Elizabeth Ransom
Associate Professor and Interim Director, School of International Affairs
Email: exr497@psu.edu
Phone: 814-867-2792
Elizabeth Ransom is the Interim Director and an Associate Professor of the School of International Affairs. She is also a senior research associate in the Rock Ethics Institute. Ransom’s research interests are in the areas of international development and globalization, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa; gender; the political economy of agriculture and food systems; and social studies of science and technology. She has published articles in journals such as Gender & Society, Journal of Rural Studies, and Rural Sociology and she has two edited books, Rural America in a Globalizing World: Problems and Prospects for the 2010s (West Virginia University Press, 2014, with coeditors Conner Bailey and Leif Jensen) and Global Meat: Social and Environmental Consequences of the Expanding Meat Industry (MIT Press, 2019, with co-editor Bill Winders).