Profile
Dr. Salamon holds a BFA in Painting and Design from Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University), an MA in Anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).
Past Work Experience
She spent her previous academic career (1974-2006) at UIUC as a Professor of Family Studies, and from 1995 until her retirement as a Professor of Community Studies, Department of Human and Community Development. She joined EPPS in 2007 as a half-time Research Professor.
At UIUC Dr. Salamon taught family studies courses (Families Across Cultures, Family Interaction, and American families) 1974-1995. Subsequently she taught community studies courses (Community Theory, Communities in American Society, and Neighborhood Effects on Human Development).
Research
Dr. Salamon’s doctoral work examined relationship changes over the early years of marriage among middle-class Japanese women and families in Tokyo. Subsequently, her research shifted to rural issues in Illinois and America more generally.
She is interested in how culture, in the major rural ethnic communities of Illinois farmers, shapes intergenerational transfers of land, and therefore land tenure and local communities. Next, she explored the changing dynamics of rural and small towns in Illinois, when diverse types of newcomers move in.
In a series of community studies she looked at effects on small communities of, for example, upscale urban professionals and settled out migrant workers from Texas and Mexico. She is currently writing a book that examines the impact of living in rural trailer parks on families and children. She carried out a national comparative community studies in three distinct rural sites: Illinois, New Mexico and North Carolina.
Selected National Awards
- 2004
- Robert E. Park Award for outstanding work on community, American Sociological Association, Community and Urban Sociology Section
- 2001-2002
- President, Rural Sociological Society
Editorial Board, Encyclopedia of Community - 2002-2007
- National Research Council, Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources
- 1999
- Rural Sociological Society Excellence in Research Award
- 1988
- Rural Sociological Society Senior Policy Fellowship
- 1974-1975
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Council for European Studies/DAAD, German Academic Exchange Program
Selected Publications
Books
Prairie Patrimony: Family, Farming, and Community in the Midwest, (University of North Carolina Press, 1992, paperback edition 1995) http://uncpress.unc.edu/books/T-8.html
Newcomers to Old Towns: Suburbanization of the Heartland (University of Chicago Press, 2003, paperback edition 2007) http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/15348.ctl.
She has authored over 50 journal articles, book chapters, and popular articles on topics related to family farming, rural communities, land tenure, and sustainable agriculture.
Journal Articles and Chapters
MacTavish, K. A., M. L. Eley, and S. Salamon. “Housing Vulnerability Among Rural Trailer Park Households.” Georgetown Journal of Poverty Law & Policy (2006).
Salamon, S. “The Rural Household as a Consumption Site.” In Paul Cloke, Terry Marsden and Patrick Mooney (editors). Handbook of Rural Studies. Sage Publications, London (2006).
Salamon, S. and K. MacTavish. “Quasi-Homelessness Among Rural Trailer-Park Households in the United States.” In Paul Cloke and Paul Milbourne, (editors), International Perspectives on Rural Homelessness. Routledge, UK (2006).
Salamon, S. “Describing the Community in Thorough Detail.” Carl Milofsky and Ram A. Cnann, (editors). Handbook of Community Movements and Local Organizations. Springer (2006).
Salamon, S. “Agrarian Communities” and “Mobile Home Communities” Encyclopedia of Community: from the Village to the Virtual World. Karen Christensen and David Levinson (editors). Sage Reference Publications, 2003.
MacTavish, K. and S. Salamon. “What Do Rural Families Look Like Today?” Pp. 73-85 In David L. Brown and Louis E. Swanson (editors). Challenges for Rural America in the Twenty First Century. Pennsylvania State University Press (2003).
MacTavish, K. and S. Salamon. “Mobile Home Park on the Prairie: A New Rural Community Form.” Rural Sociology (2001).
Perry-Jenkins, M. and S. Salamon. “Blue-collar Kin and Community in Small- Town America” Journal of Family Issues (2002).
Salamon, S., R. G. Farnsworth and J. Rendziak, “Is Locally Led Conservation Planning Working? A Farm Town Case Study,” Rural Sociology (1998).
Salamon, S. “Cultural Dimensions of Land Tenure in the US.” In Who Owns America? Social Conflict Over Property Rights. H. M. Jacobs, Editor. (19
Salamon, S., R. G. Farnsworth, D. L. Bullock, and R. Yusuf. “Family Factors Affecting Adoption of Sustainable Farming Systems,” Journal of Soil and Water Conservation (1997).
Salamon, S. “Rural Culture,” Encyclopedia of Rural America, (1998).
Salamon, S. “The Rural People of the Midwest,” In E. N. Castle, (editor) The American Countryside: Rural People and Places. , (1995).
Salamon, S. and J. B. Tornatore, “Territory Contested through Property in a Midwestern Post-Agricultural Community,” Rural Sociology (1994).
E. V. Carroll and S. Salamon, “Share and Share Alike: Inheritance Patterns in Two Illinois Farm Communities,” Journal of Family History (1988).
Salamon, S., K. M. Gengenbacher and D. J. Penas, “Family Factors Affecting the Intergenerational Succession to Farming,” Human Organization (1986).
Salamon, S. “Ethnic Communities and the Structure of Agriculture,” Rural Sociology (1985).- Updated: October 22, 2007
