Roman Keeney began his appointment with the agricultural economics
faculty of Purdue University in August 2005 as assistant professor
of farm and rural household economics. Prior to that Roman was a
Ph.D. student in the Purdue AgEcon department. Roman’s research
program explores how farm households and rural residents respond to
and are impacted by changes to farm and farm related policies. Roman
has worked extensively on the interaction between U.S. domestic farm
programs and international trade barriers, focusing in particular on
the distribution of gains and losses across the population of U.S.
farmers. Recently, Roman has taken on Extension responsibilities for
analysis and education of farm payment programs. In addition to
research and Extension, Roman teaches the department’s undergraduate
math programming course and graduate level production economics
course.
Roman grew up on a cow-calf farm in central
Kentucky and received a B.S. degree from the University of Kentucky
in Biology. He subsequently completed B.S. and M.S. degree programs
in Agribusiness Economics at Southern Illinois University in
Carbondale, Illinois before moving on to Purdue for his doctoral
studies and initial faculty appointment. Roman and his wife, Lori,
have two sons—Travis and Lucas.