Contact Information

Dr. Wes Harrison, Ph.D.
Department Chair

500 W.P. Garrigus Building Lexington, KY 40546-0215

(859) 562-2788

Ali Meyer-Rossi

Ali Meyer-Rossi

Portrait of Dr. Ali Rossi

Ali Meyer-Rossi

Senior Lecturer

Community and Leadership Development
503 Garrigus Building 325 Cooper Drive Lexington, KY 40546

Last Revised: Feb 24th, 2023

Professional Biography

Professional Profile

 

As a Senior Lecturer my priority is my students. I teach two sections each semester of GEN100: Issues in Agriculture, Food, and Environment, and thoroughly enjoy how each class develops its own personality. Our College has such an amazing wealth of resources – from the greenhouses to the meat lab; I am grateful to be able to share these assets with my GEN100 students as we work through the important implications of our agri-food system, community structures, natural resources, and the way these impact our daily lives. I also regularly teach CLD/SOC 380: Globalization and CLD/SOC 102: Rural Social Change.  I have also taught courses on food systems and the global implications of eating, the Syrian refugee crisis, public protests from 1999 to the Arab Spring, and more. More broadly, I have worked on various methods of integrating social, economic, and environmental Sustainability into pedagogy at UK.

Areas of Interest

International Development & Globalization, Political Ecology, Protest and Resistance, Qualitative Research Methods, Sociology of Food Systems, Agriculture, and Environment

University/Committee Involvement:

CAFÉ Undergraduate Student Success Team

CAFÉ Retention Advisory Team Member

University Appeals Board Member

Committee member, Program Committee

 

Education

Ph.D., Rural Sociology, The Pennsylvania State University, 2008
M.S., Sociology, University of Kentucky, 2004
B.A., International Studies, University of Dayton, 2000

Contact Information

Dr. Wes Harrison, Ph.D.
Department Chair

500 W.P. Garrigus Building Lexington, KY 40546-0215

(859) 562-2788