VITAE: Douglas H - Sam Houston State University

EDUCATION:
Ph.D. 1993
M.S. 1984
B.S. 1976
Rural Sociology, University of Missouri - Columbia.
Community Development, University of Missouri - Columbia
Forest Management, University of Missouri - Columbia
SPECIALTY AREAS:
Sociology of Food and Agriculture
Globalization of the Economy and Society
Rural/Community Development
SELECTED REFEREED PUBLICATIONS:
Martinez, Francisco, Gilberto Aboites, and Douglas H. Constance. 2013. “Neoliberal
Restructuring, Neoregulation, and the Mexican Poultry Industry.” Agriculture and Human
Values 30(4):495-510.
Constance, Douglas, Francisco Martinez, Gilberto Aboites, and Alessandro Bonanno. 2013.
“The Problems with Poultry Production and Processing.” Pp. 155-176 in The Ethics and
Economics of Agrifood Competition edited by Harvey James: New York: Springer Press.
Constance, Douglas H., Jin Young Choi, and Damian Lara. 2013. “Social Dimensions of
Organic Production and Systems Research.” Online. Crop Management doi: 10.1094/CM2012-07XX-01-RV.
Hatanaka, Maki, Jason Konefal, and Douglas H. Constance. 2012. “A Tripartite Standards
Regime Analysis of the Contested Development of a Sustainable Agriculture Standard.”
Agriculture and Human Values 29(1):65-78.
Constance, Douglas H. and M. Kirk Jentoft. 2011. "Global Productive Capital Mobility: The
Case of Chilean Farmed Atlantic Salmon." Pp. 167-204 in Globalization and the TimeSpace Reorganization: Mobility in Agriculture and Food in the Americas, Edited by A.
Bonanno and J.S. Cavalcanti. Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
Constance, Douglas H., Francisco Martinez, and Gilberto Aboites. 2010. “The Globalization of
the Poultry Industry: Tyson Foods and Pilgrim's Pride in Mexico” Pp. 59-76 in From
Community to Consumption: New and Classical Statements in Rural Sociological
Research. Research in Rural Sociology and Development. Volume 16. Edited by
Alessandro Bonanno, Hans Bakker, Raymond Jussaume, Yoshio Kawamura, and Mark
Shucksmith. Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
Bonanno, Alessandro, Douglas H. Constance, Francisco Martinez, and Gilberto Aboites. 2010.
“Globalizacion y Consumo en Medio de la Crisis Ecologia.” Pp. 55-71 in Patrones de
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Consumo Alimentario en Mexico.” Edited by G. Aboites. Coahuila, Mexico: Editorial
Trillas.
Martinez-Gomez, Francisco, Alejandra B. Trejo Nieto, Alessandro Bonanno and Douglas H.
Constance. 2010. “Globalizacion y Resestructurualcion Economica: El Caso de la
Industria Avicola de Mexico. Pp. 95-120 in Patrones de Consumo Alimentario en
Mexico.” Edited by G. Aboites. Coahuila, Mexico: Editorial Trillas.
Lau, Michael, Roger Hanagriff, Douglas Constance, Mary York, Brian Van Delist, and Lindsey
Higgins. 2010. "Discerning Differences among Producer Groups and Organic Adoption
Barriers in Texas." Journal of Food Distribution Research 41(2):124-164.
Constance, Douglas H. 2010. "Sustainable Agriculture in the United States: A Critical
Examination of a Contested Process." Sustainability 2(1):48-72.
http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/2/1/48
Constance, Douglas H., and Jin Young Choi. 2010. "Overcoming the Barriers to Organic
Adoption in the United States: A Look at Pragmatic Conventional Producers in Texas."
Sustainability 2(1):163-188. http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/2/1/163
Constance, Douglas H. 2009. “Contested Globalization of the Agrifood System: A Missouri
School Analysis of Sanderson Farms and Seaboard Farms in Texas.” Southern Rural
Sociology 24(2):48-86.
http://www.ag.auburn.edu/auxiliary/srsa/pages/Articles/SRS%202009%2024%202%20
48-86.pdf
Bonanno, Alessandro and Douglas H. Constance. 2008. Stories of Globalization: Transnational
Corporations, Resistance, and the State. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State
University Press.
Constance, Douglas H. 2008. “The Southern Model of Broiler Production and Its Global
Implications.” Culture and Agriculture 30(1):17-31.
