New faculty join Agricultural Economics Department
Aaron Johnson joined the Department of Agricultural Economics in the fall of 2022 as an associate professor. His areas of focus are entrepreneurial skills, sales and sales management, strategic management, and marketing and marketing management. Johnson conducts research in the areas of new venture creation, business management, strategic management and strategic marketing. Currently, he teaches Small Business Operations, Food and Agribusiness Management, and Food and Agribusiness Management Strategy. A major priority of his is to develop future professionals who can deliver value to whatever endeavor they pursue. In doing so, he values industry engagement both in consulting roles and through connecting industry and students. Prior to joining Kansas State University, Johnson was at the University of Idaho conducting research and teaching agribusiness management students for fifteen years. Prior to that, he was the Food Business Strategy Specialist at Oregon State University’s Food Innovation Center in downtown Portland, where he worked with hundreds of food business startups. Dr. Johnson received his Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from Purdue University.
Joe Parcell joined the Department of Agricultural Economics in this spring as a professor and Director of the Center for Risk Management Education and Research. His focus is on risk management and policy solutions leading to strategic opportunities for businesses and individuals to be innovative, resilient, and profitable. Recognizing that no solution is found in isolation, Parcell’s approach is to use systems design in modeling decision processes. This allows for robust solutions to agency-level questions. He teaches AGEC 751 Risk Management Fellows Seminar. Parcell received his bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the University of Northern Iowa, and he earned his master’s and doctoral degree from Kansas State University. Prior to returning to K-State, he served as Division Director of the Applied Social Sciences division from 2017-2022 at the University of Missouri. He is a dedicated leader, teacher, mentor, and researcher with over 25 years of academic and consulting experience.
