Garrett Graddy-Lovelace Provost Assoc Professor School of International Service
- Additional Positions at AU
- Faculty Affiliate, Antiracist Research & Policy Center
- Co-Founding Lead, Ethnographies of Empire Research Cluster
- Co-Founding Associate Director, Center for Environment, Community & Equity
- Degrees
- University of Kentucky, Doctorate of Philosophy, Geography; Harvard Divinity School, Master of Theological Studies; Yale University, Bachelor of Arts, cum laude
- Favorite Spot on Campus
- AU Community Garden
- Favorite Place in Washington DC
- the mighty Potomac River
- Bio
- Garrett Graddy-Lovelace researches and teaches agricultural policy and agrarian politics. A critical geographer, she draws upon political ecology and decolonial studies to research agricultural biodiversity conservation, agrarian cooperatives, land use decisions, and domestic and global impacts of US farm policies. This includes community-based research-action with grassroots groups on the Farm Bill (see disparitytoparity.org project). Her forthcoming book, The Power of Seeds & Politics of Agricultural Biodiversity, is with M.I.T. Press. She is co-PI for a SESYNC-NSF Pursuit, entitled "Diverse Pathways to Nourishment: Understanding How Agricultural Biodiversity Enhances Food Security, Sovereignty and Nutrition" and Senior Personnel for AU's $15M NSF RECIPES grant on Wasted Food. She was awarded the inaugural Provost Associate Professor title, the 2022 School of International Scholar-Teacher of the Year Award, and the SIS Excellence in PhD Mentoring Award. Graddy-Lovelace co-founded and co-leads School of International Service's Ethnographies of Empire Research Cluster, and the nation-wide Agroecology Research-Action Collective. She is a Faculty Affiliate for AU's Antiracist Research & Policy Center and Associate Director for the new Center for Environment, Community & Equity. Additionally, she works on and for open knowledge and Indigenous data sovereignty.
- See Also
- FAIR PRICES & FARM JUSTICE FOR RACIAL EQUITY & FOOD SYSTEM RESILIENCE
- Farming's Racist Roots
- Alumnae Document USDA DiscriminationFarmers, Fairness, and the Farm Bill - Practicum
- SESYNC-NSF: Diverse Pathways to Nourishment: Understanding How Agrobiodiversity Enhances Food Security
- Agrobiodiversity: SIS Breaks It Down
- For the Media
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Teaching
Summer 2022
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SIS-793 Practicum in Int'l Affairs: Agricultr Pol/Agrarian Justice
Fall 2022
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SIS-620 Stds in Global Envirn Politics: Pol Ecol of Food & Agriculture
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SIS-899 Doctoral Dissertation
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SISU-106 First Year Seminar: Rural Urban Connections
Spring 2023
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HNRS-098 Honors Capstone Supplement
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SIS-793 Practicum in Int'l Affairs: Agricultr Pol/Agrarian Justice
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SIS-899 Doctoral Dissertation
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SISU-419 Senior Capstone: Int'l Studies: Community-Partnered Res Meth
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SISU-494 Comm Service Learning Project
Partnerships & Affiliations
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Center for Environment, Community & Equity
Associate Director -
Antiracist Research & Policy Center
Faculty Advisor -
Agroecology Research-Action Collective
Co-founder
Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities
Selected Publications
Book Manuscripts
Forthcoming The Power of Seeds & Politics of Agricultural Biodiversity (M.I.T. Press’s Food, Health & Environment Series)
Under Review Hemp & Farm Justice (co-authored with seven movement leaders and four Practicum graduate students as ‘The Cáñamo Collective’; for MandelVilar Press’ new Agrarian Justice Booklet Series)
Peer-reviewed Articles & Peer-reviewed Book Chapters (*=my graduate student)
2022 Graddy-Lovelace, G. “From Obstruction to Decolonization? Contested Sovereignty, the Seed Treaty & Biocultural Rights in the United States & Beyond” For Biocultural Rights and Community Protocols: Protecting and Promoting Indigenous Peoples’ and Local Communities’ Ways of Life. Eds. F. Girard, I. Hall, G. Filoche, C. Frisson.
