Education

• PhD, American Studies, Purdue University, May 2019
• MA, Humanities, Central Michigan University, August 2014
• BFA, Fiber Arts and Sculpture, Central Michigan University, December 2008

Work Experience

• Community Development Specialist, USDA – Rural Development. 2024-2025.
• Community Food Systems Educator and MSU Product Center Innovation Counselor, Michigan State University Extension. 2022-2024.
• Community Development Educator and County Extension Director, Purdue Extension. 2021-2022.
• Social Science Program Specialist, USDA – National Institute of Food and Agriculture. 2020-2021.

Publications

• Armentrout, K. (forthcoming). Young Farmers in Michigan.  (Under contract with Michigan State University Press, 2024).
• Armentrout, K. (2021). “Pastiching the Pastoral: Hipster Farmers and the Commodification of American Agriculture” in Hipster Culture: Transnational and Intersectional Perspectives. Heike Steinhoff, ed. (London: Bloomsbury Press). Pp. 85-104.
• Armentrout, K. (2019). Notes on the State of American Agriculture: Young Farmers and “The Farm” After the 1980s Farm Crisis. (Doctoral Dissertation).
• Armentrout, K. (2014). From Sheep to Shirt: The Exploration, Preservation, and Celebration of Traditional Fiber Arts and Crafts Processes. (Master’s Thesis).​