Current Endowed Chairs
Valentine Cadieux proposal is to develop tools to bring the social sciences to students in CFANS by developing a course for graduate students and upper division undergraduates to discuss the social aspects of sustainable agriculture that are sorely lacking in CFANS course now. She was encouraged to apply for this opportunity by Gary Muehlbauer, head of the Dept of Agronomy & Plant Genetics as he continually heard from students in the Applied Plant Sciences that they wanted to learn more about the social implications of sustainable agriculture systems. Dr. Cadieux is currently a faculty member at Hamline University and is the Director of Sustainability Studies at Hamline. 2023-2024
Scott Peters and Daniel O'Connell were jointly awarded the School of Agriculture Endowed Chair in Agricultural Systems. Scott, who received his PhD from the University of Minnesota in 1998, is a professor in the Department of Global Development at Cornell University. Dan, Ph.D. from Cornell University, serves as the Executive Director of the Central Valley Partnership, based in Fresno, California. During their two-year tenure in the Endowed Chair position, they will use participatory action research to illuminate, document, analyze, and publicize core lessons from a 35 year partnership between farmers, community activists, government, and University of Minnesota faculty, staff, administrators, and students. Their work will narrate a history spanning time and geography that begins with Minnesota's farmers and communities pushing to strengthen the university and its public mission of democratic revival and community well being. Scott and Dan will generate a variety of publications that will be intentionally designed as resources for current work on issues of justice, sovereignty, equity, and sustainability in food and farming systems, in and beyond the state of Minnesota. 2022-2024
To reach any of the Chair holders or for more information, please contact the MISA office: misamail@umn.edu, 612-625-8235 or toll free 800-909-MISA (6472).
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