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Stephen Gasteyer

Stephen Gasteyer
  • Associate Professor
  • Department of Sociology
  • Iowa State University, PhD 2001
  • Iowa State University, MSc 1998
  • Earlham College, BA 1983
  • 401B Berkey Hall
  • 509 E. Circle Drive
  • East Lansing, MI 48823
  • 517-355-3505

CURRICULUM VITAE

Stephen Gasteyer

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Stephen P. Gasteyer is an Associate Professor of Sociology with an appointment in AgBioResearch at Michigan State University. His research focuses on community development and natural resources management. Since the 1990s his work has touched on the social aspects of community, food, agriculture, and water. This has included research on the functioning of watershed management organizations, source water protection, soil and water conservation, groundwater management, the community aspects of inland lake water quality, and small community water supply and sanitation. He has worked across spatial contexts including research in the US Great Lakes, the Great Plains, and parts of Africa and the Middle East. Recent research has addressed access to potable water and sanitation in the United States, Tanzania, and Israel/Palestine, environmental justice and emerging contaminants such as PFAS in the United States, and soil and water conservation among underrepresented agricultural producers and service providers. Dr. Gasteyer’s previous positions include: Assistant Professor of Community Leadership Development at the University of Illinois (2005-2008); Research and Policy Director at the Rural Community Assistance Partnership in Washington, DC (2002-2005); Research Associate at the North Central Regional Center for Rural Development, Iowa State University (1996-2001). He received a BA from Earlham College in 1987, and a Ph.D. in Sociology from Iowa State University in 2001

CURRENT RESEARCH

1) challenges of access to potable water and sanitation in the United States, Palestine, Tanzania;  2) Improving access to and distribution of local food; 3) Processes of settler colonialism, resource takings, impacts, and resistance. 

ASSOCIATED PROGRAMS

Joint Appointment:  25% with AgBioResearch; 

Regional Research Affiliation: NC-1190: Catalysts for Citizen Action to Protect Water Quality;  Freshwater Lab (University of Chicago at Illinois); Palestinian American Research Consortium (PARC).

MSU Affiliated Faculty with: African Studies Center; American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program; Center for Advanced Studies of International Development; Environmental Science and Policy Program; Institute for Public Policy and Social Research; Muslim Studies Program

PUBLICATIONS

Ngasala, Tula, Stephen Gasteyer, Phani S. Phanikumar. 2019. Linking cross-contamination of domestic water with storage practices at the point of use in urban areas of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.  Journal of Environmental Engineering145(5): 04019017

Sadler, Richard Casey, Jesenia Pizarro, Brandon Turchan, Stephen P. Gasteyer, Edmund F. McGarrell. 2017. Exploring the spatial-temporal relationships between a community greening program and neighborhood rates of crime.  Applied Geography 83: 13-26.

Gasteyer, SP, J. Lai, B. Tucker, J. Carrera, and J. Moss. 2016. BASICS INEQUALITY: Race and access to complete plumbing facilities in the united states. Du Bois Review-Social Science Research on Race13 (2): 305-25.

Flora, Cornelia B, Jan Flora, Stephen Gasteyer. 2016. Rural Communities: Legacies and Change 5th Edition.  Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Pigg, K., S. Gasteyer, K. Martin, G. Apaliya, K. Keating. 2015. Community Effects of Leadership Development Education: Citizen Empowerment for Civic Engagement. Morgantown, WV: University of West Virginia Press.  

 

LINKS

 https://gasteyer.wordpress.com