Bio

Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern is a human geographer and food systems scholar. Dr. Minkoff-Zern’s research and teaching broadly explores the interactions between food and racial justice, labor movements, and transnational environmental and agricultural policy. Her forthcoming book Will Work for Food: Labor Across the Food Chain (UC Press), looks at labor across the food chain, exploring at the intersections between social movements in United States food systems and labor organizing. In addition to her first monograph, The New American Farmer: Immigration, Race, and the Struggle for Sustainability (MIT Press, 2019), she has also published in journals such as Geoforum, The Journal of Peasant Studies, Food, Culture, and Society, Antipode, Agriculture and Human Values, and Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems, among others. She earned a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of California, Berkeley.  She lives in Syracuse, New York with her husband and two daughters.