Faculty Profile
Anne Elizabeth Marie Cafer
Center for Population Studies
Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of Center for Population Studies
543 Lamar Hall
University, MS 38677
(662) 915-5733
Joined UM: August 18, 2016
Areas of Expertise
- AGRICULTURE
- COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
- COMMUNITY-BASED RESEARCH
- CULTURAL CONTEXT
- DEVELOPMENT SOCIOLOGY
- ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
- ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
- FOOD INSECURITY
- GEOSPATIAL HEALTH
- GLOBALIZATION
- HEALTH OUTCOMES AND ECONOMICS
- INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
- MEASUREMENT AND EVALUATION
- QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
- QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH
- SOCIAL CAPITAL
- SOCIAL CHANGE
- SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH
- SOCIOLOGY
- SOCIOLOGY OF FOOD
- SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH AND HEALTHCARE
- SUSTAINABILITY
- WELFARE AND POVERTY
Brief Bio
Anne M Cafer is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Mississippi. Anne does research in community resilience, food insecurity, rural sociology, and development. She is an avid practitioner of mixed methods and community based participatory research. She work in the Mississippi Delta and in Sub-Saharan Africa (Ethiopia, Zambia, Rwanda).
Degrees
MA |
Anthropology |
University of Nebraska-Lincoln (2011) |
PhD |
Sociology |
University of Missouri-Columbia (2016) |
Awards
Dr. Mike L. Edmonds New Scholar Award |
2020 |