Profile information for Matthew Zinsli

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Matthew J. Zinsli, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology at Auburn University. His research examines how places are socially produced by investigating how actors establish authoritative understandings of place and how those understandings shape identities, institutions, economies, and material landscapes. Drawing on science and technology studies, rural sociology, environmental sociology, and development studies, he studies these questions across food systems, natural resource industries, and rural economies. As part of the Auburn University Rural Partnership Institute (AURPI), his current research focuses on stakeholder perspectives in Alabama's forest products industry.