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Larry Burmeister
Associate Professor,
Department of Community and Leadership Development
Director of Graduate Studies
Ph.D., 1985, Cornell University
505 Garrigus, (859) 257-7588
1563 Patterson Office Tower
email: lburm0@uky.edu
Vita
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Professor Burmeister's interests focus on the comparative political
economy of rural/agricultural restructuring in domestic and global
contexts. He is currently working on research projects dealing with
domestic agricultural policy responses in the U.S.
and East Asia to the World Trade Organization regime, sustainable agriculture
challenges to U.S. farm
policy, farm size expansion in South Korea,
and public perceptions of globalization among U.S. citizens. Recent
publications include Lagoons, Litter, and the Law: CAFO Regulation as
Social Risk Politics(Southern Rural Sociology,
Vol. 18, No. 2, 2002) and Group Behaviour and
Development: A Comparison of Farmers' Organizations in South Korea and
Taiwan(co-authored with Gustav Ranis and Michael
Wang in Group Behaviour and Development:
Is the Market Destroying Cooperation?, Judith Heyer,
Frances Stewart, and Rosemary Tharp, eds., Oxford University Press,
2002). Professor Burmeister is the recent
recipient of a Department of Education Hayes-Fulbright Faculty Research
Abroad grant and served as the American Sociological Association's
Congressional Fellow in 2001. His teaching interests include sociology
of agri-food systems, sociology of development,
economic sociology, and sociological theory.
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