Glenn Stone is an anthropologist and environmental scientist who works primarily on the politics and ecology of food and agriculture, both industrial and smallholder . His fieldwork has been in Nigeria, India, the Philippines, and Appalachia, with additional research in prehistoric archaeology in the US and in an agri- biotech laboratory. He is author of 2 books and over 80 academic articles, and is currently advisory editor to the journals Nature:Plants and CAFE. He has been awarded fellowships by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the School for Advanced Research, and the Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and served as president of the Anthropology & Environment Society. After 34 years on the faculties of Columbia Univ. and Washington Univ., he came to Sweet Briar College as Research Professor in 2022.