Dr. Teresa Mares, Associate Professor of Anthropology; Director for the Graduate Program in Food Systems; University of Vermont
This talk presents Dr. Mares’ findings from more than 7 years of ethnographic research on food access amongst the Latinx farmworker community in Vermont, arguing for the necessity of community-based applied research and shedding light on a border region that is often misunderstood and underexamined.
The recording is available here.
Teresa Mares is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Vermont and is Director for the Graduate Program in Food Systems. She received her M.A. (2005) and Ph.D. (2010) in Sociocultural Anthropology from the University of Washington. Dr. Mares’ research focuses on labor in the food system, food security and food sovereignty, and migration from Latin America. Analytically, Dr. Mares engages with theories and concepts of citizenship and borders, identity and foodways, and social movements. Her first book, Life on the Other Border: Farmworkers and Food the Other Border: Farmworkers and Food Justice in Vermont, was published by University of California Press (2019). She is currently working on her second book (with co-author Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern) entitled Will Work for Food: Labor Across the Food System.
