Caroline Brock

Caroline Brock is an assistant teaching professor of applied social sciences at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Her Amish and Mennonite research focuses on agriculture and connections to health as well as formal and informal education.

In agricultural research, she integrates the socioeconomic and agro-ecological sciences to facilitate farm management decisions and outreach strategies and their implications for multifarious farm systems (e.g., conventional, organic and managed grazing). Most recently, Brock has been looking at dairy herd health management in Plain communities and exploring antibiotic use and natural remedies and possible connections with attitudes towards human healthcare behaviors in Plain communities.

Her education research centers on how to design effective nonformal outreach strategies and formal classroom strategies to enhance diversity and inclusion. In the nonformal classroom setting, she is exploring ways conservation and extension agents can better work with Plain farmers (Amish and Mennonite) on conservation issues and dairy herd management, particularly concerning antibiotic use. Within the formal classroom setting, she has explored ways to teach college courses on the Amish as well as broader issues to incorporate diversity and inclusion into writing assignments, particularly in a large classroom setting.

Contact information:
brockcc@missouri.edu