Ann Tickamyer
Rural Fellow
Ann R. Tickamyer (Ph.D. 1979, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) is Professor of Sociology, Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, and a past Presidential Research Scholar at Ohio University. Prior to joining the faculty at OU in 1996 she was Professor of Sociology at the University of Kentucky. Her research focuses on rural poverty and inequality, gender, work, and development, and social welfare provision in the U.S. and Indonesia. This work has been supported by numerous grants and is published in leading journals and books. She is coeditor of two books, Communities of Work: Rural Restructuring in Local and Global Context, and The Sociology of Spatial Inequality (forthcoming from SUNY Press in 2007). Currently she is working on two projects: a longitudinal study of the impacts of welfare reform in Appalachian communities and the relationship between gender and social welfare provision in rural Indonesian villages. She teaches in the areas of poverty and inequality, gender and development, and social research methods. She is a past president of the Rural Sociological Society and a past editor of Rural Sociology.
E-mail Ann Tickamyer at tickamye@ohio.edu.