Teresa M Mares

Teresa Mares is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Vermont and is affiliated with the Transdisciplinary Research Initiative in Food Systems. She received her B.A. (Summa Cu

Jennifer E Gaddis

I joined the Department of Civil Society and Community Studies in 2014 after earning a Ph.D. from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. I am also a faculty affiliate of the Cente

Guy Crosby

Guy Crosby developed an early fascination with chemistry in high school. With the help of his father he built a small laboratory in the basement of their home where he first experimented with the c

Benjamin R Cohen

Benjamin Cohen is a historian, environmental studies, and Science & Technology Studies (STS) scholar. He co-hosted the internet's only undefeated podcast about small college life, Various Bread

Amy Cotler

I worked as chef, caterer, cooking teacher, food writer and farm-to-table advocate before turning to creative writing. Many of my pieces have been published in literary magazines.

I’m also th

Craig B Upright

Craig Upright joined the Sociology Department in the fall of 2011. He regularly teaches sections of Sociology 150 (Introduction to Sociology), Sociology 216 (Social Problems), 334 (Sociology of Edu

Saru Jayaraman

As the President of One Fair Wage and Director of the Food Labor Research Center at University of California, Berkeley, Saru has spent the last 20 years organizing and advocating for raising wages

Bill Winders

Bill Winders is a Professor in the School of History and Sociology. He received his PhD in sociology from Emory University in 2001 and specializes in the areas of political sociology, soc

Josh Berson

Josh Berson’s work addresses the technological scaffolding of sensorimotor habits over epochs of 10 to 100,000 years. Previously he was visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cog

Robert N Spengler

Robert N Spengler III is currently the director of the Paleoethnobotany Laboratories at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (Max-Planck-Institut für Menschheitsgeschichte) in

Carolyn Cobbold

Dr Carolyn Cobbold is a Research Fellow, investigating food in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the mutual interactions of science, commerce, industry, government, journalism, culture an

Gary Paul Nabhan

Gary Nabhan, Ph.D., W.K. Kellogg Chair in Southwest Borderlands Food and Water Security,  is an ethnobiologist, agroecologist, conservation biologist and cultural geographer trained at the Uni

A Narayanamoorthy

Dr A. Narayanamoorthy currently working as Professor and Head in the Department of Economics and Rural Development, Alagappa University ,INDIA. His research interests includes Agricultural Economic

Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft

I’m a writer and historian. The topics of my books, essays, and criticism range from the history of philosophy to contemporary food culture, with stops along the way for coffee and the history of t

Jonathan Silvertown

I joined the Institute of Evolutionary Biology in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Edinburgh in October 2014 and before that I was at the Open University. My research speciali

Robyn Metcalfe

Dr. Robyn Metcalfe is a Lecturer in the College of Natural Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin. She is an author, producer, and researcher, exploring our global food system. She was the F

Rob Arnold

Rob Arnold is the master distiller at the TX Whiskey distillery and a third-generation member of the whiskey industry. He is the coauthor of Shots of Knowledge: The Science of Whiskey (2016)

Joshua Specht

Joshua Specht is an environmental and business historian of the United States. His first book, Red Meat Republic: A Hoof-to-Table History of How Beef Changed America (Princeton University Press, 20

Michael F Jacobson

Michael F. Jacobson, Ph.D. (non-voting), is a co-founder and was long-time Executive Director of CSPI. Jacobson has written numerous books and reports, including Salt Wars: The Battle Over the Bigg

Benjamin Lorr

Benjamin Lorr is the author of Hell-Bent, a critically acclaimed exploration of the Bikram Yoga community that first detailed patterns of abuse and sexual misconduct by guru Bikram Choudhury