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Jill Clark

Jill Clark

Jill Clark

Professor

clark.1099@osu.edu

614-688-5984

310C Page Hall

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Areas of Expertise

  • Food system policy and planning
  • Economic geography of food and agriculture
  • Food policy councils and food system governance

Education

  • Ph.D. 2009, Geography, Ohio State University
  • MA. , University of Wisconsin Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies

Professor Clark has a Ph.D. in geography from The Ohio State University and a master’s degree from the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin.

Jill Clark’s research focus is agrifood system policy and planning, centering on community and state governance of food systems and public engagement. Clark provides statewide leadership as a steering committee member of the Ohio Food Policy Network, international leadership as the past-president of the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society, and local leadership as an appointment member of the city and county local food board. Clark recently was awarded the 2022 Excellence in Engaged Scholarship from the Engaged Scholarship Consortium.

Before joining the faculty, Clark directed the Center for Farmland Policy Innovation at Ohio State from its opening in 2006 until her departure in 2012. Before coming to Ohio State, she directed the Ohio office of American Farmland Trust, a national nonprofit.