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Rural communities

  • A farmer stands in a field with standing water in front of him.
    ISU study explores collective trauma’s impact on Iowa farmers

    October 31, 2025

  • Sociology professor David Peters, from left, with undergraduate student researchers Emily Meyer and Emma Bartling.
    More than half of rural counties are legal deserts, ISU study finds

    June 25, 2025

  • Power line against the sky
    Samuel Mindes’ research project receives university funding

    June 18, 2024

  • Shannon Monnat
    Beal Lecture focuses on the health of America’s rural population

    November 17, 2023

  • Small Town Poll members
    Small town poll to focus on rural Iowa’s growing diversity

    September 20, 2023

  • Katie Dentzman—Studying what influences students to return to family farm

    May 3, 2023

  • Graphic of household income and expenses, 2020-2022
    Inflation’s ongoing impact evened out in 2022

    March 23, 2023

  • Downtown Bancroft, IA
    Understanding what makes senior towns in Iowa ‘smart’

    March 7, 2023

  • Natalia Rios Martinez
    Research for the greater good

    December 5, 2022

  • Downtown scene from Corning, Iowa
    Survey highlights pandemic’s effect on mental and physical health in rural Iowa

    October 12, 2021

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Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice

103 East Hall
510 Farm House Lane
Ames, Iowa 50011

Office, soc-cj@iastate.edu

Criminal Justice and Sociology, cjsocadvising@iastate.edu

Agricultural and Rural Policy Studies, agpolicyadvising@iastate.edu

Phone: (515) 294-6480

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