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Dr. David Matarrita
Assistant Professor
Francis Hall 311
979-845-8522
dmatarrita@ag.tamu.edu

Education
B.S. Agricultural Economics, University of Costa Rica, 2002
MSc. Rural Sociology, Penn State University, 2005
Ph.D. Rural Sociology, Penn State University, 2008

Specialty
Natural resource sociology, community, community development, and tourism as a development tool

Research Interests
1) Tourism: Tourism as a development tool; impacts of tourism; tourism and quality of life; community agency's role in tourism-based communities.

2) Natural resource sociology: Resource dependent communities; amenity-rich communities; rapidly growing communities.

3) Sociology: Latino population in the U.S.

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