2022 Auerbach, J., S. Muñoz, G. Graddy-Lovelace, V. Limeberry* et al. “Displacement of the Scholar? Participatory Action Research under COVID-19 and a Re-imagining of University Support” Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
2021 Graddy-Lovelace, G. and Patti Naylor. “Disparity to Parity to Solidarity: Balancing the Scales of Agricultural Policy for Justice & Viability” for Development. Special Issue “Resetting Power in Global Food Governance: The United Nations Food Systems Summit”
2021 Graddy-Lovelace, G. “Seeking (Food) Sovereignty Beyond the State? Limits of Liberalism & Neoliberalism in International Anti-Hunger Advocacy” A Review of M. Jurkovich’s Feeding the Hungry: Advocacy and Blame in the Global Fight Against Hunger. In H-Diplo (H-Net network for Diplomatic History, International Affairs, Foreign Policy, International Relations, Peacekeeping Studies, Nuclear History and Policy Studies, and Transnational Studies)
2021 Graddy-Lovelace, G. “Leveraging Law & Life: Criminalization of Agrarian Movements & the Escazú Agreement” For Our Hyper-Extractive Age: Expressions of Violence and Resistance. Routledge Press. Eds. J. Shapiro and J.A. McNeish
2021 Montenegro, M., A. Iles, A. Shattuck, G. Graddy-Lovelace, J. Chappell, A. Roman-Alcalá. “Getting our House in Order: Principles for accountable food systems research from the Agroecology Research-Action Collective” Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems & Community Development
2020 Graddy-Lovelace, G. “Re-Orienting Policy for Growing Food to Nourish Communities”\ Agriculture & Human Values. Special collection: “Agriculture, Food & Covid-19” 29 April. 37(3): 623-625
2020 Graddy-Lovelace, G. “Farmer & Non-Farmer Responsibility to Each Other: Negotiating the Social Contracts & Public Good of Agriculture” Journal of Rural Studies
2020 Graddy-Lovelace, G. “Attending to Plants: Crop Diversity Pre-Breeding Technologies as Agrarian Care Co-opted?” Area. Special issue: “Limits & Topologies of Care” 52(2): 235-243 DOI:10.1111/area.12499 [published online in 2018]
2020 M. Edelman, G. Graddy-Lovelace, and A. Roman-Alcalá. “Emancipatory Politics & Authoritarianism in Rural United States” Journal of Rural Studies. Special Issue Introduction: “Emancipatory Politics & Authoritarian Populism in Rural United States”
2020 Graddy-Lovelace, G., A. Diamond and N. Ichikawa. “Contextualizing the Farm Bill: Questions of Agricultural Governance” Renewable Agriculture & Food Systems (formerly American Journal of Alternative Agriculture). Special Issue Introduction: “U.S. Farm Bill: Policy, Politics & Potential”
2020 Graddy-Lovelace, G. “Garden Griot & Freedom Farming” Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems & Community Development. Special Issue Introduction: “Reflections on Monica White’s Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance & the Black Freedom Movement”
2019 Graddy-Lovelace, G. “U.S. Farm Policy as Fraught Populism: Tracing the Scalar Tensions of Nationalist Agricultural Governance” Annals of American Association of Geographers. Special issue: “Environmental Governance in a Populist/Authoritarian Era” 109(2): 1-17.
- Republished in (2019) Environmental Governance in a Populist/Authoritarian Era, ed. J. McCarthy. Routledge Press. ISBN: 978-0-367-34653-9
2019 Fagundes*, C., J. Mleczko*, L. Picciano, W. Tillman, G. Graddy-Lovelace, S. Schwier*, F. Hall*, and T. Watson* “Ecological Costs of Discrimination: Red Cedar, Racism & Resilience in Farm Bill Conservation Policy in Oklahoma” Renewable Agriculture & Food Systems. Special Issue: “U.S. Farm Bill: Policy, Politics & Potential” 1-15.
