John Green (Faculty Member is Retired, or has otherwise left the University)
Professor of Sociology and Anthropology
Phone Number: (662)915-7295
Email: jjgreen@olemiss.edu
http://socanth.olemiss.edu/2011/10/john-j-green/

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Research Description: I approach my investigations through a community-based research framework. This involves engaging with nonprofit organizations seeking to use research to inform community and regional problem solving. Furthermore, I work closely with students. We use applied multi-method (e.g. fieldwork, focus groups, surveys, secondary data analysis) projects to develop knowledge and build skills that supplement what students learn from the more traditional classroom.

My research is eclectic in regard to substantive topics, including community development, rural sociology, health, agrifood systems, quantitative methods, and mixed-methods research design. There are three important themes that I am particularly interested in: 1) health and wellbeing disparities and access to services at the community level, especially those concerning maternal-child health; 2) individual, household, and community vulnerability and resilience in the face of broad economic and environmental change; and 3) the challenges and successes experienced by people working in agrifood systems.

I am deeply involved in a series of initiatives focused on better integrating the community-based research framework - which is often mischaracterized as being inherently qualitative - with quantitative approaches to research and evaluation. This includes in-depth attention to the ways in which quantitative data are collected, analyzed, and used for developing knowledge, evaluating programs, and making decisions. Through a kind of ongoing ethnography of research and evaluation, I want to critique and open up both sides of the qualitative versus quantitative tradition with the hope of improving population studies in evaluation of social development and population health initiatives.

Honors Theses:

Fournier, Lindsay (2020) An Evaluation of Community Based Food Intervention: Cooking Matters in Charleston, MS (full text)

Myers, Joy Morgan (2020) An Examination of the Association Between State Medicaid Perinatal Services and Birth Outcomes (full text)

Pfleger, Morgan (2020) Vital Signs: Exploring Medical American Sign Language Interpreting Services in Mississippi (full text)

Gateley, Katrina (2020) An Examination of Student Health Insurance and Student Health Center Policies Across the Southeastern Conference (full text)

Johnson, Erin (2019) State and Regional Comparisons of Breastfeeding Policies and Rates: A National Study (full text)

Johnson, Muriel Mikayla (2019) Healthcare Practices Related to Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (full text)

Ostrovsky, Galina (2019) Lost in Translation: Challenges and Solutions to Language Barriers in Healthcare in Mississippi (full text)

Fratesi, Mary Alexandra (2018) Community-Based Research Methods to Inform Public Health Practice and Policy: The Case of Lead in the Mississippi Delta (full text)

Ibekwe, Chinelo (2018) Breastfeeding Support Programs: Systematic Review of Socioeconomic Literature (full text)

Borst, Alexander (2017) Agricultural Production Cooperatives in the EU: Explaining Variation in Cooperative Development. (full text)

Ott, Madeline (2016) The Role of Pharmacists in Prenatal Healthcare Concerning Obesity, Hypertension, and Diabetes. (full text)

Smith, Cody A. (2016) A Study of the Demographic and Socioeconomic Factors Influencing the Placement of Retail and Urgent Care Clinics. (full text)

Cowart, Jillian (2015) Producer Perspectives: Local Food System Development in the Global South. (full text)

Camp, Lauren (2014) The Effects of Prenatal Education and Hospital Intervention on Breastfeeding Initiation. (full text)

Willoughby, Emma L. (2014) Can We Institute Medical Trust? An exploratory case study of patient-staff relations at a community health center in the Mississippi Delta. (full text)

Saulters, Mary Margaret (2013) "Farmers Markets and Food Security: A Critical Evaluation of the Sociodemographic Factors Influencing Market Patronage in the Mississippi Delta"