Doctoral Student
Doctoral Student
I am an environmental sociologist and political ecologist studying agrarian change in northern Canada, with a specific focus on indigenous food sovereignty and climate-driven subarctic/arctic agriculture. My research, based on on-going ethnographic fieldwork and archival research in the Northwest Territories, Canada, critically examines the circumpolar north as a new juridical and agrarian frontier.
My previous work considered gender and public health implications in livestock systems in East Africa, and I have also studied local food systems in the southeastern US. In general, my research contributes to the critical sociology of agriculture and seeks to center critical race theorists and indigenous scholarship.
Master of Public Health in Global Health Practice, University of South Florida, 2016
Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, Emory University, 2012
sociology of agriculture; food sovereignty; agrarian change; rural livelihoods; land tenure; decolonization; critical race theory; arctic/subarctic agriculture
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
Fulbright Research Fellowship, US Department of State, 2020 (Fellowship year: 2021)
Foreign Language and Area Studies Academic Year Fellowship, UC Berkeley, 2019-2020
UC Global Food Initiative Fellowship, UC Berkeley, 2019
ESPM 201C Starter Grant, UC Berkeley, 2018
Center for Race and Gender Graduate Student Research Grant, UC Berkeley, 2018
International Field Experience Scholarship, University of South Florida, 2016
U.S. Borlaug Fellowship in Global Food Security, US Feed the Future Initiative / Purdue University, 2016
Scholarship for Research in Ecology, Conservation, and Horticulture, Tampa Garden Club, 2015
Student Honorary Award for Research and Practice, University of South Florida, 2015
Graduate Student Instructor for ESPM c167 / PH160: Environmental Health and Development, UC Berkeley Spring 2020
Graduate Student Instructor for ESPM 162A: Health, Medicine, Society and Environment, UC Berkeley, Fall 2019
Graduate Student Instructor for ESPM 5: From Farm to Table: Food Systems in a Changing World, UC Berkeley, Summer 2019
Graduate Student Instructor for ESPM 151: Society, Environment, and Culture, UC Berkeley, Spring 2019
Contact details
Mindy J. Price
Department of Environmental Science, Policy, & Management
UC Berkeley
130 Mulford Hall #3114
Berkeley, CA 94720
