Rate My Professor Jason Grant

Jason H. Grant is the W.G. Wysor Endowed Professor of Agriculture and Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics at Virginia Tech, where he joined the faculty in 2007 as an Assistant Professor and progressed to Associate Professor in 2013. He has served as Director of the Center for Agricultural Trade since 2017. Grant earned his Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from Purdue University in 2007, M.S. in Agricultural Economics and Business from the University of Guelph in 2003, and B.A. in Agricultural Studies and Economics from the University of Lethbridge in 2000. Throughout his career at Virginia Tech, he has secured over $4.6 million in external research funding, published 36 peer-reviewed articles in leading journals such as the American Journal of Agricultural Economics and Food Policy, contributed three book chapters, and delivered eight keynote and invited lectures. He has advised or co-advised 14 graduate students to completion and currently supervises four Ph.D. students.

Grant's research focuses on agricultural trade policy analysis, agribusiness, international development economics, and the economic impacts of trade policies, agreements, sanitary and phytosanitary measures, maximum residue limits, retaliatory actions, and climate events on global agricultural markets and U.S. commodity exports. Key publications include "Do Regional Trade Agreements Increase Members' Agricultural Trade?" (American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2008), "Has Global Agricultural Trade Been Resilient Under Coronavirus (COVID-19)? Findings from an Econometric Assessment of 2020" (Food Policy, 2022), "Evaluating the Trade Restrictiveness of Phytosanitary Measures on US Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Imports" (American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2013), and "Agricultural Exports and Retaliatory Trade Actions: An Empirical Assessment of the 2018/2019 Trade Conflict" (Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 2021). His influence extends to policy through guest editing Choices on the 2018-19 trade dispute and serving as Associate Editor of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics. Major awards include the 2020 USDA Bruce Gardner Award for outstanding contributions shaping U.S. programs and policies, 2021 AAEA Outstanding Choices Article Award, 2014 European Agricultural Economics Association Quality of Policy Contribution Award, and 2018 Purdue University APEX Award for alumni contributions.