Profiles in "Food Sovereignty" Expertise Area
- Arina Melkozernova has PhD from the Comparative Culture and Language program at SILC, ASU. Her research on foodways, biosemiotics, and resilience brings humanities, art, science, and non-Western knowledges together.
- Adamson is President's Professor of environmental humanities in the Department of English and Founding Director of the UNESCO BRIDGES Flagship Hub at the Global Futures Laboratory.
- Vicenti Carpio is a citizen of the Jicarilla Apache Nation and of Laguna and Isleta Pueblo heritage. Current projects explore institutional intersections of Japanese Internment and American Indian urban relocation policy.
- Mara investigates Irish literature and film. Her second research stream includes research in health humanities and medical rhetoric.
- Estève Giraud oversees research projects at the Swette Center relating to organic and urban agriculture, policy interventions, food security, food sovereignty and food systems resilience.
- Sara El-Sayed is the outreach coordinator for the Arizona Transition to Organic Partnership Program. She does research in Swette's two focal areas of "power of deliciousness" and "wisdom of Indigenous foodways".
- Melissa Nelson, professor of Indigenous sustainability, researches biocultural heritage and environmental justice, intercultural solidarity, and the renewal and celebration of community health and cultural arts.
- Andrea Rissing's research uses diverse qualitative methods to explore US agriculture in a global context. Foci include innerworkings of sustainable food systems, agrarian change, and farmland and livelihood equity.
- PhD, Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology (ASU School for the Future of Innovation in Society; Indigenous Education Specialist, Labriola, National American Indian Data Center