Food Systems Graduate Program
BIO
Madeleine Jane Freundlich (she/her) is a farmer and researcher from New Jersey. With a background in common land rights, pastoralism, agroecology, and alternative land use strategies, she concentrates on the conditions for building livelihoods in the working landscape. Her research is grounded in six years of farming and cheesemaking in New York, Wisconsin, and the Maritime Alps, witnessing cooperative uses of land and knowledge in each landscape. Madeleine integrates material geography and ethnographic practices with a deep commitment to praxis-driven research. Under the guidance of Ike Leslie, Madeleine’s Food Systems PhD will investigate the foundational role of common land practices in sustaining biocultural landscapes.
Madeleine holds a master’s degree in Gastronomy from the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo, Italy and a bachelors in Urban Studies and Italian from Vassar College.
Bio
Madeleine Jane Freundlich (she/her) is a farmer and researcher from New Jersey. With a background in common land rights, pastoralism, agroecology, and alternative land use strategies, she concentrates on the conditions for building livelihoods in the working landscape. Her research is grounded in six years of farming and cheesemaking in New York, Wisconsin, and the Maritime Alps, witnessing cooperative uses of land and knowledge in each landscape. Madeleine integrates material geography and ethnographic practices with a deep commitment to praxis-driven research. Under the guidance of Ike Leslie, Madeleine’s Food Systems PhD will investigate the foundational role of common land practices in sustaining biocultural landscapes.
Madeleine holds a master’s degree in Gastronomy from the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo, Italy and a bachelors in Urban Studies and Italian from Vassar College.