Dr. Morse is a social geographer who researches the production of landscapes, livelihoods, and everyday human experience in rural places. She has conducted research in working landscapes, rural migration and immobility, place and identity, Vermont’s social geography, and nature-culture theory.  A member of the Geography faculty, she also co-directs the Environmental Studies Program, and is a member of the Food Systems Graduate Faculty at the University of Vermont.  She teaches Global Environments and Cultures, Rural Geography, Place, Landscape and Environment in Vermont, Rural Nature, Qualitative Research Methods, and a graduate level Foods Systems theory course. Several of her courses include service learning. She is chair-elect of the Vermont Land Trust Board of Trustees, Associate Editor of the Journal of Rural Studies, and the Northeast representative to the American Association of Geographers’ Rural Geography Specialty Group.