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Teresa Mares

Associate Professor, Anthropology

Teresa Mares
Alma mater(s)
  • PhD, Anthropology, University of Washington
  • MA, Anthropology, University of Washington
Affiliated Department(s)
  • Association of American Anthropology, Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition
  • Acting Chair of Anthropology (2021-2022)
  • Associate Director of Graduate Program in Food Systems

BIO

Teresa Mares is Associate Professor of Anthropology and the Associate Director of the Graduate Program in Food Systems at ̽̽. She is the author of (University of California Press, 2019) and is currently working on a co-authored book (with Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern), Will Work For Food: Labor Across the Food Chain. Her work has appeared in multiple edited volumes and journals including Agriculture and Human Values; Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems and Community Development; and Food and Foodways. She is currently beginning a comparative ethnographic project examining the labor dimensions of the hemp industry and continues to work on applied research projects with Vermont’s farmworker community. She received her Ph.D. and M.A. in Anthropology from the University of Washington.

 

PUBLICATIONS

Teresa Mares. 2019.  Berkeley: University of California Press. 

Jessie Mazar and Teresa Mares. 2020. Food is a Gift from the Earth: Food Sovereignty Among Migrant Farmworkers in Rural Vermont. In . Eds. Tamar Mayar and Molly D. Anderson. London: Routledge Press.

Teresa Mares. 2020. . Agriculture and Human Values, 37(3): 585-586.

Teresa Mares, Naomi Wolcott-MacCausland, Julia Doucet, Andy Kolovos, and Marek Bennett. 2020. . Symposium on Farmworker Wellbeing in Agriculture and Human Values, 37(1): 197-208 

Teresa Mares, Naomi Wolcott-MacCausland, and Jessie Mazar. 2017. Eating Far From Home: Latino/a Workers and Food Sovereignty in Rural Vermont.” In . Eds. Matt Garcia, E. Melanie DuPuis, and Don Mitchell. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press: 181-200.

Area(s) of expertise

Food security, migration, labor studies, border studies, food justice

Bio

Teresa Mares is Associate Professor of Anthropology and the Associate Director of the Graduate Program in Food Systems at ̽̽. She is the author of (University of California Press, 2019) and is currently working on a co-authored book (with Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern), Will Work For Food: Labor Across the Food Chain. Her work has appeared in multiple edited volumes and journals including Agriculture and Human Values; Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems and Community Development; and Food and Foodways. She is currently beginning a comparative ethnographic project examining the labor dimensions of the hemp industry and continues to work on applied research projects with Vermont’s farmworker community. She received her Ph.D. and M.A. in Anthropology from the University of Washington.

 

PUBLICATIONS

Teresa Mares. 2019.  Berkeley: University of California Press. 

Jessie Mazar and Teresa Mares. 2020. Food is a Gift from the Earth: Food Sovereignty Among Migrant Farmworkers in Rural Vermont. In . Eds. Tamar Mayar and Molly D. Anderson. London: Routledge Press.

Teresa Mares. 2020. . Agriculture and Human Values, 37(3): 585-586.

Teresa Mares, Naomi Wolcott-MacCausland, Julia Doucet, Andy Kolovos, and Marek Bennett. 2020. . Symposium on Farmworker Wellbeing in Agriculture and Human Values, 37(1): 197-208 

Teresa Mares, Naomi Wolcott-MacCausland, and Jessie Mazar. 2017. Eating Far From Home: Latino/a Workers and Food Sovereignty in Rural Vermont.” In . Eds. Matt Garcia, E. Melanie DuPuis, and Don Mitchell. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press: 181-200.

Areas of Expertise

Food security, migration, labor studies, border studies, food justice