Staff and People at the Center
Thaddeus C. Guldbrandsen, Ph.D is Director of the Plymouth State University Center for Rural Partnerships and Research Assistant Professor of Anthropology. He has published on the topics of urban-regional planning and governance, regionalism, social inequality, local politics, environmental activism, educational anthropology, immigration, and social theory and methods. He has taught courses in globalization, urban anthropology; and race, gender and social inequality in the United States. Before joining PSU in November of 2005, he was Research Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for the Study of Community at the University of New Hampshire. He is co-author of the book, Local Democracy Under Siege: Activism, Public Interests and Private Politics (NYU 2007).
Marsi G. Wisniewski graduated from Plymouth State University in 1992 with a B.S. in English Education. As Administrative Assistant for the department, she is responsible for the smooth running of the Center's day to day operations. In addition to office management, blogging, and coordinating events, she supports the director and other employees of the Center with library and Internet research.
Affiliated Faculty
Steve Kahl is a professor in the new PSU Department of Environmental Science and Policy and serves as the chief scientist for the Center’s Environmental Research Laboratory. He was the founding director of the Center from 2004 -2008. His research interests include acid rain, lake chemistry, mercury cycling, paleolimnology, and the intersection of science and public policy.
Steven W. Whitman, Adjunct Faculty, Geography, B.A., University of Rhode Island; M.R.P., University of Massachusetts at Amherst