2019 Graddy-Lovelace, G. “Scales of Reference and Reckoning” Antipode. Special Forum Intervention: “Streams into Rivers of Justice: Radical Geographies of Ecology & Spirit” {OA}
2018 Fernández, M., J. Williams, G. Figueroa*, G. Graddy-Lovelace, M. Machado, L. Vásquez, N. Pérez, L. Casimiro, G. Romero, and F. Funes Aguilar. “New Opportunities, New Challenges: Harnessing Cuba’s Advances in Sustainable Agriculture under Normalizing Relations” Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene. Forum: “Cuba’s Agri-Food System in Transition” 6:76. [With Spanish translation, in same special issue] {OA}
2018 Orozco, A*., A. Ward*, and G. Graddy-Lovelace. “Documenting USDA Discrimination: Community-Based Research on Farm Policy & Land Justice” ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies. 17(4): 999-1023 {OA}
2018 Graddy-Lovelace, G. “United States-Cuba Agricultural Relations & Agrarian Questions” Journal of Agrarian Change. 18(1): 43-66 [published online in 2016]
2017 Graddy-Lovelace, G. “Latent Alliances: The Women’s March & Agrarian Feminism as Opportunities of & for Political Ecology” Gender, Place & Culture. Special issue: “Emergent Spaces in the Women’s March: Intersectionality & Inclusion” 24(5): 674-695
2017 Graddy-Lovelace, G. and A. Diamond. “From Supply Management to Agricultural Subsidies— and Back Again? US Farm Bill & Agrarian (In)Viability” Journal of Rural Studies. 50: 70-83
2017 Graddy-Lovelace, G. “The Coloniality of US Agricultural Policy: Articulating Agrarian (In)Justice” Journal of Peasant Studies. 44:1, 78-99 [published online in 2016]
- Selected for Kelly, R., et al (2020). An annotated bibliography on structural racism present in the U.S. food system (8th ed.). Michigan State University Center for Regional Food Systems.
- Selected for Journal of Peasant Studies’ 2017 compilation “Rural Topical Issues: Critical Perspectives on Rural Politics & Development
2016 Iles, A., G. Graddy-Lovelace, M. Montenegro, and R. Galt. “Agricultural Systems: Co-Producing Knowledge and Food” In The Science and Technology Studies Handbook, 4th edition, eds. U. Felt, C. Miller. M.I.T. Press. Pp 943-972.
2016 Graddy-Lovelace, G., A. Harnish, and J. Hazelwood. “World Is Burning, Sky Is Falling, All Hands on Deck: Reflections on Action-Oriented Socio-Environmental Scholarship” In The Environment in Anthropology: A Reader in Ecology, Culture & Sustainable Living, 2nd edition, eds. N. Haenn, R. Wilk, A. Harnish. New York University Press. Pp 445-481.
2014 Graddy, T.G. “Situating in situ: A Critical Geography of Agricultural Biodiversity Conservation in the Peruvian Andes & Beyond” Antipode. 46(2): 426-454.
2013 Graddy, T.G. “Regarding Biocultural Heritage: in situ Political Ecology of Agricultural Biodiversity in the Peruvian Andes” Agriculture & Human Values. 30(4): 587-604.
Guest Editor, Journal Themed Issues
Forthcoming Editorial Collective (V. Limeberry*, M. Montenegro, D. Luna-Gonzalez, M. Cely-Santos, A. Keleman, G. Graddy-Lovelace, K. Zimmerer,) “Agrobiodiversity Nourishes Us/La Agrobiodiversidad Nos Nutre: Research-Action for Agroecological Transformations” Bilingual special feature for Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene.
2020 Roman-Alcalá, A., G. Graddy-Lovelace, and M. Edelman (editors) “Emancipatory Politics & Authoritarian Populism in Rural United States” Journal of Rural Studies
2020 G. Graddy-Lovelace (editor) “Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance & the Black Freedom Movement – Collected Commentaries” Journal of Food, Community Agriculture & Sustainable Development {OA}
2020 Graddy-Lovelace, G., A. Diamond and N. Ichikawa (editors) “The United States Farm Bill: Policy, Politics & Potential” Renewable Agriculture & Food Systems (formerly American Journal of Alternative Agriculture) {OA}
Work In Progress
Grants and Sponsored Research
2021-2023 Principal Investigator, “Contemplative Environmental Mentoring Communities” Think Tank Grant, Mind & Life Institute
2021-2025 Senior Personnel, “SRS RN: Multiscale RECIPES (Resilient, Equitable, and Circular Innovations with Partnership and Education Synergies) for Sustainable Food Systems” National Science Foundation ($15,000,000)
- Co-lead on Agri-Food Policy Research Project, in Prevention Team
- Part of Food Justice Research Project, in Community Team
2018-2021 Co-Principal Investigator for “Diverse Pathways to Nourishment: Understanding How Agricultural Biodiversity Enhances Food Security & Nutrition” National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) Pursuit, National Science Foundation (NSF) DBI-1639145 ($92,000)
2020 Funding granted by GRACE Communications Foundation, for “Disparity to Parity: Updating Fair Prices & Supply Management for Farm Justice, Racial Equity & Climate Resilience” project, website, and policy report editing, design, and publication (disparitytoparity.org)
2019 Faculty Research Support Grant, American University, Vice Provost’s Office for “Mapping (Agrobio)Diverse Pathways to Nourishment: Focus Groups for Shared Analysis of Data Synthesis Regarding Agricultural Biodiversity for Food Security & Nutrition” ($10,000)
2018 Awarded Institute for Human Geography Small Research Fund for “Radical food geographies: Connecting knowledges, cultivating practices, (re)imagining governance” pre-AAG meeting ($5,000)
2017 School of International Service Dean’s Summer Research Award: “Cultivating Dialogue:A History, Geography & Policy Analysis of U.S.-Cuban Agrarian Cooperatives’ Collaboration” ($4,700)
2017 Berkeley Food Institute, University of California-Berkeley. Co-sponsored “US Farm Bill 2018: Politics, Policy & Potential” Symposium at AU SIS ($21,000)
2016 Christopher Reynolds Foundation Grant (through Center for Latin American & Latino Studies) to organize workshop and panel: “Cultivating Dialogue: A Comparative, Participatory Analysis of U.S. & Cuban Agricultural Cooperative Policies” ($4,000)
Professional Presentations
Invited Presentations of Research
2021 Invited panelist: ”Advancing opportunities for US-Cuba engagement on agroecology and climate resilience” for Trends and Perspectives of Cuba-US Relations, Center for Research for International Politics and Raul Roa Garcia Higher Institute of International Relations, Havana, Cuba
2021 Invited speaker and workshop leader, University of Kentucky College of Agriculture, Food & Environment
2021 Invited co-lead, “Disparity to Parity to Solidarity: Indian Farmers Uprising & US Agrarian Movements in Dialogue,” Civil Society Mechanism’s global multimedia boycott mobilization against the United Nations Food System Summit
2021 Invited instructor, Intensive Political Ecology PhD Summer Course, “Liberalism, Land & Liberation: Learning from Black, Indigenous & Anticolonial Feminist Agrarian Analyses,” at Wageningen University & Research, The Netherlands
2021 Invited speaker on USDA & Racism, for inaugural Ky Cooperative Extension Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Certificate Course, University of Kentucky College of Agriculture, Food & Environment
2021 Invited panelist, “Assessing the United Nations' HLPE Report #15: ‘Food Security and Nutrition: Building a Global Narrative Towards 2030’” AAG (Virtual)
2020 Selected as Museum Computer Network annual conference’s Ignite Talk keynote co-speaker (with V. Poundstone)
2020 Invited colloquium speaker, Agroecology and Livelihoods Collaborative, University of Vermont
2020 Invited co-keynote, West Virginia Food for All Summit
2020 Invited panelist, “Global Resources: Scarcity, Sustainability and Security,” Global Insights Speaker, Balsillie School of International Affairs, University of Waterloo
2020 Invited speaker, Pennsylvania State University, Geography Department, Coffee Hour Colloquium Series
2020 Invited speaker, Green New Deal & Food Panel, Museum of Food and Drink, with Raj Patel
2020 Invited presenter, International Workshop on Biocultural Rights and Biocultural Community Protocols, University of Alpes, Grenoble, France
