Garrett Graddy-Lovelace Associate Professor School of International Service
- 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
- Dav cafe seating outside SIS
- Favorite Place in Washington DC
- the mighty Potomac River
- Bio
- Garrett Graddy-Lovelace researches and teaches global environmental and agricultural policy and agrarian politics. A critical geographer, she draws upon political ecology and postcolonial studies in current research on agricultural biodiversity conservation, agrarian cooperatives, land use decisions, and domestic and global impacts of US farm policies. This includes community-based participatory action research with grassroots groups on Farm Bill reform as well as ongoing research on Cuba-US agricultural relations. Her forthcoming book, The Power of Seeds & Politics of Agricultural Biodiversity, is with M.I.T. Press. She is co-PI for a new two-year SESYNC-NSF Pursuit, entitled "Diverse Pathways to Nourishment: Understanding How Agricultural Biodiversity Enhances Food Security." She won the 2018 Campus Compact Mid-Atlantic's Alan C. Penczek Award for Service Learning for her work in community-engaged scholarship and the 2020 William Cromwell Award for Outstanding Teaching. Graddy-Lovelace co-founded and co-leads AU2030 Social Equity Initiative, School of International Service's Ethnographies of Empire Research Cluster, and the new, nation-wide Agroecology Research-Action Collective.
- See Also
- AU2030 Feature: Graddy-Lovelace & Agrarian Connections
- Alumnae Document USDA Descrimination
- Farmers, 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
- To request an interview for a news story, call AU Communications at 202-885-5950 or submit a request.
Partnerships & Affiliations
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Antiracist Research & Policy Center
Environment Team - co-chair
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)
Forthcoming Hemp & Farm Justice
(co-authored with five farm organization leaders and four Practicum graduate students under nom de plume ‘The Cáñamo Collective’; for MandelVilar Press’ new Agrarian Justice Booklet Series)
Peer-reviewed Articles
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. “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]
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. doi:10.1017/S1742170519000322.
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. DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2018.1551722.
2019 Graddy-Lovelace, G. “Scales of Reference and Reckoning” Antipode. Special Forum Intervention: “Streams into Rivers of Justice: Radical Geographies of Ecology & Spirit” {Open Access}
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. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.337 [With Spanish translation, in same special issue] {Open Access}
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 {Open Access}
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]
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
2020 G. Graddy-Lovelace (editor) “Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance & the Black Freedom Movement – Collected Commentaries” Journal of Food, Community Agriculture & Sustainable Development {Open Access}
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)
Forthcoming Roman-Alcalá, A., G. Graddy-Lovelace, and M. Edelman (editorials) “Emancipatory Rural Politics & Authoritarian Populism – United States/Puerto Rico” Journal of Rural Studies
In Progress Graddy-Lovelace, G., K. Niewolny, J. Lindemann, and H. Hyden (editorials) “ Agricultural Cooperative Extension of Everything”
Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters
Invited Graddy-Lovelace, G. “Biocultural Community Protocols in the United States? Countering Obstructionism, Expanding National Plant Germplasm System Distribution” For international edited volume Biocultural Rights and Community Protocols, eds. C. Frisson, I. Hall, F. Girard.
Under Review Graddy-Lovelace, G. “The Criminalization of Agrarian Movements: Leveraging Law & Violence Against Land Defenders” For proposed edited volume Environmental Violence in an Age of Hyper-Extractivism, under review with Routledge, ed. J Shapiro)
2019 Graddy-Lovelace, G. “U.S. Farm Policy as Fraught Populism: Tracing the Scalar Tensions of Nationalist Agricultural Governance” In Environmental Governance in a Populist/Authoritarian Era, ed. J. McCarthy. Routledge Press. ISBN: 978-0-367-34653-9
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.
Work In Progress
Professional Presentations
2019 Invited panelist, “2018 Agricultural Improvement Act: Status Quo with Seeds of Agrarian Justice” for Busboys & Poets Public Roundtable, Washington DC
2019 Invited panelist, “Will the U.S. Agricultural Spectrum/Sector Be What Finally Topples the Cuban Embargo?” for Center for Latin America and Latino Studies panel, American University
2019 “Scales of Reference & Reckoning as Ontologies of Accounting & Justice” Dimensions of Political Ecology Conference, University of Kentucky
2019 “Dialogue as Data As Dialogue: Emancipatory Methodologies for the Rural Over-studied and Under-served” AAG, DC (co-presenting with V. Limeberry*)
2018 “The Criminalization of Agrarian Movements: Leveraging Law & Violence Against Land Defenders” Political Ecology Network (POLLEN) conference, Noragric University, Norway
2018 “Comparative Agrobiodiversity Policy Analysis: Treaties, Seed Laws, and Grassroots Declarations” POLLEN, Noragric University, Norway (co-presented with V. Limeberry*)
2018 “Femming the Farm? Gender Equity Claims & Accountability in Agricultural Aid” Dimensions of Political Ecology Conference, University of Kentucky (co-presented with V. Limeberry*)
2018 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
2018 Invited talk, “The Secret Old Crisis of Surplus: 20th Century Geopolitics of U.S. Agricultural Governance, Gain & Glut,” Historical Research Cluster Speaker Series, AU SIS
2018 Invited presentation “Informing Agricultural Biodiversity Governance: Democratizing Data, Placing Policy,” SESYNC-NSF Pursuit Inaugural Workshop, Annapolis MD
2018 Invited speaker, “Food Justice in Appalachia and US South,” West Virginia University
2018 Invited speaker, 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,” Wageningen University & Research, The Netherlands
2018 Invited panelist, XII Encuentros de Agroecología, Agricultura Orgánica y Sostenible, The Cuban Association of Agricultural and Forestry Technicians (ACTAF), Havana, Cuba
2018 Invited speaker, “Critical Food Interventions” Workshop and Symposium, University of Delaware
2018 Invited speaker, “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]
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
Grants and Sponsored Research
Academic Honors & Awards
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” ($10K)
2018 Awarded Institute for Human Geography Small Research Fund for “Radical food geographies: Connecting knowledges, cultivating practices, (re)imagining governance” pre-AAG meeting ($5K)
2018 Winner of the Campus Compact Mid-Atlantic’s Alan G. Penczek Service-Learning Faculty Award in the private institution category
- Recognizes and honors faculty member for excellence in the integration of service-learning into the curriculum and impact to students and the community.
2018 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 ($92K)
2018 Practicum Featured as First Model Program for Environmental Engagement, Building Just Communities, Campus Compact Mid-Atlantic 2018 Report
2017 School of International Service Dean’s Summer Research Award: “Cultivating Dialogue: A History, Geography & Policy Analysis of U.S.-Cuban Agrarian Cooperatives’ Collaboration” ($4.7K)
2017 Berkeley Food Institute, University of California-Berkeley. Co-sponsored “US Farm Bill 2018: Politics, Policy & Potential” Symposium at AU SIS ($21K)
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” ($4K)
2015 & 2016 & 2019 School of International Service Faculty-Student Conference Travel Award
2013 Provost’s International Travel Award, American University ($2.5K)