Steve G. Jacob, Ph.D.

Education

• B.S. Salisbury State University (1990)
• M.S. Penn State University (1993)
• Ph.D. Penn State University (1997)

Courses

• Design and Evaluation of Social Program
• Urban Sociology
• Sociology of Organizations
• Theory and Policy for Human Service Professionals
• Introduction to Sociology

Research Interests

• Program Development
• Program Evaluation
• Human Dimensions of Natural Resources
• Social Indicators

Honors

• Appointed Member of the Socio-Economic Panel (SEP), Gulf of Mexico Fisheries Management Council 4/15/2009
• Elected as a Fellow of the Society for Applied Anthropology 1/21/2010
• Fellow of the Houston Advanced Research Center 8/12/2010
• Winter Commencement Faculty Speaker, York College of Pennsylvania 12/22/2009
• Rural Sociological Society, Early Career Award 7/1/1999

Recent Publications

• 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.” In Anthropology and Fisheries Management in the United States: Methodology for Research (Palma Ingles and Jennifer Sepez, Volume Editors). National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin. Sep 2007, Vol. 28, No. 1: 57-68.