Jessica A. Shoemaker, Steinhart Foundation Distinguished Professor of Law, has been named a fellow of Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute for the 2026-27 academic year.

In Trading Acres , Je ssica A. Shoem aker (Law, University of Nebraska-Lincoln) and James Fallows Tierney (Law, Illinois Institute of Technology) address the growing trend of financialization o...

A periodic collection of recent research, analysis, and other notable rural items.

If you pay attention to public discourse about rural populations, you might have noticed something missing in the aftermath of the 2024 presidential election: think-pieces on rural voter s. These th...

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In Fears and Fences: Social and Material Barriers to Plains Bison on the Canadian Prairies , auth ors Forrest Hisey, Melissa Heppner (both Geography, Geomatics, and Environment, Univers ity of Toro...

In Shared Stewardship, El izabeth Kronk Warne r and Jesús A. Salazar (Both Law, University of Utah) challenge the trend of excluding tribes from participation of co-stewardship of national lands...

Farms are places where people live their lives, sustain their families, and produce food and fiber for the wider community. And now, farms are assets swept up i

Call for Proposals for online Law & Rurality Workshop to be co-hosted by University of Nebraska College of Law Rural Reconciliaton Project and the University of South Dakota Knudson School of Law. Det...

In For Growth or Equity: A Taxonomy of ‘Bidenomics’ Place-Based Policies and Implications for US Regional Inequality , Gret e Gansauer (Earth Sciences, Montana State University) develops a new taxo...

Play around with interactive maps that show health-related data collected for the city of Lincoln

This July, the Rural Reconciliation Project hosted interdisciplinary scholars in Lincoln, Nebraska, to discuss pressing issues related to the changing ownership of land and water resources.

The 2024 Law & Rurality Workshop will be hosted in-person at the University of Iowa College of Law (Iowa City, Iowa) on Friday, November 15, 2024.

Farmland ownership has increasingly echoed older forms of domination, with investor takeover of land rising globally over the last several decades, driven by fi

In Empty Fields, Empty Promises: A State-by-State Guide to Understanding and Transforming the Right to Farm , Loka Ashwood (University of Kentucky, Sociology), Aimee Imlay (Mississippi State Univers...

A periodic collection of recent research, analysis, and other notable rural items.

Join the Rural Reconciliation Project and friends for a discussion of rural futures on March 11, 2025, inspired by an upcoming premier of the Angels Theatre Company’s new play, Eminent Domain.