Velasco-Palacios, Hazel, Kristina Brant, Danielle Rhubart, and Jorden Jackson (2025). “Community Responses and Adaptations following the Closure of a Rural Pharmacy and Primary Care Facility.” The Journal of Rural Health. Volume 41 Issue 2, e12896 https://doi.org/10.1111/jrh.12896
Rhubart, Danielle, Jennifer Kowalkowski, Hazel Velasco-Palacios, and Kristina Brant. “The Loss of Rural Vital Places: A Case Study.” Well-being, Space, and Society Journal. Volume 7 (2024) 100228. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wss.2024.100228
Velasco-Palacios, Hazel, Paige Castellanos, Leif Jensen, Janelle Larson, Alfredo Reyes, Carolyn Sachs, Arie Sanders, and Kathleen Sexsmith. “Perceptions and Experiences of Gender Transformative Approaches in Rural Honduras.” Journal of Rural Sociology. Volume 89 Issue 4, p. 860-883. https://doi.org/10.1111/ruso.12567
Brant, Kristina, Joel Segel, Michael McShane, Danielle Rhubart, Jennifer Kowalkowski, Hazel Velasco-Palacios, and Jorden Jackson. “Implementing a Teaching Rural Mobile Health Clinic: Challenges and Adaptations.” Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved. Volume 35 no. 1, p. 385-390. https://www.muse.jhu.edu/article/919825
Velasco-Palacios, Hazel, Kathleen Sexsmith, Celeste Reiche, and Maite Matheu. “Gendered impacts of climate change on Honduran smallholder coffee farmers.” Women’s Studies International Forum. Volume 98, 102720, ISSN 0277-5395. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2023.102720
Steven Cole, Surendran Rajaratnam, Millicent Liani, Deepa Joshi, Sahara Basnet, Meera Bisht, Meghajit Sharma Shijagurumayum, Mayank Jain, Prabhat Kumar, Kaitlin Fischer, Doris Puozaa, Alfredo Reyes, and Hazel Velasco-Palacios. “Feminist Research in Agriculture: Moving Beyond GenderTransformative Approaches” in Gender, Power and Politics in Agriculture, edited by Jemimah Njuki, Hale Ann Tufan, Vivian Polar, Hugo Campos, and Monifa Morgan-Bell. Springer, Cham. P. 193-226. https://doi.org/10.1007/9783-031-60986-2_10
Velasco-Palacios, Hazel, Alfredo Reyes, and Paige Castellanos. “Gender, Agriculture, and Development” in Everyone Needs to Eat: Introduction to Food Security and Global Agriculture, edited by Noel Habashy, Melanie Miller Foster, Paul Esker, and Deanna Behring. licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License 2023.
Behring, Deanna, Ram Chandra Neupane, Shittu Olanrewaju, and Hazel Velasco-Palacios. “Government and the Politics of Agriculture: An International Comparison” in Everyone Needs to Eat: Introduction to Food Security and Global Agriculture, edited by Noel Habashy, Melanie Miller Foster, Paul Esker, and Deanna Behring. licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
Reyes, Alfredo, Hazel Velasco-Palacios, Mercedes Garcia, and Olga Perez. “Facing COVID-19 in rural Honduras: experiences of an indigenous women’s association,” in Gender, Food, and COVID-19: Stories of Harm and Hope, edited by Castellanos, Paige, Carolyn E. Sachs, and Ann R. Tickamayer. New York: Routledge.
Becot, Florence, and Hazel Velasco-Palacios. Navigating Health Insurance for Farmworkers. AgWorks Webinar Series. Penn State Extension, Pennsylvania State University.
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Velasco-Palacios, Hazel, Kristina Brant, and Justine Lindemann. Connecting Underserved Groups with Emergency Food Assistance: Immigrant Communities. Food Systems Transformation Group, Research Brief No. 19. Penn State Center for Economic and Community Development.
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Velasco-Palacios, Hazel, and Florence Becot. Navigating Health Insurance Options for Farmworkers. Penn State Extension. Extension article (English and Spanish).
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Brant, Kristina, Justine Lindemann, Hazel Velasco-Palacios, Nicholas Demerly, and Jihyun Shin. An Examination of Emergency Food Supply and Distribution in Rural Pennsylvania. Policy report for the Center for Rural Pennsylvania.
Behring, Deanna, Stephanie Buechler, Mary Barbercheck, Paige Castellanos, Janelle Larson, Ed Rajotte, Alfredo Reyes, Carolyn Sachs, and Hazel Velasco-Palacios. Gender in Agricultural Programs: Filling the GAP. Penn State Extension. Certificate course.
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Velasco-Palacios, Hazel, Kathleen Sexsmith, and Celeste Reiche. Impactos del cambio climático desde una perspectiva de género: Resultados de un estudio exploratorio con CARE-Honduras. Research report (Spanish and English).
Reyes, Alfredo, and Hazel Velasco-Palacios. Guías de género para escuelas de campo como pequeños agricultores. Women in Agriculture Networks Honduras Project. Extension guide (Spanish).
Velasco-Palacios, Hazel, and Kathleen Sexsmith. Pennsylvania’s mushroom industry faces urgent labor shortage — and latest immigration policies will likely make it worse. The Conversation.
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Reyes, Alfredo, Hazel Velasco-Palacios, Mercedes Garcia, and Olga Perez. Facing COVID-19 in rural Honduras: experiences of an indigenous women’s association. Gender Equity through Agricultural Research and Education Initiative (GEARE) blog.
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dissertaion research
These awards support my research on gender, migration, health, and agricultural labor across the United States and Central America.
Center for Engaged Scholarship Dissertation Fellowship ($35,000, 2025)
Supporting ethnographic and community-engaged research on gendered healthcare access among immigrant farmworker families in Pennsylvania’s dairy and mushroom industries.
American Sociological Association Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant ($16,000, 2024)
Funding comparative analysis of healthcare access across Latina/o farmworker households in Pennsylvania.
National Children’s Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety – Emerging Issues Grant ($25,000, 2023)
Focused on barriers to healthcare access for children in Latina/o farmworker families.
College of Agricultural Sciences Graduate Student Competitive Grant, Penn State University ($3,000, 2023)
Examining farmworker households’ access to health resources in rural Pennsylvania.
Rural Sociological Society Master’s Research Award ($2,500, 2020)
Supporting participatory research on gender, food security, and farmer field schools with Lenca smallholders in rural Honduras.
College of Agricultural Sciences – International Agriculture and Development Competitive Research Award ($2,500, 2020)
Funding field-based research on gender and experiential learning in agricultural development contexts in Honduras.