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Faculty Spotlight

Faculty Spotlight: Harriet Friedmann

Harriet Friedmann | SFSI Visting Faculty A pioneer of sustainable food systems scholarship, Harriet Friedmann has been researching, teaching, and writing about food systems since the 1970s.  She was an early member of the Toronto Food Policy Council and has taught for over 40 years in the fields of Sociology, Geography, Planning, and International Relations […]

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Faculty Spotlight: Julia Wolfson

Julia Wolfson | Assistant Professor, School of Public Health As a former professional chef in fine dining restaurants, Dr. Julia Wolfson (SPH) studies how food preparation, eating behaviors, and policy affect diet and health. Dr. Wolfson’s recent study about sodium in restaurant meals made headlines. To learn more about Dr. Wolfson’s work, please click here.  In

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Faculty Spotlight: Meha Jain

Meha Jain | Assistant Professor, School of Natural Resources A lover of fresh lychees and satellite imagery, Meha Jain is the fifth and most recent addition to the University’s Sustainable Food Systems cluster hire. Based at the School of Natural Resources and Environment, her innovative work uses satellite imagery to support smallholder farmers and to understand the

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Faculty Spotlight: Catherine Badgley

Catherine Badgley | Associate Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Residential College, and Research Scientist, Museum of Paleontology Date: February 2017 Catherine Badgley is a member of the advisory board of the Sustainable Food Systems Initiative and perhaps most well known for the seminal article she co-authored about Organic Agriculture and the Global

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Faculty Spotlight: Joe Trumpey

Joe Trumpey | Associate Professor of Art, Environment & Natural Resources Date: November 2016 Growing plants and animals is the cornerstone of Joe Trumpey’s creative practice. His passion for the environment and innovation drives his teaching methodology and focus on design that is less reliant on fossil fuel. Where did you grow up? I grew

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Faculty Spotlight: Alicia Alvarez

Alicia Alvarez | Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Community and Economic Development Clinic, UM Law School Faculty Spotlight – September, 2016 Influenced by “rebellious lawyering”, UM Law Professor Alicia Alvarez considers what justice means at all levels of the food system. Her clinic works with diverse client groups such as an urban

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Faculty Spotlight: John Vandermeer

A lifelong activist, Dr. John Vandermeer has inspired hundreds of students to critically question the world around them. His empathy and solidarity with the oppressed has drawn him to work with groups such as the Farm Labor Organizing Committee, Science for the People, and many other social justice organizations. In our interview, Dr. Vandermeer shares

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Faculty Spotlight: Margot Finn

Margot Finn | Lecturer, University Courses Division Date: March 2016 When she isn’t teaching, Dr. Margot Finn can be found watching movies and reading IMDb. This isn’t your usual binge-watch—she analyzes mass media text in order to understand the U.S. food movement from the 1970s to the present. In our recent interview, she shares her

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Faculty Spotlight: Lesli Hoey

Lesli Hoey | Assistant Professor of Urban and Regional Planning & Sustainable Food Systems cluster hire Date: February 2016 Dr. Lesli Hoey has a boundless energy and appetite for change that permeates her personal and professional life. As a dual citizen of Bolivia and the U.S., Dr. Hoey is interested in facilitating change in food

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Faculty Spotlight: Andrew Jones

Andrew Jones | Assistant Professor in the School of Public Health, Department of Human Nutrition & Sustainable Food Systems cluster hire Dr. Andrew Jones has held many titles–geographer, filmmaker, pie-eating champ, researcher, professor, and now dad. Before the holidays, he took some time to tell us a little about each of these roles and how they

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