UVM Food Systems graduate faculty members are diverse in their disciplinary backgrounds, areas of research, and forms of scholarship. If you are a UVM faculty member who would like to be affiliated with our program, please contact Allison Spain for more information.
Food Systems faculty members can access program forms and policies on the Food Systems Sharepoint site.
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Name/Bio link/Role |
Appointment | Research/Expertise |
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John Barlow, DVM, PhD PhD mentor |
Associate Professor, Animal and Veterinary Sciences | Mastitis epidemiology, infectious disease epidemiology, zoonotic disease, antimicrobial resistance, global animal & public health |
| Robert Bartlett, PhD, MPA | Chair and Professor, Political Science and Gund Chair of the Liberal Arts | Environmental policy and politics, green politics and political theory, democracy, international jurisprudence |
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Linda Berlin, PhD PhD & MS mentor |
Extension Associate Professor, Nutrition & Food Sciences and Director, UVM Center for Sustainable Agriculture | Working across disciplines to better understand food system concerns |
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Farryl Bertmann, PhD, RDN, CD MS mentor |
Lecturer, Nutrition & Food Sciences | Public health nutrition, food security and associated policy formation |
| Pablo Bose, PhD | Associate Professor, Geography, Gund Fellow | Culture, space & power, transnationalism & diaspora, urban & cultural geography, political economy & ecology, India & South Africa |
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Mark Budolfson, PhD |
Assistant Professor, Philosophy, Gund Fellow | Sustainable development, climate change economics, public policy, ethics |
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Yolanda Chen, PhD PhD mentor |
Associate Professor, Plant & Soil Science, Gund Fellow | Insect ecology, population genetics, agroecology, evolutionary biology |
| Aimee Classen, PhD | Associate Professor, Environmental Studies and Interim Director, Natural Resources Program, Gund Fellow | Global change, ecosystem ecology, plant-soil interactions |
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David Conner, PhD MS Advising Coordinator, PhD mentor, Course Instructor |
Associate Professor, Community Development & Applied Economics | Economics of sustainable food systems. |
| Rocki Lee DeWitt, PhD | Professor, School of Business Administration | Anomalies in family business including intergenerational innovation in the face of leadership & ownership disruption and the critical role of non-family key persons |
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Tyler Doggett, PhD MS mentor |
Associate Professor, Philosophy | Ethics, philosophy of mind, modern philosophy and metaphysics |
| Catherine Donnelly, PhD | Professor, Nutrition & Food Sciences | Listeria monocytogenes |
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Joshua Farley, PhD PhD mentor |
Professor, Community Development & Applied Economics and Environmental Studies, Gund Fellow | Designing an economy to balance what is biophysically possible with what is socially, psychologically and ethically desirable |
| Gillian Galford, PhD | Research Assistant Professor, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources | Environmental sustainability, ecosystems ecology, nitrogen and carbon cycling, greenhouse gases, remote sensing, ecosystems modeling, land-cover and land-use change, tropical agriculture |
| Bernice Garnett, S.c.D | Associate Professor, Education and Social Services | Bullying prevention, community & social systems, diversity, access & equity, public health, research methods, restorative justice, school climate, health & transformation, social justice |
| John Gennari, PhD | Associate Professor, English | U.S. ethnic studies, jazz studies, food studies, popular culture, cultural criticism |
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Sabrina Greenwood, PhD PhD mentor |
Assistant Professor, Animal Science | Ruminant nutritional physiology of dairy cattle; nutritional strategies used in grazing systems; Investigation of rumen dynamics using in vitro continuous culture fermenters |
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Jean Harvey, PhD, RD PhD mentor |
Chair & Professor, Nutrition & Food Science | Behavioral weight control and lifestyle modification |
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Sarah Heiss, PhD MS mentor, course instructor |
Assistant Professor, Community Development & Applied Economics | Public communication, health communication, strategic communication, food media, food politics |
| Stephanie Hurley, DDeS | Assistant Professor, Plant & Soil Science, Gund Fellow | Landscape design and planning; ecological design; green stormwater infrastructure, land use & watershed management, urban ecology, landscape visualization |
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Paul Kindstedt, PhD Course instructor |
Professor, Nutrition & Food Science | Chemistry and chrystallography of cheese, history of cheese |
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Christopher Koliba, MPA, PhD PhD mentor |
Professor, Community Development & Applied Economics and Director of MPA Program, Gund Fellow | Public administration, network governance, critical food, energy, water, transportation infrastructure, community resilience, complex adaptive systems |
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Jane Kolodinsky, MBA, PhD PhD & MS mentor, course instructor |
Chair & Professor, Community Development & Applied Economics, Gund Fellow | Concepts of demand, consumer behavior, and marketing principles to improve consumer wellbeing |
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Jana Kraft, PhD PhD mentor |
Assistant Professor, Animal Science | Dairy lipids and human health, lipid metabolism, fetal programming, fatty acid analysis |
| Teresa Mares, PhD | Associate Professor, Anthropology | Latino/a migration in the United States, food security, sustainable food systems, and human movements |
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Ernesto Mendez, PhD PhD & MS mentor |
Associate Professor, Plant & Soil Science and Leader of Agroecology & Rural Livelihoods Group, Gund Fellow | International environmental studies, agroecology, rural development |
| Scott Merrill, PhD | Research Assistant Professor, Plant & Soil Science, Gund Fellow | Systems ecology, pest management, social-ecological systems, landscape ecology, serious games, experimental gaming, animal biosecurity, climate change, population modeling, Monte Carlo simulations, spatiotemporal modeling |
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Cheryl Morse, PhD Course instructor |
Assistant Professor, Geography | Social geography, rural studies, place production, nature-culture theory, identity, landscape, youth, Vermont |
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Deborah Neher, PhD PhD mentor, Course instructor |
Chair & Professor, Plant & Soil Science | Soil ecology, biological indicators of soil, plant-soil interactions, epidemiology of root pathogens |
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Meredith Niles, PhD PhD & MS mentor, course instructor |
Assistant Professor, Nutrition & Food Science, Gund Fellow | Food security & climate change, food policy and farmer decision-making |
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Lizzy Pope, PhD, RD PhD & MS mentor |
Assistant Professor, Nutrition & Food Sciences and Director of Didactic Program in Dietetics | Behavioral economics and health behaviors |
| Assistant Professor, Community Development & Applied Economics | food policy, food security, agricultural development, sustainable agriculture, rural livelihoods | |
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Julie Smith, DVM, PhD PhD mentor |
Research Associate Professor, Animal Science | Animal health & well-being, biosecurity, agrosecurity |
| Daniel Tobin, PhD | Assistant Professor, Community Development & Applied Economics | Agricultural development, food systems, development sociology, rural sociology, program evaluation |
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Amy Trubek, PhD Faculty Director, PhD & MS mentor, course instructor |
Professor, Nutrition and Food Sciences | History of the culinary profession, globalization of the food supply, relationship between taste & place, cooking as a cultural practice |
| Eric Bishop von-Wettberg, PhD | Assistant Professor, Plant and Soil Sciences, Gund Fellow | Genetics, genomics, domestication, crop breeding, evolution, ecology, legumes, germplasm, conservation |
| Asim Zia, PhD | Associate Professor, Community Development & Applied Economics, Gund Fellow | Computational policy analysis, governance networks, social-ecological systems, coupled natural & human systems, sustainable development, food, energy and water systems |