Assistant Professor & Director \u2028Graduate Program in Heritage Preservation & Conservation\u2028
\nSchool of Architecture, College of Design
\n\u2028University of Minnesota\u2028<\/p>\n
Statement of Interest:
\nBroadly speaking, my research seeks to frame an architectural, planning, and cultural history of urban food marketing in the United States during the twentieth century. A rapidly growing body of research, much of it produced in the last decade, documents a revival of urban food markets due to their multiple contributions to public health, social interaction, and economic development, among other benefits. Less is known about how and why food markets nearly disappeared from the urban landscape by the 1970s. While we have always needed to eat, the socioeconomic and physical infrastructures that have enabled us to do so remain curiously unexamined. I am particularly interested in the rhetorical themes of food market redevelopment, the assumptions, thought processes, and ideologies that informed and influenced the shape our food environments.
\nI hope that my research with become a \u201cusable history\u201d that may provide insights for contemporary scholars and practitioners as they seek solutions to systematic failures, like food deserts, which may have been the unintended consequences of multiple state-sponsored policies and undertakings. In pursuit of this goal, I have tried to maintain close connections with people working on various aspects of the food system from different disciplines and institutional sectors, including government, non-profit, and academic. These contemporary practitioners and advocates are the \u201ccommunity\u201d I seek to engage with my work. I would, however, like to engage other communities with my research, although I am not sure how, in what forum, or media. Active participation in your Imagining America session would therefore facilitate two professional goals: 1) to stay abreast of contemporary food system trends (so that I can plumb their historical antecedents); and 2) seek new ways to engage with other communities beyond the ones I have already envisioned. <\/p>\n
The following are some of my food-system related activities and publications:<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2018Food Slums\u2019 versus Cities of Tomorrow: Urban Planning and Market Reform in Post-War America,\u201d essay to be included in Urban Marketplaces and Food Production in Comparative Perspective, edited by Alfonso Morales for submission to Routledge in late 2011.
\n\u201cUrban Planning, the Natural Environment, and Public Health,\u201d invited submission with Nancy Wells, Ph.D. Encyclopedia of Environmental Health, edited by Jerome Nriagu, Elsevier, 2011.
\n\u201cFeeding the City,\u201d Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture 7, no. 4 (Fall 2007): 30-41.
\n\u201cCreating a Collaborative, Site-based Curriculum,\u201d invited seminar participant, Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life conference, Seattle, WA, September 25, 2010.
\n\u201c\u2018Food Slums\u2019: The Urban Renewal of San Francisco\u2019s Produce Market,\u201d Society for American City and Regional Planning History conference, Oakland, CA, October 2009.
\n\u201cPlanning for Food Systems: From Concept to Implementation,\u201d panelist, Community Food Security Coalition 12th Annual Conference, Cherry Hill, NJ, October 2008.
\n\u201cHistory of Food System Planning,\u201d Healthy Start Partnership Meeting, USDA-funded research project by the Cornell University College of Human Ecology, Oneonta, NY, September 2007.
\n\u201cPlanners and the Food System in the Early 20th Century,\u201d Agriculture, Food & Human Values annual conference, Portland, OR, June 2005.
\n\u201cPreservation Tactics and Financial Incentives for Endangered Food Market Districts,\u201d Project for Public Spaces (PPS) Conference \u201cGreat Markets, Great Cities,\u201d New York, NY, November 2002. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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