Loka Ashwood | |
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Awards | MacArthur Fellow (2024) |
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Discipline | Sociologist |
Sub-discipline | Rural communities |
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Website | lokaashwood |
Loka Ashwood (born 1984 or 1985) is an American sociologist currently working at the University of Kentucky as an associate professor of sociology. [1] Her research focuses on rural communities and their issues. [2] [3] She is a 2024 MacArthur Fellow. [3] [4]
Her first book,For-Profit Democracy,investigated the relationship between rural American communities and the U.S. government through the lens of Burke County,Georgia and the construction of a nuclear power plant there. [3]
Ashwood co-wrote the 2023 book Empty Fields,Empty Promises,which explored right-to-farm laws across the United States. [3] She has criticized right-to-farm laws,saying they have been used by agricultural corporations to limit the efficacy of pollution-focused lawsuits. [5]
Ashwood was raised in a farming family in Illinois. [3] [6]
She graduated in 2007 from Northwestern University with a BS. [3] She interned as a reporter for U.S. Farm Report for a few years while at Northwestern. [6] She graduated in 2009 from University of Galway with an ML, [3] and went on to do community development work at Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs. [6] She earned her PhD in 2015 from the University of Wisconsin,Madison. [3]
Ashwood worked as an assistant professor at Auburn University from 2015–2020. In 2020 she was hired by the University of Kentucky. [3]
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