Research

I conduct research that bridges storytelling, grassroots action, and critical science to advance material and social change in our food economies, our communities, and our environments.

My dissertation, “Farm-to-Place: Community Engagement, Resilience, and the Struggle for Transformation in Southern Wisconsin’s Food System” examined the processes and impacts of The Brix Project, a multi-year effort to build a stronger local food system in south-central Wisconsin.

In partnership with local business owners and farmers, I analyzed the impacts of The Brix Project on the resilience and transformative potential of the local food economy for a more connected, place-based, and equitable food system.

I am also deeply invested in research processes and methodologies that facilitate more equitable and engaged university-community partnerships and knowledge production.

How can our universities be better collaborators with the communities in which they are situated? Do our collaborative research questions and processes create community dialogue and shift power toward just, community-driven change?

I learn from and build on methods and insights from political ecology, agroecology, environmental justice, food studies, critical feminist scholarship, and community-engaged scholarship to explore these questions and themes.

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