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/121510185/PDFSTART
Constance, Douglas H. 2008. “The Emancipatory Question: The Next Step in the Sociology of
Agrifood Systems?” Agriculture and Human Values 25(2):151-155.
Constance, Douglas H., Jin Young Choi, and Holly Lyke-Ho-Gland. 2008.
“Conventionalization, Bifurcation, and Quality of Life: A Look at Certified and NonCertified Organic Farmers in Texas.” Southern Rural Sociology 23(1):208-234.
http://www.ag.auburn.edu/auxiliary/srsa/pages/Articles/SRS%202008%2023%201%202
08-234.pdf
Jordan, Jeffrey L. and Douglas H. Constance. 2008. “Sustainable Agriculture and the Social
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Sciences: Getting Beyond Best Management Practices and Getting Into Food Systems.”
Southern Rural Sociology 23(1):1-22.
http://www.ag.auburn.edu/auxiliary/srsa/pages/Articles/SRS%202008%2023%201%201
-22.pdf
AWARDS:
2013
2012
2012
2008
2006
Excellence in Research Award, Southern Rural Sociological Association
Outstanding Service Award, College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Excellence in Service Award, Agriculture, Food, and Human Values
Society
Excellence in Public Service Award, Southern Rural Sociological
Association
Excellence in Teaching Award, Southern Rural Sociological Association
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:
2013-2016
2001-2014
2010-2014
2010-2014
2013-2014
2008-2014
2011-2014
2013-2014
2012-2013
2009-2012
2007-2008
2002-2003
Editor in Chief, Journal of Rural Social Sciences
Sociology Department: Director of Undergraduate Studies
Member, CHSS Promotion and Tenure Committee
Member, CHSS Standing College Academic Review Panel
Chair, SHSU Faculty Development Leave Committee
Chair, USDA Southern SARE Administrative Council
Co-Chair, Social Sustainability Subcommittee, Leonardo Academy
National Sustainable Agriculture Standards Committee
Secretary/Treasurer, SHSU Chapter of the American Association of
University Professors
Vice President, Rural Sociological Society
Co-Editor, Journal of Rural Social Sciences
President: Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society
President: Southern Rural Sociological Association.
Theses/Dissertations
2012-2013
2012-2013
Co-Director, Undergraduate Honor’s Thesis, Jonathan Jesus Almanza
Hernandez. “Globalacion, desregulacion financeria y expansion de
companies transnacionales en la industria avicola: El caso de JBS &
Pilgrim’s Pride.” Universidad Autonoma Agraria Antonio Narro:
Division de Ciensas Socioecnomicas
Chair, Undergraduate Honor’s Thesis, Brittany Gregory. “A Look into a
Christian Mega Church: The Gospel of Lakewood.” Sam Houston State
University
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2012-2013
2011-2013
2011-2012
2009-2011
2009-2011
2009-2010
2007-2008
2002-2004
Lector, Thesis Committee, Reyna Zarate Perez, Antonio Narro
Autonomous Agricultural University. “La flexibilidad laboral de las
mujeres en la avicultura Mexicana.”
Lector, Thesis Committee, Elsa Laura Ruiz Serrano, Autonomous
University of Coahuila. “Globalizacion y Corporaciones avicolas:
Estrategias de abastecimiento de alimento balanceado en Mexico.”
Co-Director, Thesis Committee, Cristina Sosa, Autonomous University
of Coahuila. “Inversion extranjera directa: Estrategia corporative de
expansion hacia los Estados Unidos de America de la firma Bachoco:
1980-2011.
Lector, Dissertation Committee, Esther Martinez, Autonomous
University of Coahuila
Co-Director, Thesis Committee, Aldo Torres Garcia, Autonomous
University of Coahuila. “El rol de las pequenas y medianas empresas de
la industria avicola in el proceso de la globalizacion: El caso de la zona
metropolitana de Saltillo (1958-2010).”
Chair, Thesis Committee: Cheryl Hudec. “Rural Lunch Ladies and
School Meal Programs: Dependency and Deskilling.” Sam Houston
State University
Chair, Thesis Committee: Holly Ho-Gland-Lyke. “Organic
Conventionalization and Bifurcation: The Case of Texas.” Sam Houston
State University
Member, Dissertation Committee: Anna M. Kleiner, “Measuring the
Impacts of Large-Scale Swine Operations on Quality of Life in Rural
Communities.” Department of Rural Sociology, University of MissouriColumbia.
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