I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Colorado State University. I am also the Director of the Prison Agriculture Lab.
My research focuses on food and agriculture as sites of economic, political, and social struggle. My recent work studies food systems, food cultures, and social movements within contexts like prison, gentrification, and racial capitalism. Underlying these interests is an ongoing engagement with how activists and scholars articulate and practice autonomy and freedom and what this means for building broad based social movements.
I study food as a lens to address a broad range of sociological questions around social change, political economy, urbanization, social hierarchies, human/nature relations, punishment, and power.
I teach courses on the sociology of food and agriculture, food justice, social movements, and social problems.
