Sociology Graduate Students

- Title
- PhD Student
- Division Social Sciences Division
- Department
- Sociology Department
- Affiliations Science & Justice Research Center
- Website
- Office Location
- Rachel Carson College Academic Building, 124
- Office Hours Tuesday, 12:00-2:00, Rachel Carson College Room 322
- Mail Stop Rachel Carson College
- Mailing Address
- 1156 High St.
- Santa Cruz CA 95064
Research Interests
Food Inequality & Food Access; Sociology of Food; Food Studies; Urban Sociology; Environmental Sociology; Social Movements; Urban Geography; Geographies of Race & Space; Decolonization and Postcolonialism; Feminist Geographies
Biography, Education and Training
University of California, Santa Cruz
Ph.D. Student, Sociology, 2017-present
University of Wisconsin
Juris Doctor, 2010-2013
International & Comparative Law Concentration Certificate
University of Wisconsin-Madison
B.A., Communication Arts-Rhetoric; Spanish Literature, 2006-2010
Global Cultures Certificate; Leadership Certificate
Honors, Awards and Grants
Awards & Grants
UC Santa Cruz Science & Justice Training Program Fellow, 2018-Present
Graduate Association of Food Studies Conference Student Travel Award, 2018
American Sociological Association Student Forum Travel Award, 2018
Association for the STudy of Food and Society Student Travel Stipend, 2018
Summer Fellowship, 2018 (UC Santa Cruz)
Regents’ Fellowship, 2017 (UC Santa Cruz)
Sociology Department Fellowship, 2017 (UC Santa Cruz)
Student Travel Grant, Willem C. Vis International Moot, East Asian Legal Studies Center, 2013 (University of Wisconsin Law School)
Student Travel Grant, East Asian Legal Studies Center, 2012 (University of Wisconsin Law School)
Selected Publications
Review of Abbots, Emma-Jayne. The Agency of Eating: Mediation, Food, and the Body. Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. ix, 192 pp. In the Graduate Journal of Food Studies, Vol. 5, No. 1. https://gradfoodstudies.org/2018/06/01/review-the-agency-of-eating/
Selected Presentations
“The Politics of Consumption and Production: Moving Beyond ‘Justice’ in Food Justice Organizing” to be presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, August 2018
“Politics of Consumption vs. Politics of Production: A Dialectic Framework to Comparatively Analyze Food Justice and Food Sovereignty Organizing” to be presented at the ASA Consumers & Consumption Section Mini-Conference, Rutgers University-Camden, Camden, NJ, August 2018
“Politics of Consumption vs. Politics of Production: A Dialectic Analysis of Food Access Organizing” to be presented at the Agriculture, Food, And Human Values Society / Association for the Study of Food and Society 2018 Annual Meeting, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, June 2018
Teaching Interests
Teaching Assistant
Fall 2018 Teaching Assistant, Cmmu 149: Political Economy of Food & Agriculture
Summer 2018 Teaching Assistant, Envs 147: Environmental Injustice/Inequity, UCSC
Winter 2018 Teaching Assistant, Socy 105B: Contemporary Social Theory, UCSC
Reader
Fall 2017 Reader, Socy 185: Environmental Inequalities, UCSC