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Robert L. Moxley

RANK: Professor

POSITION RESPONSIBILITY: Research and Teaching (Sociology)

EDUCATION:

! Ph.D. - Cornell (1970)

! M.Ed. - Springfield College (1962)

! B.S. - Florida State (1961)

POSITIONS HELD: ! Professor of Sociology/College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, NCSU (1982-Present)

! US Public Health Service Senior Staff Fellow with the Division Applied Research, NIH/NIDA (1991)

! Graduate Administrator, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, NCSU (1983-87)

! Fulbright Lecturer and Research Scholar (University of Campinas, Brazil) (1981)

! Assistant through Associate Professor of Sociology, School of Liberal Arts, NCSU (1969-82)

RESEARCH INTERESTS: ! Rural Substance Abuse Problems, Treatment, and Socioeconomic Impacts; Community Solidarity and Political Competitiveness; USAID Peanut CRSP Program Socioeconomic Impacts; Ag. Commodities as Factorial DimensionsPROJECTS, GRANTS, CONTRACTS (LAST 10 YEARS): ! Moxley, Robert L. 1996-98. Adoption/Diffusion Processes, Persistence, and Socioeconomic Impacts of New Inputs and Peanut Varieties. $103,271. AID Peanut CRSP.

! Moxley, Robert L. 1996-98. Rural and Urban Counties and Drug/Alcohol Problems. $144,876. National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Drug Abuse.

! Moxley, Robert L. 1993-98. Substance Abuse Problems, Treatment, Health, and Socioeconomic Impacts. Funded by North Carolina Agricultural Research Services (NCARS).

! Moxley, Robert L. and Tom Hoban. 1995-96. Development of Training Module on Sociology as Part of NRCS Ecosystem Based Assistance Training Course. $14,900. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resource Conservation Service.

! Moxley, Robert L. 1987-93. Project NC 16028, Rural Development and Farm Viability. Analysis of relationships between selected aspects of rural economic development and agriculture. Funded by NCARS.

! Moxley, Robert L. 1991. Socioeconomic Impacts of the Peanut CRSP Project in the U.S. and Selected Countries. $10,715. AID Peanut CRSP.

! Moxley, Robert L., Dr. Joe Purcell, University of Georgia, and Jerry Wheelock, University of Alabama. August 12, 1990-June 30, 1991. Socioeconomic Impacts of A New Peanut Variety: A Survey of Jamaica Farmers. $9,750. Funded by AID Peanut CRSP.

! Moxley, Robert L., Dr. Joe Purcell, and Dr. Jerry Wheelock, University of Alabama at Huntsville. June 1990-August 1990. A Study of Peanut Farming and the Agricultural Sector in Jamaica. $4,196. Sub-grant to R. Moxley funded by AID Peanut CRSP.

TEACHING AND GRADUATE ACTIVITIES: ! Courses taught: 1) Social Systems and Planned Change, 2) Social Indicators, 3) The Community, 4) Developing Societies, 5) Community Organization and Development, 6) Social Movements, 7) Comparative Societies, 8) Urban Studies Campinas, Brazil, and 9) Community Research Methods

! Current Teaching Responsibilities: 1) Community Organization and Development, 2) Developing Societies, 3) The Community, and 4) International Development

! In past ten years chaired 3 Ph.D. committees and 4 masters. In 1987, my last year of a 4 year term as graduate administrator I advised 20 graduate students (those without chairs). Since 1987, I served on 8 Ph.D. committees and as committee/initial advisor of 9 masters. Currently advise 11 undergraduates and serve on 8 graduate committeesPUBLICATIONS (SELECTED) (LAST 10 YEARS): ! Moxley, R. L., and R. J. Thomson. 1996. Peanut CRSP Human Resource Development, in Impacts and Scientific Advances Through Collaborative Research on Peanut, James H. Williams et al. (eds). Griffin, GA: CRSP Management Office, University of Georgia.

! Moxley, R., and C. Proctor. 1995. Community Solidarity, Political Competitiveness, and Social Rigidity: Relationships with Social and Health Services. Rural Sociology 60 (2):310-32.

! Wimberley R. C., and R. L. Moxley. 1995. Dimensions of Farm Commodity Production: Horses, Strawberries and Why. Southern Rural Sociology 11 (1):44-59.

! Thomson, R. J., and R. L. Moxley. 1994. Socioeconomic Impacts of Peanut CRSP Graduate Training Efforts. Research Report 94-01. Griffin, GA: AID Peanut CRSP, University of Georgia.

! Purcell, J., R. L. Moxley, and J. Wheelock. 1993. The Economic Impact of Peanut CRSP in Jamaica: Performance of CARDI/PAYNE Cultivar. Research Report 92-02. Griffin, GA: AID Peanut CRSP, University of Georgia.

! Troost, K. M., R. L. Moxley, T. Sohn, and Y. Chung. 1992. New Directions In Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Technology Transfer: Research on Peanut Farmers, Attitudes, and Socioeconomic Impacts. Research Report 92-01. Griffin, GA: AID Peanut CRSP, University of Georgia.

! Moxley, R. L. 1992. U. S. Rural Drug Abuse Research Needs and Research Policy. Drugs and Society 7 (No. 2):117-39.

! Moxley, R. L. 1992. Comparative Community Structure: Organizational Solidarity, Social Rigidity, Political Competitiveness and Population. Pp. 171-86 in Research in Community Sociology, Dan A. Chekki (ed.). JAI Press.

! Moxley, R. L., and D. Bachtel. 1989. Reviewing Papers for The Social Sciences: Recurrent Problems and Suggestions for Improving the Evaluation Process. Family Science Review 2 (2 May).

! Tomazic, T., and R. L. Moxley. 1987. Is Locality Differentiation a Unidimensional Phenomenon? Southern Rural Sociology 5 (1):17-40.

SERVICE ACTIVITIES:

! Grant reviews/summary writer Community Alcohol and Drug Abuse/Prevention Program: Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration (ADAMHA), U.S. Public Health Service (summer 1987); Small Business Innovative Research (USDA grant program) reviewer (1986, 1987, 1988, and 1989); Publications Committee, RSS (1991-1994); Organizer of panel on Drug Abuse in Rural Areas at RSS meetings (1991); Organizer of roundtable titled Drugs in the Workplace at the ASA meetings (August 1991); Chair, RSS Membership Committee and member of RSS National Council (1986-87); Community Development Society Awards Committee (1986-88); RSS Awards Committee (1986-88)HONORS, AWARDS, OTHER IMPORTANT ACTIVITIES: ! President Southern Rural Sociological Association (SRSA) (1998-99); Vice President SRSA (1997-98); President, Sigma Iota Rho (NCSU) (1997-98); Program chair, SRSA (1996-97); President, NC Sociological Association (1996-97); Selected to chair University Harrelson Speaker Committee (1996-97); Award for Outstanding Accomplishments in Teaching, the SRSA (1993); Extramural Staff Fellow, NIH/NIDA, Division of Applied Research (1991); Excellence In Instruction Award, RSS (1990); Editor, Southern Rural Sociology (July 1987 to 1991)FUTURE PLANS: ! Proposals to extend two current research projects; Write research articles on NIH grant data; Write articles on Jamaica adoption/diffusion data; Complete Philippine data collection