Overview

My research program has been concentrated in two main areas: environmental systems and economic development in rural areas. I am currently in the third year of a multi-state project to assess economic development strategies, entitled NE-162 Rural Economic Development: Alternatives in the New Competitive Environment. Lastly, I am involved in a project to assess economic development among communities located along the New York State Canal System, funded by the Ford Foundation and by the Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development. This project will assess the impacts of HUD's Canal Corridor Initiative along side other funding programs being actualized in this region. My teaching program has been concentrated in one area since the inception of my appointment at Cornell University: research methods and statistics. I offer on a continuing basis four graduate level courses in methods/statistics: Research Design I: Measurement; Research Design II: Analysis; Multidimensional Measurement and Classification; and Logistic and LogLinear Models. I am planning to offer courses in spatial statistics, longitudinal analysis and hierarchical models.

Research Focus

My emphasis is on applied work and this is reflected in work on land use, specialty agricultural production and marketing. I have also been engaged in developing a maketing tool for small and specialty farmers to use in maketing their products.

Instruction Focus

My main areas are statistics and, recently, geographical information systems. I teach at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. All my classes have both lecture/discussion and lab sessions. I emphasize experiential learning via labs. Courses Taught: DSOC 2130 Social Indicators, Data Management and Analysis; DSOC 3140 Spatial Thinking, GIS, and Related Methods; DSOC 4991 Social Science Honors Research; DSOC 5600 Analytical Mapping and Spatial Modeling; DSOC 6180 Research Design I: Measurement; DSOC 6190 Research Design II: Analysis; DSOC 7180 Multidimensional Measurement and Classification; DSOC 7190 Logistic and LogLinear Models; DSOC 872.4 Incorporating Spatial Analysis in Social Science Research Projects

Additional Links

• Cornell University Department of Development Sociology
• Link to CALS Research portal
• Link to CALS Impact statements

Professional Activities

• Magri, Antoni, and Joe D. Francis. "Evaluation of Selected Spatial Statistics Tools in ArcGIS 9.x " ESRI Annual Conference. San Diego, CA August, 2006. - 2006
• Magri, Antoni, Ken Bauer and Joe D. Francis. "GIS as a Tool for Teaching and Research " Society for American Archaeology Annual Conference. San Juan, PR April, 2006. - 2006
• Magri, Carolina, Antoni Magri and Joe D. Francis. "MarketScape: Using Membership Functions to aid Farmer's Direct Marketing " ESRI Annual Conference. San Diego, CA August, 2006. - 2006
• Joe D. Francis and Antoni Magri. "European Economic Development: Evaluation Using Selected Spatial Statistical Tools " Western Regional Science Association Annual Conference. Santa Fe, NM, February 23-25, 2006. - 2006
• Magri, Antoni and Joe D. Francis. 2005. "Evaluating Spatial Statistics in ArcGIS 9.x " New York State Geographical Information Systems Conference. Rochester, NY October 17-18, 2005. - 2005

Selected Publications

• Cheng, Mei-luan, Nelson Bills and Joseph Francis. Historical and Spatial Analysis of High-Value Crop Production in the U.S. Working Paper 2006-23. Department of Applied Economics and Management. Cornell University. December, 2006. 2007
• Pfeffer, Max, Joe Francis and Zev Ross. "Fifty Years of Farmland Change: Urbanization, Population Growth and the Changing Farm Economy. " Chapter in Population Change and Rural Society. William Kandel and David Brown (Editors). Kluwer Plenum (Springer) Press. 2005
• Barney, J., T.Whitlow and J. Francis. "Visualizing Value Systems: Exploring Property Value and Eco-system Services in Constructed Three Dimensional Space. " In Geographic Information and Critical Geographic Research. Temple University Press. Philadelphia, PA. 2004 2004

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