Frederick H. Buttel

Frederick Howard Buttel (October 15, 1948, Freeport, Illinois – January 14, 2005, Madison, Wisconsin) was the William H. Sewell Professor of Rural Sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. A prominent scholar of the sociology of agriculture, Buttel was also well known for his contributions to environmental sociology.

Early life Buttel was "born on a dairy farm [in northwestern Illinois] to Heye R. and Marian (Highbarger) Buttel"."Obituaries," Madison.com, January 16, 2005. Accessed: June 17, 2012. His father was a farmer, his mother a school teacher.

Education and career Buttel earned his B.S. (1970) and M.S. in sociology (1972) degrees at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, his master's degree in forestry and environmental studies at Yale University and his Ph.D. in sociology at the University of Wisconsin."Memorial Resolution of the Faculty of the University of Wisconsin-Madison: On the Death of Professor Frederick H. Buttell", April 4, 2005. Accessed: June 17, 2012. Prior to returning as a faculty member to Wisconsin, he served as a member of the faculty at Michigan State University and Cornell University. At the latter, he directed the Biology and Society Program.

Buttel was editor of the journal, Research in Rural Sociology and Development,Sociological Research Online, "Contributors to Volume 4, Number 3", 1999. Accessed: June 17, 2012. and co-editor of Society & Natural Resources. Buttel was a scholar in rural sociology whose research focused on four major areas of study: the sociology of agriculture, environmental sociology, technological change in agriculture, and national and global activism relating to environmental and agricultural policies."UW–Madison Rural Sociologist Fred Buttel Dead at 56", College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Wisconsin, January 19, 2005."Obituary: Frederick H. Buttel". Cornell Chronicle. February 24, 2005.. Includes "Remembering Fred Buttel" by Lawrence Busch, Richard Haynes, Jack R. Kloppenberg Jr, Daniel Lee Kleinman, and Laura B. DeLind.

Offices and awards Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1987 President, Rural Sociological Society, 1990–1991 Excellence in Research Award, Rural Sociology Society, 1993 Distinguished Contribution to Environmental Sociology Award, Section on Environment and Technology, American Sociological Association, 1994 Chair, Department of Rural Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1998–2002 President, Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society, 1998–1999 President, Research Committee on Environment and Society (RC24), International Sociological Association, 1998–2002 Merit Award, Natural Resources Research Group, Rural Sociology Society, 1999 Spitz Land-Grant Faculty Award, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2004 Distinguished Rural Sociologist Award, Rural Sociology Society, 2004 Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Professor, University of Wisconsin, 2004

Recognition After his death, the Research Committee on Environment and Society (RC24) of the International Sociological Association established in his honor the Frederick H. Buttel International Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Environmental Sociology."Frederick H. Buttel International Award" . International Sociological Association.(Summer 2005). "Fred Buttel Remembrance" (PDF; requires Adobe Acrobat). Environment, Technology, and Society: Newsletter of the Section on Environment and Technology of the American Sociological Association. p.1. Recognizing his contributions to the field, the Section on Environment and Technology of the American Sociological Association also renamed its Distinguished Contributions Award for him. The endowed chair he held at the University of Wisconsin was renamed the Buttel-Sewell Professorship."Daniel Kleinman's curriculum vitae".

Co-authored books

Rural Sociology of the Advanced Societies (1980) Labor and the Environment (1984) The Sociology of Agriculture (1990) Toward a New Political Economy of Agriculture (1991) Hungry for Profit: The Agribusiness Threat to Farmers, Food, and the Environment (2000) Environment and Global Modernity (2000) Environment, Energy, and Society: A New Synthesis (2001) Sociological Theory and Environment (2002) New Directions in the Sociology of Global Development, Volume 11 (2005) Governing Environmental Flows: Global Challenges to Social Theory (2006)

Frederick H. Buttel

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