Bio
My research focuses on the sociological drivers and outcomes of contentious food politics, focusing on how social inequalities intersect with the food system and how social movements use food to resist and alter power relations. I am particularly interested in urban food systems, the complexity of food movement organizing, networked coalition development processes, and the tensions inherent in trying to create food system change amid the pressures of mass incarceration, gentrification, racial stratification, and neoliberal development. Underlying these interests is an ongoing engagement with how activists and scholars articulate and practice food justice and what this means for building broad based social movements that strive for structural change.
In short, I study food as a lens to address a broad range of sociological questions around social change, political economy, urban and rural development, ethnoracial and class hierarchies, human/nature relations, and power.
I teach courses on the sociology of food and agriculture, food justice, social movements, and social problems.
