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.
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 Mentor | Assistant Professor, Nutrition & Food Sciences | Public health nutrition |
Linda Berlin, PhD
| 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 | Lecturer, Nutrition & Food Sciences | Public health nutrition, food security and associated policy formation |
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 | 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 | Associate Professor, Philosophy | Ethics, philosophy of mind, modern philosophy and metaphysics |
| Catherine Donnelly, PhD | Professor, Nutrition & Food Sciences | Listeria monocytogenes |
Andrea Etter, PhD PhD Mentor | Assistant Professor, Nutrition & Food Sciences | Food safety and microbiology |
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 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
| 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 |
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 |
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 | Assistant Professor, Nutrition & Food Science, Gund Fellow | Food security & climate change, food policy and farmer decision-making |
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 | History of the culinary profession, globalization of the food supply, relationship between taste & place, cooking as a cultural practice |
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 |