Food Studies
Hannah Cutting-Jones, Director of Food Studies
105E Friendly Hall
530-327-8479
hcutting@uoregon.edu
The School of Global Studies and Languages Undergraduate Coordinators
114 Friendly Hall
gsl@uoregon.edu
The School of Global Studies and Languages Graduate Coordinators
114D Friendly Hall
gslgradcoord@uoregon.edu
Food is central to human life. It is therefore no surprise that the research interests of faculty and students across a wide range of disciplines relate to food in some way. In the social sciences and humanities, for example, scholars examine issues including food access and affordability as well as the cultural significance and representation of food and agriculture. In the natural and applied sciences, researchers explore the biological and ecological dimensions of food systems and food-related health issues. For decades, scholars working in these various fields have highlighted important aspects of food’s key position in the human experience over time and across space. Too often though, these streams of inquiry have stayed relatively isolated from one another.
The UO Food Studies Program developed out of a growing recognition that an integrated perspective on food matters is vital to developing fuller understandings of complex food-related issues. Food Studies brings the power of an interdisciplinary approach to widely varied food themes and topics. Such an approach is more than the sum of its disciplinary parts; it provides new insights into the ways in which food mediates social, political, environmental, cultural and economic processes.
Food Studies minors and graduate students are learning about and investigating both global and local food systems, sustainability, and the impacts of climate change on food. Students interact with programs and schools across (and beyond) the university, including the Law School, School of Education, School of Business, the Native American and Indigenous Studies program, and Study Abroad offerings in Italy and Greece.
Food Studies Affiliated Faculty: foundational courses
Hannah Cutting-Jones, instructor (food studies, history of food, pacific history, colonialism, protein). BA, 1997; MA, 1998, Brown University; PhD, 2018, University of Auckland. hcutting@uoregon.edu
Michael Fakhri, professor (international economic law, commercial law, and food law). mfakhri@uoregon.edu
Julie Hessler, Associate Professor (20th-century Russia, Europe). BA, 1988, Yale; MA, 1989, PhD, 1996, Chicago. (1995) hessler@uoregon.edu
Mary K. Jaeger, professor (Latin literature, historiography, food in antiquity). BA, 1982, Gustavus Adolphus; MA, 1984, PhD, 1990, California, Berkeley. (1990) maryjaeg@uoregon.edu
Harper Keeler, instructor (civic agriculture, landscape biodynamics, urban farm director). BLA, 1995; MLA 2011, Oregon. (2010) hkeeler@uoregon.edu
Katie Lynch, professor (environmental anthropology, environmental education, ethnobotany). klynch@uoregon.edu
Galen Martin, senior instructor II (environmental and cultural geography, global food security, Latin America). AA, 1977, Hesston College; BA, 1980, Goshen College; MA, 1985, Oregon; PhD, 2003, California, Davis. (1998) gmartin@uoregon.edu
Erin McKenna, professor (feminist theory, American pragmatism, food ethics). BA, 1987, Claremont McKenna College; MA, 1990, PhD, 1992, Purdue. (2016) emckenna@uoregon.edu
David Meek, assistant professor (food sovereignty, popular education, India and Brazil). BA, 2004, Bard College; MSc, 2007, Antioch, New England; PhD, 2014, Georgia. (2018) dmeek@uoregon.edu
Michelle Scalise Sugiyama, senior instructor 1, BA, 1985, San Diego State, MA, 1988, PhD, 1997 California Santa Barbara. (2015) mscalise@uoregon.edu
Sarah Stapleton, assistant professor (food and environmental justice, social contexts of science and environmental education). BA, 2001, Sweet Briar College; EdM, 2005, Harvard; PhD, 2015, Michigan State. (2015) sstaplet@uoregon.edu
Stephen R. Wooten, associate professor (local-global dynamics, food studies, Africa). BA, 1986, Massachusetts, Amherst; MA, 1993, PhD, 1997, Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. (1999) swooten@uoregon.edu