{"id":989,"date":"2024-12-05T12:29:10","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T17:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/utia.tennessee.edu\/spotlights\/?p=989"},"modified":"2024-12-10T14:22:21","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T19:22:21","slug":"karen-delong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utia.tennessee.edu\/spotlights\/karen-delong\/","title":{"rendered":"Karen DeLong"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Associate Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics<\/a> recognized for dedication to education and community with UT Knoxville Athletics Professor of Excellence award<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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Where are you from and how did your career lead you to UTIA?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I grew up on a fifth generational family farm in North Street, Michigan, that was settled by my great-great grandfather in 1876. We raise beef cattle, sugarbeets, corn, soybeans and wheat on our family farm. After an undergraduate internship with the American Sugarbeet Growers Association in Washington, D.C., I knew I wanted to find a career that contributed to the agricultural industry. This eventually led me to complete my PhD in Business Administration (Agribusiness) from the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University (ASU) in 2014. I had just delivered my completed dissertation to the ASU Graduate College when I received a job offer from the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics<\/a> at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. I still remember where I was when I received this call\u2014talk about a great day! I obviously accepted the offer and am still here more than ten years later!<\/p>\n\n\n