Agriculture and Human Values - Agriculture Food and Human Values Society presents Professional Awards
The Agriculture Food and Human Values Society presented four awards for excellence to members at their annual meeting in Boston MA June 3, 2023
Dr. Kim Niewolny of Virginia Tech University was presented the Excellence in Instruction Award. Dr. Niewolny exemplifies leadership in advancing sustainable agriculture education and praxis at her university and beyond. It was noted that she applies the mission, vision and values of the Society to and integrates them in her teaching as well as research and outreach.
The team of Dr. Shoshanah Inwood of The Ohio State University, Dr. Florence Becot of the National Farm Medicine Center at the Marshfield Clinic Research Institute and Dr. Andrea Rissing of Arizona State University was presented the AFHVS Excellence in Scholarship Award. This team conducts research on the social and economic challenges faced by farm households and seeks to understand how access to quality affordable childcare, health care, and health insurance impact both the quality of life of farm households and farm business development trajectories and resilience. This research makes a vital contribution to farm viability, rural economies and quality of life, all important emphases to the Society.
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The Early Career Excellence Award was presented separately to two emerging scholars.
Dr. Estelí Jiménez-Soto of Syracuse University has built a research program that is innovative and very well aligned with the goals and objectives of the Society. Her focus on the intersection of human adaptation to climate change through the lens of agroecology, draws on the intersections between people’s relationships with their environments, cultures of food and migration, and sustainable agricultural production.
Dr. Katherine Dentzman has created a research program that is innovative and significant in that it advances the study of women farmers in the U.S. through pioneering methodological developments combined with an approach considering sexuality, race, and socio-economic class with a grounding in intersectional feminist and queer theory. Such commitment to understanding diversity in U.S. agriculture advances the objectives of the Society.
Student Research Paper Award winner
Hannah Whitley, Penn State University - 'Outsiders Within' the Urban Farm: An Intersectional Analysis of Black Women’s Experiences with Agriculture in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA)’