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.
  • Prof. Vitullo studies medieval, early modern, and contemporary Italian cultures. Her current community-based scholarship and teaching focus on how to preserve traditional foodways for healthier & more sustainable futures.
  • 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 leads the Swette Center's collaborations with Arizona producers and stakeholders to advance organic agriculture and cultivate a stronger local food system.
  • Carly Wyman researches Hawaiʻi food system solutions such as restoring traditional fishponds, improving food processing infrastructure, and supporting small and native farmers.
  • 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.