My current book project investigates first food justice. I have published from this project in Environmental Justice (lead article, 2018) and Breastfeeding Medicine (2017). My book manuscript is in preparation.
I also analyze climate activism. I published on this topic with Summer Gray, Corrie Grosse, and Brigid Mark in the Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (2021) and with Corrie Grosse in the Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology (2020), featured in the Climate Strike Educator Resource Guide (2019) and Global Campaign for PEACEducation (2019), among other outlets.
Previously, I completed my dissertation, Cultivating Local Food: Knowledge, Power, and (Trans)Formations in American Policy and Society , which investigates the way distinct racialized and place-based communities mobilize knowledge in urban food systems, and to what effect, with a focus on Detroit and Cleveland. I published from this project in Science as Culture (special issue on justice and counter expertise, 2019), Urban Farm Magazine (2015), and with the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food) for their What Makes Urban Food Policy Happen? report (2017). The Erb Institute funded this work.
I have also finished shorter qualitative research projects concerning the global epistemic dimensions of intellectual property rights debates in food and agriculture (published in Mobilization: An International Journal, 2015), disparities in inclusion in environmental impact statements (published in the Michigan Journal of Sustainability, 2013), and the ethical treatment of human subjects of research (with Raymond De Vries, published in the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, 2011). The Government of Canada, Center for Public Policy in Diverse Societies, and National Institutes for Health supported this work, respectfully.
- After working together during fieldwork associated with my book, the African American Breastfeeding Network and I co-launched WE-RISE (Water and Environmental Research for Infants' Safe Eating). Our study engaged community members, activists, students, and professional researchers in centering urban families' experiences during lead contaminated drinking water crises, through survey and community conversation methodologies. This involved community health workers in research. Results from our study are published in the Journal of Human Lactation (2021) and a special issue on Black Lives Matter at the journal Environmental Justice (forthcoming). The American Sociological Association's Community Action Research Initiative, Middlebury College's Undergraduate Collaborative Research Fund, and St. Lawrence University supported our work. Over 80% of funding received went to community members.
I also analyze climate activism. I published on this topic with Summer Gray, Corrie Grosse, and Brigid Mark in the Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (2021) and with Corrie Grosse in the Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology (2020), featured in the Climate Strike Educator Resource Guide (2019) and Global Campaign for PEACEducation (2019), among other outlets.
Previously, I completed my dissertation, Cultivating Local Food: Knowledge, Power, and (Trans)Formations in American Policy and Society , which investigates the way distinct racialized and place-based communities mobilize knowledge in urban food systems, and to what effect, with a focus on Detroit and Cleveland. I published from this project in Science as Culture (special issue on justice and counter expertise, 2019), Urban Farm Magazine (2015), and with the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food) for their What Makes Urban Food Policy Happen? report (2017). The Erb Institute funded this work.
I have also finished shorter qualitative research projects concerning the global epistemic dimensions of intellectual property rights debates in food and agriculture (published in Mobilization: An International Journal, 2015), disparities in inclusion in environmental impact statements (published in the Michigan Journal of Sustainability, 2013), and the ethical treatment of human subjects of research (with Raymond De Vries, published in the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, 2011). The Government of Canada, Center for Public Policy in Diverse Societies, and National Institutes for Health supported this work, respectfully.
