04/11/2025

SERA49 members reported several publications during the reporting period. These included edited and peer-reviewed chapters, journal articles, and Extension publications.

Chapters and Articles

Johnson Gaither, C. 2024. Heirs’ Property and Its Ramifications. In: Elgar Encyclopedia of Sociology, pp.354-358. (ed): Overdevest, C. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781803921044.ch63 

Throne, R. (2024). A critical data ethics analysis of algorithmic bias and the mining/scraping of heirs' property records. In B. Verma, B. Singla, & A. Mittal (Eds.), Digital technologies, ethics, and decentralization in the digital era. Premier Reference Source. IGI Global.

Bailey, Conner, G. Rebecca Dobbs, Cassandra Johnson Gaither, and Ryan Thomson.  2023.  Heirs’ Property: Where, How Much, and Why Does it Matter?  Heirs’ Property Issue Brief 23-1.  Starkville, MS:  Southern Rural Development Center.  https://srdc.msstate.edu/sites/default/files/2023-06/HP-brief-Bailey-Dobbs-Gaither-Thomson-6.2023-final.pdf

Smith, Kurt W. (2024) “The Necessary Role of Extension in Preventing Land Loss through Heirs Property Ownership”. Journal of Extension https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/joe/vol62/iss2/6/

Smith, Kurt W. Cubbage, Fred  Land (2024) Land Fragmentation and Heirs Property: Current Issues and Policy Responses https://doi.org/10.3390/land13040459

Thomson, Ryan, and Conner Bailey. 2023. "Identifying Heirs’ Property: Extent and Value Across the South and Appalachia." Journal of Rural Social Sciences, 38(2): Article 2. Available at: https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/jrss/vol38/iss2/2

Zabawa, Robert, John Green, and Elizabeth Sweeney, editors. 2023. "Special Issue on Heirs’ Property." Journal of Rural Social Sciences, 38(1): Available at: https://open.clemson.edu/jrss/vol38/ 

Zabawa, Robert, John Green, and Elizabeth Sweeney. 2023. "Introduction to the Special Issue on Heirs’ Property." Journal of Rural Social Sciences, 38(1): Article 3. Available at: https://open.clemson.edu/jrss/vol38/iss1/3

Extension Publications

Johnson, Portia, Ryan Thomson, Adam Rabinowitz, and Katie Keown. 2024. Heirs Property in Alabama. ACES Extension Publication HE-0852. https://www.aces.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/HE-0852-Heirs-Property__COMPRESSED_091624L-G.pdf 

Mardis, Jamie, Adam Rabinowitz, Ryan Thomson, and Portia Johnson. 2024. Preparing Family Landowners in Alabama for Hurricanes. https://www.aces.edu/blog/topics/farm-management/preparing-family-landowners-in-alabama-for-hurricanes/ 

Smith, Kurt W. 2023. Heirs’ Property. Ag-946 https://content.ces.ncsu.edu/heirs-property-ownership

Smith, Kurt W. 2023. Keeping the Land: Succession Planning for Landowners. Ag-952 https://content.ces.ncsu.edu/keeping-the-land