Stan Cox
Stan Cox is a senior research scientist at The Land Institute
in Salina, Kansas, USA. His Ph.D. from Iowa State University,
earned in 1983, was based on plant-genetics research he conducted in
India. Over the next 13 years, he worked for the US Department of
Agriculture in Manhattan, Kansas, publishing 80 papers on crop breeding
and genetics and developing 22 strains of pest-resistant wheat.
He lived in India from 1996 to 2000, where he worked with the Institute
for Rural Health Studies in Hyderabad on a study of cervical cancer in
rural areas. In 2000, Cox joined The Land Institute. There,
he works with a team of scientists on breeding perennial grain crops
for future agricultural systems. He and his wife Priti Gulati
Cox, an artist, live in Salina and regularly return to India on working
visits. In 2002, Cox and others at The Land Institute founded the Prairie Writers' Circle (PWC), which distributes monthly op-ed columns on agriculture, ecology, and sustainability -- by well-known writers as well as scientists -- to approximately 500 US newspapers. His columns have appeared in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Baltimore Sun, Denver Post, Kansas City Star, San Jose Mercury-News, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Hartford Courant, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Des Moines Register, Omaha World Herald, Providence Journal, Wilmington News Journal, Burlington Free Press, and the Progressive Populist. In addition, they have appeared in smaller papers in 25 states.
Since 2003, he has written regularly for AlterNet.org and CounterPunch.org. Many of those articles have been reprinted by papers such as the Chicago Sun-Times, the Hartford Courant, Los Angeles Alternative, Fort Worth Weekly, Illinois Times, Pacific Sun, Albany, NY Metroland, and other papers. They have also been published by the journal Capitalism Nature Socialism, the Indian national publications The Hindu and The Week, and the expatriate monthly Inside Mexico. He serves on the editorial board of the Green journal Synthesis/Regeneration, for which he writes regularly.
He contributed a chapter (and photos of his front yard) to the new volume Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Yard (Metropolis Books, 2008)