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Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern

Associate Professor, Geography and the Environment Department
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Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern is a human geographer and food systems scholar. She is an associate professor of geography and the environment and graduate director of food studies at Syracuse University.

Minkoff-Zern’s research and teaching broadly explores the interactions between food and racial justice, labor movements, and transnational environmental and agricultural policy. Her forthcoming book “Will Work for Food: Labor Across the Food Chain” (UC Press), looks at labor across food sectors, exploring at the intersections between social movements in United States food systems and labor organizing.

In addition to her first monograph, “The New American Farmer: Immigration, Race, and the Struggle for Sustainability” (MIT Press, 2019), she has also published in journals such as Geoforum, Human Geography, The Journal of Peasant Studies, Food, Culture, and Society, Antipode, Agriculture and Human Values, and Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems, among others.

Minkoff-Zern earned a Ph.D. in geography from the University of California, Berkeley.

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