Southern Rural Sociological Association
...an educational and scientific organization established to foster the study, understanding, and application of rural sociology in the South.
SRSA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
February 2023-February 2024
President-Elect 2024-2025
Russ J. Garner
Extension/Research Associate
Southern Rural Development Center
Box 9755
160 Lloyd-Ricks-Watson Building
Mississippi State, MS 39762
Phone: (662) 325-0153
Fax: (662) 325-8777
Email: russ.garner@msstate.edu
President 2024-2025
Marcus Bernard
Associate Professor, Rural Sociology
College of Agriculture, Community, and the Sciences
Kentucky State University
Cooperative Extension Building, Suite 231C
105 University Drive
Frankfort, KY 40601
(502) 597-5758
Program Chair 2024-2025
Kara Woods
Research Analyst
SDFR Policy Research Center
Office of the President, Alcorn State University
1000 ASU Drive #449
Lorman, Mississippi 39096
601-786-1505
Past President 2024-2025
Eleanor Green
Assistant Director, Delta Scholars, Shackouls Honors College
Mississippi State University
118 Twin Gum Road
Starkville, MS 39759
Phone: 662-402-4451
ecmgreen@gmail.com
Program Chair-Elect 2024-2025
Ryan Thomson
Assistant Professor, Rural Sociology
Auburn University
Department of Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology
313 Comer Hall
Auburn, AL 36849
(334) 844-5631
Journal Editor
John J. Green
Director, Southern Rural Development Center
Professor, Dept. of Agricultural Economics
P.O. Box 5187
Mississippi State, MS 39762
Phone: 662.325.0595
Email: john.green@msstate.edu
Student Representation
Graduate Student Representative
Meikah Dado, Texas A & M University
Meikah is a Ph.D. student at Texas A&M University in the Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communications Department. She is a graduate research assistant at the Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture where she works on the Africa Team. Her research interests are in international agricultural development involving women and youth.
Undergraduate Student Representative
Open Position
Secretary-Treasurer
Robert Zabawa
Research Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics
Tuskegee University
201 Campbell Hall
1210 W. Montgomery Rd.
Tuskegee, AL 36088
Phone: 334-727-8114
Email: rzabawa@tuskegee.edu