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.
Name/Bio link/Role | Appointment | Research/Expertise |
|---|---|---|
Dan Baker, PhD | Associate Professor, Community Development and Applied Economics | rural development, dairy labor, Latinx farmworkers, "panela" artisinal sugar, low-input technology transfer, emergency management, resilience planning, project-based learning |
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 |
MS & PhD Mentor | Assistant Professor, Nutrition & Food Sciences | Public health nutrition, food system-nutrition linkages |
Linda Berlin, PhD (not recruiting 21-22)
| Extension Associate Professor, Nutrition & Food Sciences and Director, UVM Center for Sustainable Agriculture | Working across disciplines to better understand food system concerns |
Farryl Bertmann, PhD, RDN, CD MS Mentor (not recruiting 21-22) | Lecturer, Nutrition & Food Sciences | Food Security & Nutrition Assistance Programs; Inclusive Approaches to Community-Based Nutrition Education; Global Food Sovereignty |
Pablo Bose, PhD PhD & MS Mentor | Associate Professor, Geography, Gund Fellow | Culture, space & power, transnationalism & diaspora, urban & cultural geography, political economy & ecology, India & South Africa |
Lisa Chase, PhD | Extension Professor: Natural Resources Specialist and Director of the Vermont Tourism Research Center | Community development, tourism and recreation, food systems, environmental conflict management |
Yolanda Chen, PhD PhD Mentor, Recruiting for Fall 2022 | Associate Professor, Plant & Soil Science, Gund Fellow | Insect ecology, population genetics, agroecology, evolutionary biology |
David Conner, PhD PhD & MS 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 |
Tyler Doggett, PhD MS Mentor, Course Instructor | Professor, Philosophy | Ethics, philosophy of mind, modern philosophy and metaphysics |
Andrea Etter, PhD PhD Mentor | Assistant Professor, Nutrition & Food Sciences | Food Safety and food microbiology; Bacterial genetics and stress tolerance; Backyard chickens and Salmonella risk |
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 |
Rachael Floreani, PhD | Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering | Biomaterials Engineering, Sustainable Materials, Medical Device Design, Tissue Engineering |
Gillian Galford, PhD PhD Mentor | 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 PhD Mentor | 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 | Professor, English | U.S. ethnic studies, jazz studies, food studies, popular culture, cultural criticism |
Sabrina Greenwood, PhD PhD Mentor | Associate Professor, Animal and Veterinary Sciences | Ruminant nutritional physiology of dairy cattle; nutritional strategies used in grazing systems; Investigation of rumen dynamics using in vitro continuous culture fermenters |
Jean Harvey, PhD, RD (not recruiting 21-22)
| Associate Dean, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences; Professor, Nutrition & Food Science | Behavioral weight control and lifestyle modification |
Sarah Heiss, PhD MS Mentor, Course Instructor | Associate Professor, Community Development & Applied Economics | Public communication, health communication, strategic communication, food media, food politics |
| Stephanie Hurley, DDeS | Associate Professor, Plant & Soil Science, Gund Fellow | Landscape design and planning; ecological design; green stormwater infrastructure, land use & watershed management, urban ecology, landscape visualization |
| Simon Jorgenson, PhD | Associate Professor, Education | Curriculum and Instruction, Educational policy, History, philosophy and sociology of education, STEM |
Paul Kindstedt, PhD | Professor, Nutrition & Food Science | Chemistry and chrystallography of cheese, history of cheese |
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 |
Jane Kolodinsky, MBA, PhD PhD & MS Mentor | Chair & Professor, Community Development & Applied Economics, Gund Fellow | Concepts of demand, consumer behavior, and marketing principles to improve consumer wellbeing |
Jana Kraft, PhD PhD Mentor | Associate Professor, Animal and Veterinary Sciences | Dairy lipids and human health, lipid metabolism, fetal programming, fatty acid analysis |
Teresa Mares, PhD Associate Director | Associate Professor, Anthropology | Latino/a migration in the United States, food security, sustainable food systems, and human movements |
Cristina Mazzoni, PhD | Wolfgang and Barbara Mieder Green and Gold Professor of Italian | European Fairy Tales, Literature and Spirituality, Food Culture |
Ernesto Mendez, PhD PhD & MS Mentor | Professor and Chair, 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 |
Cheryl Morse, PhD Course Instructor | Associate Professor, Geography | Social geography, rural studies, place production, nature-culture theory, identity, landscape, youth, Vermont |
Deborah Neher, PhD PhD Mentor | Professor, Plant & Soil Science | Soil ecology, biological indicators of soil, plant-soil interactions, epidemiology of root pathogens |
Meredith Niles, PhD PhD & MS Mentor, Course Instructor | Associate Professor, Nutrition & Food Science, Gund Fellow | Food Systems Sustainability; Food Policy; Food Security; Farmer Behavior; Social-Ecological Systems |
Elizabeth Pinel, PhD | Professor, Undergraduate Director, Psychological Sciences | Relationship between food and society, social and cultural influences on what people eat, when people eat, and how people change what they eat |
Lizzy Pope, PhD, RD PhD & MS Mentor | Assistant Professor, Nutrition & Food Sciences and Director of Didactic Program in Dietetics | Behavioral economics and health behaviors |
PhD & MS Mentor, Course Instructor | Assistant Professor, Community Development & Applied Economics | food policy, food security, agricultural development, sustainable agriculture, rural livelihoods |
Julie Smith, DVM, PhD PhD Mentor | Research Associate Professor, Animal Science | Animal health & well-being, biosecurity, agrosecurity |
Daniel Tobin, PhD MS Mentor | Assistant Professor, Community Development & Applied Economics | Agricultural development, food systems, development sociology, rural sociology, program evaluation |
Amy Trubek, PhD PhD & MS Mentor | Professor and Chair, Nutrition and Food Sciences | Taste of Place; Culinary History and Anthropology; Food Supply Chains |
M. D. Usher, PhD | Lyman-Roberts Professor of Classics, Department of Classics | Greek and Latin literature, ancient philosophy, orality studies, sustainable systems in antiquity |
Program Director | Assistant Professor, Plant and Soil Sciences, Gund Fellow | Genetics, genomics, domestication, crop breeding, evolution, ecology, legumes, germplasm, conservation |
| Asim Zia, PhD | 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 |