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Introduction: Thomas A. Lyson—a biographical note

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Acknowledgments

For this essay I have drawn from memorial statements written for The Rural Sociologist (Gillespie and Falk 2007), Agriculture and Human Values (Gillespie 2007) and “Memorial Statements of the Cornell University Faculty 2006–2007”. I acknowledge the contributions of William Falk, Charles Tolbert, Philip McMichael, and Charles Geisler as co-authors and informants in these works. I also acknowledge personal communications from Harry K. Schwarzweller, C. Clare Hinrichs, Lois Wright Morton, Kenneth Robinson, Mildred Warner, and Rick Welsh. This article also draws significantly from Melanie Stansbury’s video interview (camera work by Nosheen Ali) with Tom Lyson conducted on May 5, 2005. This was Stansbury’s course project for a Development Sociology video sociology course taught by Linda Williams and Jamie Herring. It documents in Lyson’s own words his background and development as a sociologist. This video added new dimensions and insights to what I had learned over 16 years from conversations with him and I have been grateful to have it as a resource.

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Gillespie, G.W. Introduction: Thomas A. Lyson—a biographical note. Agric Hum Values 26, 15–19 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-008-9183-4

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