Research Summary
Focuses on the intersection between social inequality and spatial inequality. His major areas of research include the interrelationship between rural poverty and student transiency, contexts for rural youth development, farm-to-school program implementation.
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Recent Publications
Social and political correlates of adult and dependent-child COVID-19 vaccination behavior in rural America
Tom Mueller, J., Tickamyer, A., Thiede, B. C., Schafft, K. & Graefe, A., May 2024, In: Preventive Medicine Reports. 41, 102706.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
“Turning Their Back on Kids”: Inclusions, Exclusions, and the Contradictions of Schooling in Gentrifying Rural Communities
Sherman, J. & Schafft, K. A., May 1 2022, In: RSF. 8, 3, p. 150-170 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
“This Is a Good Neighborhood. This Ain’t No Pittsburgh!”: Conflicting Narratives of Opioid Misuse within Rural School Districts and Communities
Burfoot-Rochford, I. & Schafft, K. A., Nov 2021, In: American Journal of Education. 128, 1, p. 1-28 28 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Race, Ethnicity, and Twenty-First Century Rural Sociological Imaginings: A Special Issue Introduction*
Carrillo, I., Quisumbing King, K. & Schafft, K. A., Sep 2021, In: Rural Sociology. 86, 3, p. 419-443 25 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review
A “Resource Curse” for Education? Deepening Education Disparities in Pennsylvania’s Shale Gas Boomtowns
Kelly, M. G. & Schafft, K. A., 2021, In: Society and Natural Resources. 34, 1, p. 23-39 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Rurality and Crises of Democracy: What Can Rural Sociology Offer the Present Moment?*
Schafft, K. A., Sep 2021, In: Rural Sociology. 86, 3, p. 393-418 26 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
BEYOND CULTURAL AND STRUCTURAL EXPLANATIONS OF REGIONAL UNDERDEVELOPMENT: IDENTITY AND DISPOSSESSION IN APPALACHIA
Peine, E. K., Azano, A. P. & Schafft, K. A., 2020, In: Journal of Appalachian Studies. 26, 1, p. 40-56 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Reconceptualizing rapid energy resource development and its impacts: Thinking regionally, spatially and intersectionally
Schafft, K. A., Brasier, K. & Hesse, A., May 2019, In: Journal of Rural Studies. 68, p. 296-305 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
Mobilities, Fixities and Stabilities in Rural Pennsylvania's Natural Gas Boomtowns: Re-Conceptualising Boomtown Development Through a Mobilities Lens
Burfoot-Rochford, I. & Schafft, K. A., Jan 2018, In: Sociologia Ruralis. 58, 1, p. 171-189 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
A decade of Marcellus Shale: Impacts to people, policy, and culture from 2008 to 2018 in the Greater Mid-Atlantic region of the United States
Jacquet, J. B., Junod, A. N., Bugden, D., Wildermuth, G., Fergen, J. T., Jalbert, K., Rahm, B., Hagley, P., Brasier, K. J., Schafft, K., Glenna, L., Kelsey, T., Fershee, J., Kay, D. L., Stedman, R. C. & Ladlee, J., Nov 2018, In: Extractive Industries and Society. 5, 4, p. 596-609 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
Busted amidst the Boom: The Creation of New Insecurities and Inequalities within Pennsylvania's Shale Gas Boomtowns
Schafft, K. A., McHenry-Sorber, E., Hall, D. & Burfoot-Rochford, I., Sep 2018, In: Rural Sociology. 83, 3, p. 503-531 29 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Roma political agency and spaces of social inclusion and exclusion: the contradictions of Roma self-governance amidst the rise of Hungary’s radical right
Schafft, K. A. & Ferkovics, R., Sep 2 2018, In: Ethnic and Racial Studies. 41, 11, p. 2009-2027 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Romani identity, cultural trauma, second-class citizenship and the contemporary context for ethnic political representation in Hungary
Ferkovics, R., Németh, K. & Schafft, K. A., Jun 2017, In: Politicka Misao. 54, 1-2, p. 74-93 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
Exploring school choice and the consequences for student racial segregation within Pennsylvania’s charter school transfers
Frankenberg, E., Kotok, S., Schafft, K. & Mann, B., Mar 13 2017, In: Education Policy Analysis Archives. 25Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Taking away David’s sling*: environmental justice and land-use conflict in extractive resource development
Kennedy, A., Schafft, K. A. & Howard, T. M., Aug 3 2017, In: Local Environment. 22, 8, p. 952-968 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review