Vital Perspectives: Featuring Hanna Garth with Nicole Labruto

The Vital Perspectives on Healthcare and Science series engages with some of the most pressing public health issues of our time, in a regular public forum catalyzed by a book.

For the April event, we are delighted to welcome Dr. Hanna Garth, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University, to share her new book Food Justice Undone: Lessons for Building a Better Movement. Drawing on twelve years of ethnographic research, Garth examines what motivates people from more affluent, majority-white areas of the city to intervene in South Central Los Angeles. Food Justice Undone breaks open the privilege and promise of food justice to envision a radical liberatory future.

Dr. Nicole Labruto will join Dr. Allen in conversation. This event is open to the public, and we encourage you to come even if it's your first time joining for this event series!

Order FOOD JUSTICE UNDONE here!

Dr. Hanna Garth’s research is focused on the systems and processes that impede access to basic needs for marginalized people. She has specifically analyzed problems with food access and the inequities of the global industrial food system, as well as the ways people struggle to overcome structural inequalities and prejudice in their attempts to access basic needs. Garth studies these questions in Latin America and the Caribbean and among Black and Latinx communities in the United States. Her first book, Food in Cuba: The Pursuit of a Decent Meal, was based on ethnographic research with 22 families in Santiago de Cuba. The book reveals how families respond to shifts in food access in Cuba’s rapidly changing post‐Soviet context. Garth has also published over 25 peer reviewed book chapters and articles in flagship journals such as Social Science and Medicine, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, American Anthropologist, and Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology.

Dr. Nicole Labruto is Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Anthropology. She received her BA in Anthropology and Philosophy from Mount Holyoke College, her MA in Cultural Anthropology from the New School for Social Research, and her PhD in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, during which she was a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellow. She is also the recipient of fellowships from the Social Science Research Council and the Fulbright Foundation. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins University and an Anthropologist-in-Residence at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). She is a member of the Curatorial Circle of the Ecological Design Collective.

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