Mark J. Schafer


Mark J. Schafer

Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies: Departments of Agricultural Economics & Agribusiness and Sociology

Address:
215 Martin Woodin Hall

Email Address:
mschaf1@lsu.edu

Office Phone:
(225) 578-5357

College:
Agriculture; Humanities & Social Sciences

Department:
Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness; Sociology

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

  • Sociology of Education
  • Comparative & Global Sociology
  • Social Inequality
  • Rural Sociology

 

Biography

I have been on faculty in the sociology department since 1999, and have had a split appointment with the Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, and the LSU Agricultural Center, since 2002. My research interests include global educational expansion; educational change in the United States; family and school effects on social inequality and mobility; long- and short-term social and demographic shifts in the Gulf of Mexico Region; the impact of technology change on education and research; and social transformations in rural and urban communities.

Education

PhD: Indiana University (1999)

Curriculum Vitae

Courses Recently Taught at LSU

(Syllabi are for illustrative purposes & subject to change)