I'm an anthropologist who has worked with farmers in the Global North and Global South since 2002. My research expertise is on agricultural and dietary transitions, economic and food security, environmental change, and agricultural and rural livelihoods.
Experience
2011–present
Associate professor, Sociology and Anthropology, University of Guelph
2007–2011
Assistant professor, Sociology and Anthropology, University of Guelph
Education
2006
McMaster University, PhD, Anthropology
2001
University of Western Ontario, MA, Anthropology
1999
McMaster University , BA (Hons)
Publications
2019
Reflections on Moving Agricultural Research from Lab to Farm (co-author), Economic and Political Weekly
2017
They go to the city, and then they come back: Conceptualizing rural and urban spaces through experiences of circular migration in Paraguay, Critique of Anthropology
2017
Collective action, envisioning the future, and women's self-help groups: A case study from South India, Indian Journal of Gender Studies
2015
Livelihoods, value, and knowledge in contemporary Paraguay , Anthropologica
2013
Agricultural and Dietary Meanings of Mandioca in Rural Paraguay (co-author) , Food and Foodways
2012
Reimagining Marginalized Foods: Global Processes, Local Places (editor), University of Arizona Press
2012
Changes to Agricultural Decision-making and Food Procurement in Rural Paraguay (co-author), Latin American Research Review
2009
Now it is an easy life: Women's accounts of millets, cassava, and labour requirements in South India, Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment
2007
The political ecology of dietary transitions: Agricultural change, environment, and economics in the Kolli Hills, India, Agriculture and Human Values
2006
Why grow cash crops? Subsistence farming and crop commercialization in the Kolli Hills, South India, American Anthropologist
Grants and Contracts
2016
Understanding Agricultural Values and Food Sovereignty Possibilites on the Edge of Northern Ontario
Role:
Principal Investigator
Funding Source:
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
2014
Extension of Harvest Time Using Hexanal and Enhanced Preservation of Fruits Using Nanotechnology