Kenneth Sylvester

Director, Office of Research

303 E. Kearsley St

Flint MI 48502-1950

Positions

Director (Office of Research)

University of Michigan–Flint 2026

Interim Executive Director (Office of Research and Economic Development)

University of Michigan–Flint 2023 - 2026

Director (Office of Research)

University of Michigan-Flint 2016 - 2023

Research Associate Professor (Institute for Social Research, ICPSR)

University of Michigan 2010 - 2016

Assistant Research Scientist (Institute for Social Research, ICPSR)

University of Michigan 2006 - 2010

Research Investigator (Institute for Social Research, ICPSR)

University of Michigan 2003 - 2006

Research Fellow (Institute for Social Research, ICPSR)

University of Michigan 2001 - 2003

Grant Notley Research Fellow (History & Classics Department)

University of Alberta 2000 - 2001

Research Fellow (History)

University of Victoria 1998 - 2000

Ph.D. (History)

York University 1997

M.A. (History)

University of Waterloo 1988

B.A. (History, minor Political Science)

University of Waterloo 1987

K. M. Sylvester, M. P. Gutmann, and D. G. Brown

At the margins: agriculture, subsidies and the shifting fate of North America’s native grassland

Population and Environment 37 362-390 (2015)

S. White, K. M. Sylvester, and R. Tucker

North American Climate History

Cultural Dynamics of Climate Change and the Environment in Northern America 109-136 (2015)

K. M. Sylvester, D. G. Brown, S. H. Leonard, E. Merchant, and M. Hutchins

Exploring agent-level calculations of risk and returns in relation to observed land-use changes in the US Great Plains, 1870–1940

Regional Environmental Change 15 301-315 (2014)