Lia Kelinsky-Jones

Dr. Kelinsky-Jones’ research focuses on sustainable, just, and climate-resilient food systems using an agroecological lens. Her scholarship is both domestic and international in nature. She advances this work via two primary domains:

1) Praxis focusing on the role of university-based community development, engagement, civic science, and education in advancing agroecology and climate resilience

2) Policy including how collaborative and participatory governance approaches shape regional and local food systems and climate resilience.

Currently, she is working on a USDA NIFA-funded postdoctoral fellowship with the overarching goal of supporting climate resilience in the Central Appalachian regional food system. She is using Joint Fact Finding, a participatory policy identification methodology alongside an agroecological lens to identify policy levers with food system organizations within the region. 

Kelinsky-Jones, L. R., Niewolny, K. L., Stephens, M. S. (2023). Building Agroecological Traction: Engaging Discourse, the Imaginary, and Critical Praxis for Food System Transformation. Frontiers Sustainable Food Systems.

Kelinsky-Jones, L. R. (2022). Agroecology: Advancing inclusive knowledge co-production with society. Journal of Agriculture and Human Values.

Kelinsky-Jones, L. R., & Niewolny, K. L. (2021). Whose Journey to Self-Reliance? Participation in The Journey to Self-Reliance and the Land-Grant Imaginary. Journal of International Agricultural and Extension Education, 28(4), 6-14.

II, J. C. A., Thorson, C. J., & Kelinsky, L. R. (2016). An Appreciative Inquiry Approach to Evaluating Culture, Structure, and Power in Agricultural Teacher Education Program Reform. Journal of Agricultural Education, 57(1), 179-193.

Kelinsky, L. R., & Anderson, J. C. Women’s leadership development training for [program] accepted for publication into Journal of Leadership Education, 2015

Anderson, J. C., Thorson, C. J., & Kelinsky, L. R. An appreciative inquiry approach to evaluating culture, structure, and power in agricultural teacher education program reform, accepted for publication in the Journal of Agricultural Education, 2015.