Mary Marchant Professor International Trade Ph.D. 1989, University of California, Davis Office: 311 Hutcheson Hall Phone: (540) 231-1674 FAX: (540) 231-7417 E-mail: mmarchan@vt.edu

Mary Marchant grew up on a farm in the central valley of California.  She obtained all of her advanced degrees at the University of California Davis. Upon graduating with a PhD in agricultural economics, she joined the University of Kentucky faculty, where she worked for 17 years, culminating with leadership roles as Departmental Director of Undergraduate Studies, Steering Committee member for the NCAA Division I Certification Self-Study, and Chair of the President’s Commission on Women-Scientific and Professional Advancement subcommittee.

Dr. Marchant joined Virginia Tech as Associate Dean and Director of Academic Programs for the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences in April 2006 and recently joined the VT Department of Agriculture and Applied Economics faculty.  She has received numerous honors and awards, including the American Agricultural Economics Association’s Distinguished Teaching Award and the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Agricultural Economics in Italy. Dr. Marchant has published extensively with over 45 journal articles and refereed publications, and built a research and teaching program funded by more than $2 million in grants, including five USDA National Research Initiative competitive grants.

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Selected Publications:

Song, Baohui,1  Mary A. Marchant, and Michael R. Reed. “Competitive Analysis and Market Power of China's Soybean Import Market,” International Food and Agribusiness Management Review. 12:1(2009). Available on the web: http://www.ifama.org/library.asp?collection=ifamr&volume=v12i1

Marchant, Mary A.  "Beginning Teaching at a University:  The Ultimate On-The-Job Training Program."  Editor’s Selected Reprint. North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture (NACTA) Journal.  51:4 (Dec. 2007):62-64.  Originally printed in the NACTA Journal.  37:1(March 1993):16-18.

Zhuang, Jun,1  Mary A. Marchant, Sue E. Nokes, and Herbert J. Strobel.  "Economic Analysis of Cellulase Production Methods for Bio-ethanol: Comparison of Liquid versus Solid State Cultivation Approaches.” Applied Engineering in Ag. 23:5(Oct. 2007):679-87.  http://asae.frymulti.com/abstract.asp?aid=23659&t=1

Peng, Xuehua,1 Mary A. Marchant, Xiang Dong Qin, and Jun Zhuang.1 “Chinese Consumers’ Preferences for Livestock Products.”  International Food and Agribusiness Management Review, 8:4(October 2005):62-76.  Available on the web:http://purl.umn.edu/8134

Marchant, Mary A., and Baohui Song. “Assessment of Biotechnology Policies and International Trade in Key Markets for U.S. Agriculture.” Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics. 37:2 (August 2005):379-391 Available on the web: http://purl.umn.edu/43513

Marchant, Mary A., and Sanjeev Kumar. “An Overview of U.S. Foreign Direct Investment and Outsourcing.” Review of Agricultural Economics, 27:3(Fall 2005), 379-386. Available on the web: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/118707794/PDFSTART

Zhuang, Jun,1 Mary A. Marchant, Christopher L. Schardl, and Courtney Murrell Butler. 1 “Economic Analysis of Replacing Endophyte-Infected with Endophyte-Free Tall Fescue Pastures.” Agronomy Journal, 97:3(May-June 2005):711-716.  Available on the web: http://agron.scijournals.org/cgi/content/full/97/3/711

Zhang, Guilin, Michael Reed, Mary A. Marchant, and Baohui Song.1 “Chinese Agricultural Products Entering U.S. Markets After WTO Accession.” China and World Economy, 12:4(2004):66-78.

Seale, James L., Mary A. Marchant, and Alberto Basso. “Imports versus Domestic Production: A Demand System Analysis of the U.S. Red Wine Market.” Review of Agricultural Economics. 25:1 (Spring/Summer, 2003):187-202. Available on the Web: http://www.blackwellsynergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-9353.00053

Marchant, Mary A., Cheng Fang, and Baohui Song.  “Issues on Adoption, Import Regulations, and Policies for Biotech Commodities in China with a Focus on Soybeans.”  AgBioForum. 5:4(2002):167-174.  Available on the Web: http://www.agbioforum.org/v5n4/v5n4a05-marchant.htm

Zhong, Funing, Mary A. Marchant, Yulian Ding, and Kaiyu Lu.  “GM Foods:  A Nanjing Case Study of Chinese Consumers’ Awareness and Potential Attitudes.” AgBioForum. 5:4(2002):136-44.  Available on the web:  http://www.agbioforum.org/v5n4/v5n4a02-zhong.htm

Marchant, Mary A., Dyana N. Cornell,1  and Won Koo.  “International Trade and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI).” Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics. 34:2(2002):289-302.  On web: http://purl.umn.edu/15471

Saghaian, Sayed H., Michael R. Reed, and Mary A. Marchant.  “Monetary Impacts and Overshooting of Agricultural Prices in an Open Economy.”  American Journal of Agricultural Economics (AJAE).  84:1(2002):90-103.  Available on the web: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118936870/abstract

Zepeda, Lydia, and Mary A. Marchant.  “Bigger, Smaller, Richer, Poorer:  Trends in Agricultural Economics.” Review of Agricultural Economics. 20:2(1998):406-21. Available on the web: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1349998

Guest Journal Editor:

Marchant, Mary A., and Francis Tuan, guest editors, AgBioForum:  The Journal of Agrobiotechnology Management and Economics.  “Special Issue:  Agricultural Biotechnology in China,” 2002 (178 pages).  Available on the World Wide Web: http://www.agbioforum.org/v5n4/index.htm

Diversity Publication:

University of Kentucky, College of Agriculture. Diversity Task Force Report, Mary A. Marchant, Chair.  Diversity Issues in the College of Agriculture, April 2003. (83 pages) Available on web at http://dobson.ca.uky.edu/admin/Diversityrpt.pdf

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