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Matthew Zinsli, a Sociology graduate student, received a Fulbright Hays award to support his Ph.D. research in France and Ecuador. His project aims to unpack the politics of declaring “denominations of origin” across different geographic scales, from the very local to the global. The total of his project is “”Legitimizing terroir for development: A multi-sited ethnographic case study of knowledge and food politics.”

Agroecology 103: An Introduction to the Ecology of Food and Agriculture was featured in an article in MorningAgClips. Agroecology 103 is also offered through the Department of Community and Environmental Sociology and is co-taught by Professors Mike Bell, Claudio Gratton, and Randy Jackson. Click here to read the article.

Walker Kahn has been selected to receive an NSF Law and Science Dissertation Grant. Walker’s work on mortgage foreclosure identifies mortgage foreclosure litigation as a nexus connecting macro-level financialization to inequalities and precarity experienced by families and individuals. This work was recognized as having the potential to re-orient policy discussions and public discourse away the question of whether blame should be pinned on the “reckless” behavior of financial firms or debtors, and towards the explicit legal disempowerment of debtors caused, in part, by the effects of financialization on legal disputes. The Law and Science Dissertation Grant program provides financial support for graduate students in diverse law-and-science disciplines to conduct their doctoral dissertation research. The program is funded by an award from the Law & Science program at the National Science Foundation to Arizona State University.

Dan Veroff, Malia Jones, and Katherine Curtis are members of a multistate research project that recently won the National Excellence in Multistate Research Award from the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities and the USDA.

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