Erica Zurawski
curriculum vitae | last updated spring 2022
Education
Ph.D., Sociology, University of California Santa Cruz, currently
Advisors: Julie Guthman, Miriam Greenberg, Hillary Angelo, Lindsey Dillon
Critical Food Studies; Urban Sociology; Legal Geographies; Spatial Imaginaries & Spatial Justice; Uneven Development & Geographies of Exclusion
J.D., University of Wisconsin Law School, 2013
International and Comparative Law Concentration
B.A., Spanish, Communication Arts-Rhetoric, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2010
Global Cultures Certificate; Leadership Certificate
Awards & Grants
2022 | UCSC Science & Justice Research Center Building Diversity Fellow
2022 | UCSC Graduate Dean’s Research Travel Grant
2020 | UCSC Sociology Department Research & Travel Award
2020 | AAG Geographies of Food and Agriculture Specialty Group Graduate Research Award
2019 | UC Global Food Initiative Fellowship Recipient
2018 | UC Santa Cruz Science & Justice Training Program Fellow
2019 | UCSC Graduate Student Association Student Travel Grant
2019 | Association for the Study of Food & Society Local Event Grant
2018 | Association for the Study of Food & Society Student Travel Grant
2018 | Graduate Association of Food Studies Conference Student Travel Award
2018 | UCSC Graduate Student Association Student Travel Grant
2018 | American Sociological Association Student Forum Travel Award
2018 | Association for the Study of Food & Society Student Travel Grant
2018 | Summer Fellowship, University of California Santa Cruz
2017 | Regents’ Fellowship, University of California Santa Cruz
2017 | Sociology Department Fellowship, University of California Santa Cruz
2013 | Student Travel Grant, Willem C. Vis International Moot, East Asian Legal Studies Center, University of Wisconsin Law School
Publications
Guthman, Julie, and Erica Zurawski. 2020. ‘If I need to put more armor on, I can’t carry more guns’: the collective action problem of breeding for productivity in the California strawberry industry. The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food. 26, 1 (May 2020), 69-88.
Zurawski, Erica. 2018. The Phenomenon of the Park Slope Food Coop: The Stakes of De-Politicized Monotony. Graduate Journal of Food Studies 5, no. 2. https://gradfoodstudies.org/2018/12/11/the-phenomenon-of-the-park-slope/
Zurawski, Erica. 2017. Review of Abbots, Emma-Jayne. The Agency of Eating: Mediation, Food, and the Body. Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. ix, 192 pp. In the Graduate Journal of Food Studies, Vol. 5, No. 1. https://gradfoodstudies.org/2018/06/01/review-the-agency-of-eating/
Conference Activity & Participation
Conferences Co-Organized
May 2019 | The Futures of Critical Food Studies, University of California Santa Cruz
Panels Organized
February 2021 | “Interdisciplinary Engagements Beyond the ‘Food Desert'” at the American Association of Geographers 2022 Annual Meeting, New York, NY
June 2019 | “Conversations on Scholar-Activism and Public-Facing Scholarship in Food Studies,” Association for the Study of Food & Society Conference, University of Alaska, Anchorage
Papers Presented
June 2021 | “[Food] Desert Imperialism: Desert Imaginaries, Wasteland Narratives & the Ideology of Improvement” at the Just Food ASFS, AFHVS, CAFS, SAFN Join Annual Conference 2021 (Virtual)
April 2021 | “[Food] Desert Imperialism: Colonial Imaginaries of Lack & the Making of Terra Economica” at the America Association of Geographers 2021 Annual (Virtual) Meeting
April 2020 | “Why are we stuck in the (colonial) desert? Interrogating the Staying Power of the Food Desert Metaphor” at the American Association of Geographers 2020 Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (Accepted, but conference cancelled due to COVID-19).
June 2019 | “‘The Desert Shall Blossom as the Rose’: Linking Settler Colonialism, Environmental Racism, and Food Justice Organizing in North Denver” at the Agriculture, Food, And Human Values Society / Association for the Study of Food and Society 2019 Annual Meeting, University of Alaska, Anchorage, Anchorage, AK
October 2018 | “From Gold Rush to Reefer Madness: Linking Colonialism, Commodity Flows, and Gentrification Within Denver’s Food Justice Organizing” presented at the Graduate Association for Food Studies Future of Food Studies Conference, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC
August 2018 | “The Politics of Consumption and Production: Moving Beyond ‘Justice’ in Food Justice Organizing” presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA
August 2018 | “Politics of Consumption vs. Politics of Production: A Dialectic Framework to Comparatively Analyze Food Justice and Food Sovereignty Organizing” presented at the ASA Consumers & Consumption Section Mini-Conference, Rutgers University-Camden, Camden, NJ
June 2018 | “Politics of Consumption vs. Politics of Production: A Dialectic Analysis of Food Access Organizing” presented at the Agriculture, Food, And Human Values Society / