Dissertation

“Coffee Confidential: The Politics of Food and Agricultural Governance”

My dissertation project represents 15 months of conducted and forthcoming ethnographic and interview-based fieldwork in Mexico and South Korea. My work began with an interest in how informal and illicit economies coexisted with formal regulation in the food and agricultural industries. Because of this, my theoretical pillars span multiple literatures and disciplines, with the intention of providing political scientists with a multiscalar, multisited framework for examining how our food travels from farm to table.

Other works-in-progress

"The Market Doesn’t Taste Coffee: Agricultural Governance and Taste-Making.”