Kai Schafft
Kai Schafft
Dr. Schafft is an Associate Professor of Education in the College of Education at Pennsylvania State University and the director of Penn State's Center on Rural Education and Communities. He received a Ph.D. from Cornell University in Development Sociology. Trained as a rural sociologist, his work focuses broadly on the intersection between social inequality and spatial inequality. His major areas of research include the interrelationship between rural poverty and student transiency, contexts for rural youth development, farm-to-school program implementation, and rural health outcomes. His other work has examined participatory community development, political mobilization and social exclusion within Hungarian Gypsy (Roma) communities, and population redistribution in post-socialist Hungary.
