¶¶Òõ̽̽ Food Systems graduate faculty members are diverse in their disciplinary backgrounds, areas of research, and forms of scholarship. If you are a ¶¶Òõ̽̽ faculty member who would like to be affiliated with our program, contact Allison Spain (allison.spain@uvm.edu) for more information.
| Name/Bio link/Role | Appointment | Research/Expertise |
|---|---|---|
| Anaka Aiyar, PhD | Assistant Professor, Community Development and Applied Economics | Food Systems, Applied Microeconomics, Development Economics, Health Economics |
| Colin Anderson, PhD (recruiting for 2025-2026 ) | Research Associate Professor, Institute for Agroecology | Community- and people- led processes of transformation for resilience, social justice and well-being |
| , DVM, PhD | Associate Professor, Animal and Veterinary Sciences | Mastitis epidemiology, infectious disease epidemiology, zoonotic disease, antimicrobial resistance, global animal and public health |
| Bradley Bauerly, PhD (not recruiting for 2025-2026) | Lecturer, Political Science | International Political Economy, Comparative Politics, and International Relations. Current research is on the politics of food systems, agrarian political movements and state building |
| Emily Morgan Belarmino, PhD (not recruiting for 2025-2026) | Assistant Professor, Nutrition and Food Sciences | Public health nutrition, food system-nutrition linkages |
| , PhD, RDN, CD (not recruiting for 2025-2026) | Clinical Associate Professor, Nutrition and Food Sciences | Food Security and Nutrition Assistance Programs; Inclusive Approaches to Community-Based Nutrition Education; Global Food Sovereignty |
| Trishnee Bhurosy, PhD, CHES (not recruiting for 2025-2026) | Assistant Professor, Nutrition and Food Sciences | Addressing behavioral and social determinants of nutrition behaviors; Understanding the role of nutrition in cancer prevention and control;Identifying strategies to improve food security among socially vulnerable populations |
| Pablo Bose, PhD (not recruiting for 2025-2026) | Associate Professor, Geography, Gund Fellow | Culture, space and power, transnationalism and diaspora, urban and cultural geography, political economy and ecology, India and South Africa |
| Matthew Burke, PhD (recruiting for 2025-2026) | Research Associate, Community Development and Applied Economics, Gund Affiliate | Energy and environment, just transitions, political ecology, science-technology-society, social-ecological systems |
| 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 | Associate Professor, Plant and Soil Science, Gund Fellow | Insect ecology, population genetics, agroecology, evolutionary biology |
| , PhD, Associate Director (not recruiting for 2025-2026) | Associate Professor, Community Development and Applied Economics | Economics of sustainable food systems. |
| , PhD (not recruiting for 2025-2026) | Professor, School of Business Administration | Anomalies in family business including intergenerational innovation in the face of leadership and ownership disruption and the critical role of non-family key persons |
| Tyler Doggett, PhD (not recruiting for 2025-2026) | Professor, Philosophy | Ethics, philosophy of mind, modern philosophy and metaphysics |
| Polly Ericksen, PhD (not recruiting for 2025-2026) | Director, Food Systems Research Center | Complex food systems issues in the context of global environmental change |
| Andrea Etter, PhD | Assistant Professor, Nutrition and Food Sciences | Food Safety and food microbiology; Bacterial genetics and stress tolerance; Backyard chickens and Salmonella risk |
| , PhD | Professor, Community Development and 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 (recruiting for 2025-2026) | Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering | Natural and sustainable material design, cellular agriculture, cultured meat |
| 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 (recruiting for 2025-2026) | Associate Professor, Education and Social Services | Bullying prevention, community and social systems, diversity, access and equity, public health, research methods, restorative justice, school climate, health and transformation, social justice |
| John Gennari, PhD | Professor, English | U.S. ethnic studies, jazz studies, food studies, popular culture, cultural criticism |
| , PhD | Associate Professor, Community Development and Applied Economics | Public communication, health communication, strategic communication, food media, food politics |
| Stephanie Hurley, DDeS | Associate Professor, Plant and Soil Science, Gund Fellow | Landscape design and planning; ecological design; green stormwater infrastructure, land use and watershed management, urban ecology, landscape visualization |
| Vic Izzo, PhD | Research Associate and Lecturer, Plant and Soil Sciences | Evolutionary Ecology, Entomology, Sustainable Pest Management, Agroecology |
| Simon Jorgenson, PhD | Associate Professor, Education | Curriculum and Instruction, Educational policy, History, philosophy and sociology of education, STEM |
| , PhD | Associate Professor, Animal and Veterinary Sciences | Dairy lipids and human health, lipid metabolism, fetal programming, fatty acid analysis |
| Ike Leslie, PhD (recruiting for 2025-2026) | Extension Assistant Professor of Community Development | Environmental sociology and justice; food systems and justice; gender and sexuality; rural economic and community development |
| Teresa Mares, PhD, Program Director (not recruiting for 2025-2026) | 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 | Professor, Plant and Soil Science, Faculty Director, Leader, Institute for Agroecology Gund Fellow | International environmental studies, agroecology, rural development |
| Scott Merrill, PhD | Research Assistant Professor, Plant and 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 | Associate Professor, Geography | Social geography, rural studies, place production, nature-culture theory, identity, landscape, youth, Vermont |
| , PhD (recruiting for 2025-2026) | Associate Professor, Nutrition and Food Science, Gund Fellow | Food Systems Sustainability; Food Policy; Food Security; Farmer Behavior; Social-Ecological Systems |
| , PhD, RD (potentially recruiting for 2025-2026. Prospective students must have a basic understanding of weight inclusivity and interest in applying those concepts.) | Assistant Professor, Nutrition and Food Sciences and Director of Didactic Program in Dietetics | Behavioral economics and health behaviors |
| Travis Reynolds, PhD (not recruiting for 2025-2026) | Associate Professor, Community Development and Applied Economics | food policy, food security, agricultural development, sustainable agriculture, rural livelihoods |
| Matthew Scarborough, PhD | Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering | Biological Wastewater Treatment, Anaerobic Bioprocessing of Wastes, Microbiome Engineering, Modeling of Microbiomes |
| Chris Skinner, PhD (not recruiting for 2025-2026) | Assistant Professor, Nutrition and Food Sciences | Nutritional physiology, Liver diseases, Repurposing waste as functional foods |
| Julie Smith, DVM, PhD | Research Associate Professor, Animal and Veterinary Sciences | Animal health and well-being, biosecurity, agrosecurity |
| , PhD (not recruiting for 2025-2026) | Assistant Professor, Community Development and Applied Economics | Agricultural development, food systems, development sociology, rural sociology, program evaluation |
| , PhD (not recruiting for 2025-2026) | Professor, 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 |
| Eric Bishop von-Wettberg, PhD (not recruiting for 2025-2026) | Assistant Professor, Plant and Soil Sciences, Gund Fellow | Genetics, genomics, domestication, crop breeding, evolution, ecology, legumes, germplasm, conservation |
| , PhD | Professor, Community Development and Applied Economics, Gund Fellow | Computational policy analysis, governance networks, social-ecological systems, coupled natural and human systems, sustainable development, food, energy and water systems |