New Roundup! Highlighting recent rural-focused scholarship and reporting—including pieces on the intersection of race and rurality in health outcomes, black lung disease in Appalachia, an upcoming webinar on rural voting information deserts, and more: ruralreconcile.org/ruralreview/ro…

📢 New commentary! We're thrilled to feature a guest piece by Annie Eisenberg on how long-ignored economic and policy shifts shaped political realignment and why rural discontent matters. Check it out here: ruralreconcile.org/ruralreview/re…

How can law schools better prepare students for rural legal practice? Our latest digest looks at Ashli Tomisich’s critique of traditional legal education and how experiential learning could benefit future rural lawyers and communities. ruralreconcile.org/ruralreview/le…

Our recent digest features Eduardo Villavicencio-Pinto's work exploring how Chile’s rural land regime—shaped by both concentration and fragmentation—threatens sustainability amid climate change. ruralreconcile.org/ruralreview/pr…

To understand rural criminal justice, researchers need more than stats—they need a way to grasp the social fabric of rural communities. Our latest digest highlights Michele Statz & William Garriott’s case for ethnography as one such tool. ruralreconcile.org/ruralreview/et…

📢 We're excited to share a new commentary by Cassie Chambers Armstrong on how rurality affects eviction and how policymakers, often focused on urban areas, might begin to address the unique challenges of the rural eviction crisis: ruralreconcile.org/ruralreview/ru…

Our newest digest summarizes research by Erika Allen Wolters, Brent S. Steel, Tamara Krawchenko, and Sadaf Farooq on rural environmental sustainability efforts across Cascadia. ruralreconcile.org/ruralreview/su…

Our August roundup highlights new research on how rurality and race shape college experiences, a case study on “neo-rurals” in small communities, insights on rural broadband adoption challenges, an upcoming webinar on rural health strategies, and more! ruralreconcile.org/ruralreview/ro…

📢 New Book Review! We’re pleased to feature a guest book review by Ann M. Eisenberg of Amanda McMillan Lequieu is @amleq.bsky.social’s Who We Are is Where We Are — a powerful exploration of place and identity, homemaking and survival in the Rust Belt. ruralreconcile.org/ruralreview/wh…

Our latest digest shares Hannah Haksgaard & Bryce Drapeaux’s work identifying alarmingly few licensed attorneys who serve Native American communities in South Dakota. Read more on their findings and potential solutions to the access to justice crisis here: ruralreconcile.org/ruralreview/so…

This week’s digest summarizes Levi Van Sant and Madeleine Fairbairn's work on “a right to the rural,” inspired by the well-known “right to the city” framework: ruralreconcile.org/ruralreview/a-…

📢 New Book Review! We’re excited to share a new guest book review by Amanda McMillan Lequieu is @amleq.bsky.social of Ann M. Eisenberg’s Reviving Rural America. What if rural decline isn’t a sad inevitability, but a policy choice that can be changed for a different future? ruralreconcile.org/ruralreview/re…

Our latest digest summarizes research by Katelin B. Nickel, MPH, and colleagues at WashU Medicine on how rurality and race influence outcomes for patients who contract health care-associated infections. ruralreconcile.org/ruralreview/in…

Police scanners can be a constant background presence in small-town life. This week's digest summarizes Michael Branch’s study of how the pervasiveness of scanners shapes rural community dynamics, for better and for worse. ruralreconcile.org/ruralreview/po…

Our latest digest highlights a study on reforestation efforts in the Southeast US and how financial incentives interact with local land use values. ruralreconcile.org/ruralreview/fi…

Our October Roundup highlights scholarship ranging from public views on aquaculture to political polarization within rural communities, shares a podcast rec on telehealth and broadband, news on farm incomes, arts orgs, and more: ruralreconcile.org/ruralreview/ro…

This week's digest highlights a recent article considering how lack of services drives rural depopulation. The study uses data from Aragon, Spain, to identify links between service exclusion, aging, and population decline in rural areas. Read more here: ruralreconcile.org/ruralreview/se…

Our latest digest shares recent research on how broadband expansion impacts rural land values and influences rural economies. ruralreconcile.org/ruralreview/br…

What happens when farmland becomes just another financial asset? Our latest digest shares recent work by Project co-creator(!) Jessica A. Shoemaker and James Tierney on the possibilities and limitations of regulatory responses. ruralreconcile.org/ruralreview/tr…

In the spirit of the holiday, today’s Roundup features some Halloween-themed rural news stories—do you know where your pumpkin comes from? Plus, explore the U.S. Census Bureau’s list of the spookiest-sounding places across the country: ruralreconcile.org/ruralreview/ro…