Samuel A. McReynolds, Ph.D.
Professor
smcreynolds@une.edu

Expertise

Development sociology; agrarian reform; Latin American studies; social policy environmental sociology; visual sociology; community development.

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Research and Scholarship

Research Interests

Agrarian reform in El Salvador; rural development in New England; curriculum assessment.

Current Research or Scholarship

Civic engagement and social capital: the processes and impact of core curriculum citizenship education at the University of New England; the foundations and future of environmental sociology; agrarian reform in Scotland; demographic change in Maine and New England.

Selected Publications

"Land Reform in El Salvador and the Chapultepec Peace Accords," The Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol. 30, No.1, Oct. 2002, pp. 135-169;

"Frontiers, to Farms, to Factories: The Economic and Social Development of Vermont from 1791 to 1991," Vermont History, Vol. 71, Winter/Spring 2003, pp. 88-97; 

"The Relationship of Land Tenure to Agricultural Practices and Environ-mental Sustainability in El Salvador," Culture and Agriculture, Vol 22, No. 3 September; 

"Guia para iniciantes em sociologia do meio ambiente," in Ambiente e Sociedad, Ano II, No. 5, Segundo Semestre de 1999; Co-Author with A. Christine Brown, 

"Community and Environmental Compatibility in the York River Watershed, York, Maine--A Project-based Interdisciplinary Service-Learning Course," in David C. Brubaker and Joel H. Ostroff, (eds) Life, Learning, and Community, Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Biology, American Association for Higher Learning: Washington, D.C..

Student Opportunities: Yes