Trained as a historian of Latin America (M.A. & Ph.D., Harvard University) with a background in economics (B.A., Swarthmore College), I am interested in food, drugs, commodities, capitalism, business, & ethnohistory.

Gruber teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in film, consumerism, rhetorical theory, research methods, and professional speaking and writing. She is also a faculty member in Barrett, the Honors College.

Nicole Darnall is ASU Foundation Professor of Sustainability and Director of ASU's Sustainable Purchasing Research Initiative. Her research investigates organizations' and individuals' sustainability behaviors.

Ligia Bezerra has taught Portuguese, Spanish, and English in Brazil and in the U.S. Her research interests include Latin American literature and culture, consumption, everyday life, neoliberalism, and democracy.

In his research and teaching, Fischer casts an educational perspective on the question of how sustainable consumption can be promoted through communication and learning.