William Lyon Mackenzie King Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
William Lyon Mackenzie King Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
I am a rural sociologist and political ecologist studying agrarian change in northern Canada. My current research, based on extensive archival and ethnographic fieldwork and archival research in the Northwest Territories, Canada, critically examines the Arctic as a new agricultural frontier. My previous work examined gender inequities in livestock systems in East Africa and local food systems in the southeastern US.
My research has been generously funded by the National Science Foundation, Fulbright Commission, USAID, UC Berkeley Canadian Studies Center, UC Berkeley Center for Race and Gender, FLAS / US Dept of Education, Berkeley Food Institute, and the Rausser College of Natural Resources.
PhD in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California Berkeley, 2024
MPH in Global Health Practice, University of South Florida, 2016
BA in Sociology, Emory University, 2013
political ecology; sociology of agriculture; rural livelihoods; critical Indigenous studies; arctic/subarctic agriculture; sustainable and equitable environmental resource management
Jones, M. W., Habeckm J. O., Ulrich, M., Crate, S., Gannon, G., Schwoerer, T., Jones, B., Kanevskiy, M., Baral, P., Maharjan, A., Steiner, J., Spring, A., Price, M. J., Bysouth, D., Forbes, B., Verdonen, M., Kumpula, T., Strauss, J., Windirsch, T., Poeplau, C., Shur, Y., Gaglioti, B., Parlato, N., Tao, F., Turetsky, M., Grand, S., Unc, A. & Borchard, N. (2024). Socio-ecological dynamics of diverse global permafrost agroecosystems under environmental change. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15230430.2024.2356067
Price, M. J. & Hall, A. (2024). Situating reproduction: How becoming mothers shapes fieldwork and why it matters. The Professional Geographer. https://doi.org/10.1080/00330124.2024.2351842
Price, M. J. (2023). Seeing green: Lifecycles of an Arctic agricultural frontier. Rural Sociology. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/ruso.12506
Price, M. J. (2022, May 11). Op-ed: Climate Change is Bringing Agriculture to the Arctic. Let’s Prioritize Food Sovereignty. Civil Eats. https://civileats.com/2022/05/11/op-ed-climate-change-agriculture-arctic...
Price, M. J., Latta, A., Spring, A., Temmer, J., Johnston, C., Chicot, L., Jumbo, J., & Leishman, M. (2022). Agroecology in the North: Centering Indigenous food sovereignty and land stewardship in agriculture “frontiers.” Agriculture and Human Values. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10460-022-10312-7
Peterson-Rockney, M., Baur, P., Bender, S. F., Calo, A., Castillo, F., De Master, K., Dumont, A., Esquivel, K., Guzman, A., Kremen, C., La Chance, J., Mooshammer, M., Ory, J., Price, M. J., Socolar, Y., Stanley, P., Iles, A., & Bowles, T. (2021). Narrow and brittle or broad and robust? Comparing adaptive capacity in simplifying and diversifying farming systems. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsufs.2021.564900
Price, M. J. (2020). Review of Civil Society and Social Movements in Food System Governance, Peter Andrée, Jill K. Clark, Charles Z. Levkoe & Kristen Lowitt (Eds.). Canadian Food Studies, 7, 2: 91-4. doi: 10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i2.434.
Galié, A., Teufel, N., Girard, A. W., Baltenweck, I., Dominguez-Salas, P., Price, M. J., Jones, R., Lukuyu, B., Korir, L., Raskind, I., Smith, K., & Yount, K. (2019). Women’s empowerment, food security and nutrition of pastoral communities in Tanzania. Global Food Security, 23,125-134. doi: 10.1016/j.gfs.2019.04.005
Price, M. J., Galié, A., Marshall, J., & Agu, N. (2018). Elucidating linkages between women's empowerment in livestock and nutrition: A qualitative study. Development in Practice, 4, 510-524. doi: 10.1080/09614524.2018.1451491
Marshall, J., Price, M. J., England, J., LeGrand, K., & Kirby, R. S. (2017). Engaging Florida residents: Motivations and impacts of community gardens in Tampa Bay. Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship, 10(1), 129-139
ESPM 155AC: The Sociology and Political Ecology of Agrifood Systems, Spring 2022, Spring 2023
ESPM 168: Political Ecology, Spring 2021
ESPM 163AC / SOC 137AC: Environmental Justice: Race, Class, Equity and the Environment, Fall 2020
ESPM C167 / PH 160: Environmental Health and Development, Spring 2020
ESPM 162A: Health, Medicine, Society and Environment, Fall 2019
ESPM 5: From Farm to Table: Food Systems in a Changing World, Summer 2019
ESPM 151: Society, Environment, and Culture, Spring 2019
