Steve Jacob

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About me

Steve Jacob, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Sociology

Fellow, Houston Advanced Research Center
Fellow, Society for Applied Anthropology

Senior Associate, Institute of Applied Social Research

Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council Socio-Economic Panel
Board of Directors, York Area Housing Group

 

My Curriculum Vitae

My Research

Institute of Applied Social Research

Poverty Simulation Project

 

Recently Completed Grant Work (double click for PDF copy)

“Development of Social Indicators for Fishing Communities of the Southeast: Measures of dependence, vulnerability, resilience and gentrification.” NOAA NMFS Saltonstall-Kennedy Competitive Grant Program (NA08NMF427041). June 1, 2008 to May 31, 2009 ($273,284). Steve Jacob, P.I., Pris Weeks, P.I., and Ben Blount, P.I.

Recent Publications (double click for PDF copy):

Steve Jacob, Priscilla Weeks, Benjamin G. Blount, and Michael Jepson. (2010) “Exploring fishing dependence in gulf coast communities.” Marine Policy, 34(6):1307–1314.
Steve Jacob and Michael Jepson (2009) “Creating a Community Context for the Fishery Stock Sustainability Index" Fisheries. 33(5):228-231
Michael Jepson and Steve Jacob.  (2007) "Social Indicators and Measurements of Vulnerability for Gulf Coast Fishing Communities."  National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin. Sep 2007, Vol. 28, No. 1: 57-68
Steve Jacob and Jeff Witman.  (2007)  “Heritage Tourism and Fishing Communities: Opportunities and Challenges.”  Pp. 403-411 in United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service (ed.) 2006 Annual Proceedings of the Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium.
Gary Bittner and Steve Jacob.  (2007) “United Debate on Unilateralism and Treatment of Terrorists”.  Pp. in Terrorismus: Eine Herausforderung Unserer Zeit (Erwin Bader, Editor).  Peter Lang Publishing: Frankfurt.

My Five Favorite Peer-Reviewed Publications
I have published about 25 journal articles in my career.  Here are my "favorite five:"

 

Steve Jacob, Michael Jepson, and Frank L Farmer.  (2005) “What You See Is Not Always What You Get:  Aspect Dominance as a Confounding Factor in the Determination of Fishing Dependent Communities.”  Human Organization.  V64(4):373-384.
Carleton Pomeroy and Steve Jacob.  (2004).  “From Mangos to Manufacturing: Uneven Development in the Dominican Republic.” Journal of Social Indicators Research. V65(1): 73-107.
Suzanna Smith, Steve Jacob, and Michael Jepson.  (2003).  “The Stress Process in Florida’s Commercial Fishing Families.” Society and Natural Resources. V16(1): 39-59.
Steve Jacob, Frank Farmer, Michael Jepson, and Charles Adams.  (2001).  "Landing a Definition of Fishing Dependent Communities: Potential Social Science Contributions to Meeting National Standard 8."   Fisheries. 26(10):16-22.

Steve Jacob and A.E. Luloff.  1995.  “Exploring the Meaning of Rural Through Cognitive Maps.”  Rural Sociology 60(2):260-273.

 

Areas of Research Interest

Community

Natural Resources

Program Development and Evaluation

Social Indicators

Fishing Communities
 

Experience

Associate Professor of Sociology, York College of Pennsylvania, 08/2002-present.

 

Assistant Professor of Community Development, University of Florida, 08/1999-08/2002

 

Assistant Professor of Program Development and Evaluation, University of Florida, 12/1996-08/1999


 
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