Designed to help researchers pinpoint other professionals whose work might relate to their own, this publication includes the names, addresses, and areas of research of nearly 200 persons involved with research related to the needs of rural development in the Southern region. The researchers listed are from the following states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. Part I lists the researchers by state. Part II lists the researchers by the following subject areas: administration, marketing, management; agriculture; citizen participation; community, economic, and rural development; community facilities and services; demography and population; energy conservation; finance; gerontology, nutrition, and elderly; health services; housing; income studies; labor force; land use; miscellaneous; public policy and policy planning; quality of life; recreation; research methodology; resource development; rural crime; rural development research - international programs; rural education; rural industrialization; rural safety; small farms; social change; socioeconomic attainment; solid waste and water resources; state government and local politics; transportation; and research projects of the Southern Rural Development Center. (CM)