Karen Rignall

Department of Community and Leadership Development / Sociology
Assistant Professor

Specializes In:

• Agri-food systems in the Middle East and North Africa
• Rural livelihoods and economic development
• Anthropology of rural life
• Land tenure and land rights movements
• Labor migration

International Experience:

• Long-term field research in the sourtheastern oases of Morocco
• Community development experience in Morocco, Egypt, and West Africa
• Lived and worked in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia