Geography Department's Spring Colloquium presents Dr. Melanie Dupuis

Dr. Dupuis will discuss, "Abolition and the Origins of Sharecropping."  Her work focuses on sustainable governance, political agroecology, environmental politics and policy, consumption, food, agriculture, technological change, social history, theory, social justice and social change. She is the author of a new book, Dangerous Digestion: The Politics of American Dietary Advice

 http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520287488, and Nature's Perfect Food: How Milk Became America's Drink http://www.amazon.com/Natures-Perfect-Food-Melanie-Dupuis/dp/0814719384.

Dr. Dupuis is Professor of Environmental Studies and Science at Pace University.