Bell, Michael M.

Professor, Department of Community and Environmental Sociology
1450 Linden Drive
Madison, WI 53706-1562
Phone: (608) 265-9930
Fax: (608) 262-6022
michaelbell@wisc.edu
www.michaelmbell.net

Areas of interest: Environmental Sociology; Agroecology; Culture; Economic Sociology; Community; Place; Rural Society; Inequality; Gender; Sociology of the Body; Food; Sociology of science; Democracy; Social Theory; Ethnographic Methods.

Research Interests: Sociology of “nature”; Sociology of dialogue and dialogics; Sustainable agriculture as a social movement; Dialogic perspectives on agricultural sustainability; Rare local foods; Social experience of place and environment; Cultivation of knowledge; Rural masculinities; Dialogue and democracy.

Combs, Dave

Associate professor, dairy science
College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, UW-Madison
934F Animal Science Building
Madison, WI 53706
Phone: (608) 263-4844
dkcombs@facstaff.wisc.edu

Areas of interest: dairy cattle nutrition, digestion markers in the gastrointestinal tract, applied dairy cattle feeding, factors influencing fiber digestion and utilization, forage utilization, intake regulation, and calf nutrition and management.

Kloppenburg, Jack

Professor, Department of Community and Environmental Sociology
1450 Linden Drive
Madison, Wisconsin 53706
Phone: (608) 262-6867
Fax: (608) 262-6022
jrkloppe@facstaff.wisc.edu

Areas of interest: Social ramifications of knowledge production; social impacts of biotechnology; local and indigenous knowledges; alternative agriculture; political economy of genetic information and biodiversity; food systems and foodshed analysis; alimentary ecology; globalization and its discontents.

Research areas: Rural sociology, environment and resource sociology, sociology of agriculture, sociology of science.

McCown, Brent

Professor, Department of Horticulture
393 Horticulture
1575 Linden Dr
Madison, WI 53706
Phone: (608) 262-0574
bhmccown@wisc.edu

Porter, Warren

Professor and chair, Department of Zoology
College of Letters and Science, UW-Madison
250 N. Mills St., Room 207
Madison, WI 53706
Phone: (608) 262-1719; 262-0029
Fax: (608) 262-9083
wporter@mhub.zoology.wisc.edu
www.wisc.edu/zoology/faculty/fac/Por/Por.html

The first CIAS Faculty Associate with a home department outside of CALS, Warren’s interests include understanding how climate, disease, and low-level toxicant mixtures affect the potential for growth, reproduction, population dynamics, and community structure in reptiles and mammals. He and his interdisciplinary research colleagues have found that mixtures of aldicarb (the most common carbamate insecticide), atrazine (the most common herbicide), and nitrate fertilizer that reflect current Wisconsin groundwater concentrations are capable of suppressing immune parameters, changing hormone levels and altering aggression. Other herbicide and pesticide mixtures that they have studied have altered locomotion, learning abilities, and exploratory behavior in white mice and wild deer mice.

Posner, Josh

Professor, agronomy
College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, UW-Madison
465 Moore Hall
Madison, WI 53706
Phone: (608) 262-0876
jlposner@facstaff.wisc.edu

Areas of interest: farming systems, international agriculture, low input production systems, cropping systems of the tropics, Wisconsin Integrated Cropping Systems Trials; currently part of a multidisciplinary team working on low input production systems for Wisconsin.