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Naomi Shanguhyia

(Pronouns: She, Her)

Contact Information:

nyshangu@syr.edu

Naomi Shanguhyia

Associate Teaching Professor, Geography and the Environment Department


Senior Research Associate, Maxwell African Scholars Union

Courses

  • 2025 Fall
    • FST 102 Food Fights: Contemporary Food Issues
    • FST 486 Food Studies Practicum
    • MAX 132 Global Community
    • FST 375 Practicum Pre-Planning
  • 2025 Spring
    • FST 102 Food Fights: Contemporary Food Issues
    • FST 486 Food Studies Practicum
    • FST 204 Food, Identity, and Power
    • FST 797 Practicum in Food Studies and Systems
    • FST 375 Practicum Pre-Planning
    • HNR 360 Topics in the Social Sciences Honors - Hunger & Food Sovereignty Afri
  • 2024 Fall
    • FST 102 Food Fights: Contemporary Food Issues
    • FST 486 Food Studies Practicum
    • FST 204 Food, Identity, and Power
    • FST 797 Practicum in Food Studies and Systems
    • FST 375/675 Practicum Pre-Planning
  • 2024 Spring
    • FST 102 Food Fights: Contemporary Food Issues
    • FST 486 Food Studies Practicum
    • FST 204 Food, Identity, and Power
    • FST 797 Practicum in Food Studies and Systems
    • FST 375 Practicum Pre-Planning
    • HNR 360 Topics in the Social Sciences Honors - Hunger & Food Sovereignty Afri

Highest degree earned

Ph.D., West Virginia University, 2013

Research Grant Awards and Projects

"Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Thought Leadership Partnership with Syracuse University's Lender Center", Sponsored by MetLife Foundation.

"Land Use Change as an Adaptation Strategy to Coupled Climate and Economic Change in Rural Western Kenya: Implications for Vulnerability Reduction", Sponsored by National Science Foundation (NSF).

"Doctoral Dissertation Travel Supplementary Grant", Sponsored by West Virginia University Department of Geology & Geography.

"Global Education Opportunities Grant", Sponsored by West Virginia University Office of International Programs.

"HERF Supplementary Fellowship", Sponsored by West Virginia University .

Selected Publications

  • Journal Article
    • Shanguhyia, N. Y., McCusker, B., "Chronic Food Insecurity in Kenya’s ASAL Areas: Naturalizing Uneven Development through Depeasantization and Deproletarianization." Human Geography: A Radical Journal, 2013.
  • Dissertations
    • Shanguhyia, N. Y., Dialectics of Rural Change: A Political Economy of Livelihoods and Landscape Change in Western Kenya. , 2013.
    • Shanguhyia, N. Y., State Policy and Food Insecurity in Kenya’s ASAL Regions. , 2008.
  • Technical Report
    • Kennedy, K., Faulkner, C., Edwards, K., Maye, M., Salomone, K., Shanguhyia, N. Y. and Sloane, J., Educational Excellence Subcommittee Strategic Planning Recommendation Report. , 2017.
  • Thesis
    • Shanguhyia, N. Y., Improved Woodstove Use and Intra-household Resource Allocation among Rural Households in Vihiga – Kenya. , 2001.

Presentations and Events

Shanguhyia, N. Y., Oppong, M., 2026 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, "Cultural Food Security and Resilience Among Refugee Families in Syracuse, NY: Understanding Dietary Adaptation and Co-Designing Culturally Sensitive Meal Interventions " (December, 2025)

Mutambudzi, M. S., Shanguhyia, N. Y., Lender Center for Social Justice NYC Convening, Syracuse University Lender Center/MetLife Foundation, "Improving Health in Refugee Populations Through Culturally Relevant Meal Interventions" (June 3, 2025)

OXFAM Hunger Banquet, Syracuse University OXFAM Chapter, "The Right to Food & Food Security" (November, 2023)

International Studies Summer Institute Workshop for K-12 Teachers, Cornell University, "COVID-19 and Food Security in Africa" (June 30, 2020)

Prof. Masood Hyder's PAI 700: Food Security Class (Maxwell School), "Small Scale Farming and the Role of Women in Food Production in Africa" (April 18, 2019)