2020 Invited colloquium speaker and farm policy workshop leader – Community & Leadership Development, College of Agriculture, University of Kentucky
2020 Invited speaker, “Dairy Together” Workshop, Wisconsin Farmers Union
2020 Invited panelist, “Scholar-Activist Praxis in the Political Ecologies of Appalachia” Dimensions of Political Ecology, Kentucky
2020 Invited panelist, “Teaching the Geographies of Food and Agriculture” AAG, Denver
2019 Invited panelist, “2018 Farm Bill” for Busboys & Poets Public Roundtable, Washington DC
2018 Invited paper: “Will the U.S. Agricultural Spectrum/Sector Be What Finally Topples the Cuban Embargo?” for Trends and Perspectives of Cuba-US Relations, Center for Research for International Politics and Raul Roa Garcia Higher Institute of International Relations, Havana, Cuba
2018 Invited talk: “The Secret Crisis of Surplus: 20th Century Geopolitics of U.S. Agricultural Governance, Gain & Glut” for Historical Research Cluster Speaker Series, AU SIS
2018 Invited speaker for “Food Justice in Appalachia and US South” Workshop and panel, West Virginia University
2018 Invited speaker, at Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement (CIRAD), Montpellier, France
2018 Invited instructor, Intensive PhD Summer Course, “Agrarian Cosmopolitics: Political Ontology, Land Justice & the Decolonial Option,” at Wageningen University & Research, The Netherlands
2018 Invited speaker, “Critical Food Interventions” Workshop and Symposium, University of Delaware
2018 Invited speaker, “Decolonizing Academia—By Agrarianizing It? Land, Labor, Learning, Justice” at the “Beyond the Grassroots: Participatory Ecology and Political Praxis” Annual Mellon Symposium of the Hurford Center for the Arts and Humanities, Haverford College PA
2018 Invited panelist, “Decolonial Feminist Political Ecology: Emergences and Futures,” American Association of Geographers (AAG), New Orleans LA
2018 Invited panelist, “Agrobiodiversity & Conflict,” AAG, New Orleans
2018 Invited panelist, “Rethinking Food Access Research,” AAG, New Orleans
2018 Invited presenter, Emancipatory Rural Politics Institute conference, International Institute for Social Studies, The Hague, Netherlands [unable to attend in person due to childcare]
2018 Invited panelist, “Let Justice Roll Down Like Waters: The Role of Spirituality in African American Environmental Activism in the U.S. South,” International Antipode Foundation-funded Workshop and Symposium, University of Louisville, Kentucky
2018 Invited panelist, “Public Political Ecology: From Communities of Practice to Communities of Praxis,” Dimensions of Political Ecology conference, UK
2017 Invited panelist, “Trends and Perspectives of Cuba-US Relations during the First Year of the Trump Administration,” Center for Research for International Politics and the Raul Roa Garcia Higher Institute of International Relations, Havana, Cuba
2017 Invited panelist, “Food for Soul & Bread Is Gold,” with Massimo Batturo, American University
2017 Invited speaker, “Food & Farm Bill 2018,” Sierra Club, New York City
2017 Invited panelist and panel leader, “Sharing Food & Agriculture Syllabi & Curriculum: Roundtable & Workshop” Agriculture, Food & Human Values Conference, Los Angeles
2017 Invited panelist, “The Broader Impacts of Our Research: Supporting Women in Geography’s 5th Annual Panel,” AAG, Boston
Honors, Awards, and Fellowships
2022 Excellent in PhD Mentoring Award, AU School of International Service
2022 Scholar-Teacher of the Year Award, AU School of International Service’s
2022 Awarded American University’s campus-wide Inaugural Provost Associate Award
2022 School of International Service’s Nominee for AU-wide ‘Excellence in Teaching – Tenure Track’ Award
2020 William Cromwell Award for Outstanding Teaching, School of International Service, AU
2018 Winner of the Campus Compact Mid-Atlantic’s Alan G. Penczek Service-Learning Faculty Award in the private institution category
2018 Practicum Featured as First Model Program for Environmental Engagement, Building Just Communities, Campus Compact Mid-Atlantic 2018 Report
2014 William M. LeoGrande Award for best article or book in Latin American or Latino Studies at American University (for Antipode article)
2010 Provost’s Outstanding Teaching Award, University of Kentucky
2009 College of Arts & Sciences Certificate of Outstanding Teaching, University of Kentucky
2008 Latin America Specialty Group Field Study Award, Association of American Geographers
2007 Dissertation Enhancement Award, Graduate School, University of Kentucky
2007 James S. Brown Graduate Research in Appalachia Award, University of Kentucky
2004-7 Multi-Year Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Kentucky
2004-7 Daniel Reedy Quality Achievement Award, Graduate School, University of Kentucky
2002-2004 Harvard Divinity School Merit Scholarship (covering full tuition)