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Paul Lasley
Professor and Chair
Iowa State University Departments of
Sociology
and
Anthropology
Address: 107 East Hall
Ames, IA 50011
Daytime phone: (515) 294-0937
Email: plasley@iastate.edu
Brief biography: He represents Iowa State University on the
Leopold Center Advisory Board. Lasley has been an ISU Extension
sociologist since 1981. His research focuses on the organization of
U.S. agriculture and how changes in agriculture affect rural
communities. A major focus examines trends in rural culture and what
these trends suggest about the future of rural communities, families
and social organizations.
Lasley also is co-investigator of the Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll,
a series of statewide surveys among farm operators on major
agricultural and rural development issues. Areas of research and
extension expertise include rural development, community
development, sustainable agriculture, and leadership in agriculture.
He grew up on a farm in northern Missouri and holds M.S. and Ph.D.
degrees in sociology from the University of Missouri-Columbia. His
undergraduate work was in animal husbandry. Lasley also is a board
member for Youth and Shelter Services and a deacon at the United
Church of Christ-Congregational in Ames.
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