Rosalie Zdzienicka Fanshel

Title: 
Postdoctoral Researcher
Bio: 

Rosalie Zdzienicka Fanshel is a postdoctoral scholar in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at the University of California, Berkeley, where they also received their PhD. They are an interdisciplinary social scientist who examines how and why racism and coloniality persist in U.S. agricultural higher education, and the complex dynamics of organizational change work at Historically White Land Grant Universities. Rosalie serves as co-director of the HBCU-Berkeley Environmental Scholars for Change program.

Education

PhD, Society and Environment, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 2025

Research Lab

Iles Lab, Bowles Lab 

Selected Publications

  • Fanshel, R. Z., & Iles, A. (2026). Campus foodscape mapping as justice-oriented organizational change. In M. Classens, N. Spiegelaar, & M. Lawler (Eds.), Hungry for change: How postsecondary campuses are transforming food systems. University of Toronto Press.
  • [Co-first author] Mgbara, W., Fanshel, R. Z., Esquivel, K., Shannon, N., Parker-Shames, P., Elias, D. O., Washington, L., & Guzman, A. (2024). Cultivating anti-racism in the classroom and beyond through collaborative learning in the environmental sciences. Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, 15(1), 199–216.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s13412-024-00995-1

  • Fanshel, R. Z. (2023). “To rescue for human society the native values of rural life”: Race, space, and whiteness in the University of California, Berkeley’s agricultural complex. Whiteness and Education, 9(2), 177–198. https://doi.org/10.1080/23793406.2023.2213234

  • Fanshel, R. Z., & Iles, A. (2022). Mapping inequity: The campus foodscape as pedagogy and practice. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 6. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2022.759076

  • Fanshel, R. Z., & Iles, A. (2020). Transforming the campus foodscape through participatory mapping. Case Studies in the Environment, 4. https://doi.org/10.1525/cse.2020.1120325

Selected Honors and Awards

  • Cynthia Ladd-Viti Leadership in Graduate Diversity Award, UC Berkeley Graduate Division, 2025
  • Graduate Research Fellowship in Sociology, National Science Foundation, 2021
Research interests: 

Critical university studies, agri-food systems, anti-racist organizational change in higher education

Role: 
Postdoctoral Researcher
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