Domenico Parisi
SSRC Research Fellow and Director, National Strategic Planning & Analysis Research Center,
Professor of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work, MSU
Ph.D., Rural Sociology with Minor in Statistics, Pennsylvania State University
Email: dparisi@nsparc.msstate.edu
Phone: (662) 325-8065
Dr. Domenico “Mimmo” Parisi is the Director of the National Strategic Planning & Analysis Research Center (nSPARC) and Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work at Mississippi State University. His research expertise is in workforce and economic development, community development, and public welfare policy.
As part of his research activity, he has developed a research center that conducts groundbreaking work integrating agency administrative databases as a source of comprehensive analysis of policy issues in the area of place-based economic and workforce development, created a performance management system to assist the state of Mississippi with the management and allocation of public resources, and assessed community resiliency, workforce needs, and economic risks.
Dr. Parisi is extensively published with his main work appearing in technical reports, book chapters, policy briefs, and journals such as Demography, Rural Sociology, Social Science Quarterly, Community Development Society, Society and Natural Resources, and Journal of Poverty.
For more information regarding nSPARC, please visit http://www.nsparc.msstate.edu.
March 6, 2011

