A5024171585- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Organic Food and Agriculture
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
- Public Spaces through Art
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Social Policy and Reform Studies
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Cuban History and Society
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Critical Race Theory in Education
- Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
- Disaster Response and Management
- Gender Diversity and Inequality
- Higher Education Practises and Engagement
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
- Communication in Education and Healthcare
- Food Safety and Hygiene
- Culinary Culture and Tourism
- Cultural Industries and Urban Development
Queens College, CUNY
2023
Queensborough Community College, CUNY
2017-2022
City University of New York
2020
SUNY New Paltz
2016
The Graduate Center, CUNY
2007-2013
In the United States, number of people receiving state-subsidized food aid has risen dramatically since 2001. This increase complicates well-worn story that post-Fordist welfare state been continuously cut back in neoliberal era, indicating instead it is expanding to subsidize poor workers' participation formal labor market. New York City, office workers operationalize policies ease access assistance for who can demonstrate they are formally employed. Meanwhile, workfare programs punish...
■ This article examines New York City's war on graffiti from 1970 until the present and ways in which city's reaction to popular youth practice was largely shaped by neoliberal restructuring process occurring throughout same period. It explores racialization criminalization of who practiced graffiti, this manifested itself as a contestation over use urban space. Finally, it role cultural practices more generally relation an anti-racist discourse.
This article introduces the feminist praxis of duoethnography as a way to examine COVID era. As group diverse, junior, midcareer, and senior scholars, we developed methodology critically reflect on our positions in institutions social worlds. method, emphasizes dialogical intimacy that can form through anthropological work. While autoethnography draws individual daily lives make sense sociopolitical dynamics, relational character research across people practices. Taking aspects knowledge...
From the worldwide rise in food prices to harassment of a Tunisian produce vendor whose self-immolation set off Arab Spring, has been key catalyst world-transforming protests 2011. This focus section explores diverse ways that contemporary movements for social and political change, from Spring Mediterranean Summer Occupied Autumn, have drawn on framing their transformative practice. Going beyond simple equation identity, we examine role played metaphors, daily revolutionary practices as...
The Lancet Commissions are widely known as aspirational pieces, providing the mechanisms for consortia and networks of researchers to organize, collate, interrogate publish around a range subjects. Although predominantly led by biomedical scientists cognate public health professionals, many address social science questions involve expertise. Medical anthropologist David Napier was lead author Commission on Culture Health (2014), example, all commissions global...
College students at the City University of New York are highly mobile as they traverse city from home to school work and back again. Their mobility has implications for food security. This paper traces daily journeys risk insecurity understand why so many them regularly skipping meals on campus. everyday highlight limitations insufficiencies both public programs campus-based efforts designed address Students' attempts failures procure a decent meal themselves expose sedentary bias embedded...
Since the 1980s, cutbacks to welfare programs, widespread economic insecurity, and increased federal funding for nonprofit agencies have led a massive expansion of emergency food providers (EFPs) such as soup kitchens pantries across United States. These anti-hunger organizations are often staffed exclusively or predominantly by volunteers who empowered care their communities. But, like all caring labor, volunteer work is shaped race, class, gender inequalities. Hunger poverty motivate poor...
We are now 20 years into an extensive scholarly conversation – which has spilled over the public discourse around ‘food deserts’. Since term was coined in 1990s hundreds of papers ha...
Duo-ethnography is a collaborative methodology in which participants juxtapose their experiences around topic to parse multiple perspectives. It explicitly positions ethnographers as sources of information, not data collectors. This method has been used explore racial identities, class dynamics, decolonizing pedagogies, and gender academic life. Building on previous work, we consider our contribution be articulating duo-ethnography an feminist that allows for mutual exploration difference...