Jan Flora · Professor
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Contact Information 317D East Hall (515) 294-4295 BA University of Kansas |
Flora specializes in the areas of community, agricultural, and rural change in the United States and in developing countries. He is a community extension specialist, assisting Hispanics and other immigrant groups to become more involved in their Iowa communities. Current research includes the role of social capital in rural U.S. communities, the impact of Confinement Animal Feeding Operations on natural, human, social, cultural, and financial capitals, and research on self sufficiency wages and the working poor in rural Iowa.. As a member of the Sustainable Agriculture graduate faculty, he also is active in an exchange program with the National Agrarian University-La Molina (UNALM)in Peru, which also has a graduate program in sustainable agriculture. He is co-author of the textbook Rural Communities: Legacy and Change which recently came out in second edition. He is a former president of the Rural Sociological Society and is presently a visiting professor at UNALM in Peru. He serves on the board of the Land Institute near Salina, Kansas.
