Professor Pruitt Speaks at Rural Sociological Society Annual Meeting

Professor Lisa R. Pruitt gave four presentations at the Rural Sociological Society Annual Meeting held August 7-10 in Toronto.  Her activities included participation in a plenary session on "Class and Rural America" and in a panel about a forthcoming text, Rural Poverty in the U.S.A.  In addition, she was elected chair of the Rural Studies Research Interest Group.

Lisa R. Pruitt, Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor at UC Davis School of Law, is a scholar whose recent work explores the legal relevance of rural spatiality, including how it inflects dimensions of gender, race, and ethnicity.  Pruitt's work also considers rural-urban difference in transnational and international contexts.