Geography Department's Spring Colloquium presents Dr. Melanie Dupuis
Eggers Hall, Room 018
For more than 80 years, the Department of Geography at Syracuse University has been a leader in geographic research and teaching
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.