and C. Hodgson. 2009.  “Unruly Pathogens: Eliciting values for environmental risks in the context of heterogeneous expert knowledge.” Environmental Science and Policy 12(3): 281-296.

T.Selfa , R. Jussaume, Jr. and M. Winter. 2008 “Envisioning Agricultural Sustainability from Field to Plate: Comparing Producer and Consumer Attitudes and Practices in Washington State.”  Journal of Rural Studies 24: 262-276.

T.Selfa  and J. Endter-Wada.  2008. “The Politics of Community-Based Conservation in Natural Resource Management: A Focus for International Comparative Analysis.” Environment and Planning A 40: 948-965.

T. Selfa  and J.  Qazi. 2005.   “Place, Taste, or Face-to Face? Understanding Producer-Consumer Networks in ‘Local’ Food Systems in Washington State.” Agriculture and Human Values, Vol. 22:451-464.

J. Qazi and T. Selfa. 2005. “The Politics of Building Alternative Agro-Food Networks in the Belly of Agro-industry.”   Food, Culture, and Society, Vol. 8 (1):45-72

T. Selfa. 2004 “Mobilizing at the Frontier: Framing Social Justice Claims in a Natural Resources Management Project in Rondônia, Brazil.” Society and Natural Resources, Vol 17:717-734.

Peer Reviewed Book Chapters

A. Barton and T.Selfa. 2011.  “Community Development and Natural Landscapes” Pp. 35-53 in J. Robinson and G. Green, Eds.  Theory and Practice of Community Development. Sage Publishers.

T.Selfa  and T. Becerra. 2010. “Upstream-Downstream: Forging Rural-Urban Partnerships for
Shared Water Governance in Central Kansas,” Book chapter in The Citizen Effect: Pathways to Better Water Quality. L.W. Morton and S. Brown, Eds.  Penn State University Press.

T.  Selfa and R.  Jussaume, Jr.  2008. “Sustainable Foodscapes: Examining Consumer Attitudes and Practices toward Food and Farming in Washington State.” Pp. 107-122  in R. Fish, S. Seymour, and C. Watkins, Eds. Sustainable Farmland Management: New Transdisciplinary Approaches. Oxford, UK: CABI Press

Non-Refereed Publications

Devlin, D.L., N.O. Nelson, L. French, K.R. Mankin, P.L. Barnes, and T. Selfa . 2008. “Assessing the Impact of Implementing Conservation Practices in the Cheney Lake Watershed.”  Kansas State University Extension Publication EP -58.  4 pages.

Professional Memberships

• American Sociological Association, Member of Political Sociology and Environment and Technology Sections
• Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society
• European Society for Rural Sociology
• International Association for Society and Natural Resources
• Rural Sociological Society
• Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences