Rural Sociological Society to Honor Professor Pruitt for Excellence in Research
UC Davis Law
July 26, 2021
The Rural Sociological Society will honor Professor Lisa
Pruitt on Sunday, Aug. 1 with its Excellence in Research
award.
The awards ceremony will take place virtually as part of the
society’s 83rd Annual Meeting. Pruitt also will participate
in conference panels.
The society’s Awards and Endowment Committee has lauded Pruitt’s
contributions to rural research and scholarship as “truly
unique,” noting that Pruitt has “brought important attention to
rural legal issues.”
Lisa R. Pruitt, Martin Luther King Jr. Professor at UC Davis
School of Law, is a scholar whose recent work explores the legal
relevance of rural spatiality, including how it inflects
dimensions of gender, race and ethnicity. Pruitt’s work
also considers rural-urban difference in transnational and
international contexts. She is the recipient of the law school’s
2020 Distinguished Teaching Award.
Lisa Pruitt’s areas of research include legal and policy
implications of income inequality along the rural-urban continuum
and legal aspects of declining mobility, with an emphasis on
diminishing access to higher education.
