Event details for a May 2024 spring prairie walk through the tallgrass hosted by the Project and Theo Michaels. RSVP required.

A reading list of rural-related literature curated by the Rural Reconciliation Project. This collection focuses on rural violence and notions of justice in rural communities.

In Social Networks and Technology Adoption: Evidence from Church Mergers in the U.S. Midwest, Fiona Burlig (Public Policy, University of Chicago) and Andrew W. Stevens (Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin) consider how social networks increase agricultural technology adoption among farmers.

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

In Beekeeping, stewardship and multispecies care in rural contexts, authors Sibohan Maderson (Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University and School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University) and Emily Elsner-Adams (Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University and Elsner Research and Consulting) examine rural environmental stewardship through the practices of beekeepers in the United Kingdom.

In Can Infrastructure Help ‘Left Behind’ Places ‘Catch Up?’ Theorizing the Role of Built Infrastructure in Regional Development by Grete Gansauer, Julia H. Haggerty, and Kelli F. Roemer (all of the Earth Sciences Department, Montana State University), Kristin K. Smith (Headwaters Economics, Montana), and Mark N. Haggerty (Center for American Progress, Washington, D.C.) investigate the role of infrastructure in the development of “left behind” regions in the United States and argue that the nature of infrastructure interventions potentially leads to deepening structural “left behind-ness.”

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

A reading list of rural-related creative nonfiction curated by the Rural Reconciliation Project. This collection focuses on rural homecomings and the revisiting of rural homeplaces.

Event announcement. Join Dana Fritz, Hixson-Lied Professor of Art, Art History and Design, for an important reflection on how humans make, shape, and understand landscapes. Like a virtual fieldtrip to the Nebraska Sandhills, but through the lens of the most thoughtful and introspective of guides, visual artist Fritz will discuss and share photographs from her new book, “Field Guide to a Hybrid Landscape.” The book examines, in provocative ways, the unique hand-planted forest of the Bessey Ranger District and now includes some of the last images captured before the 2022 wildfires near Halsey. Event on February 21, 2024, at 4pm at the University of Nebraska College of Law.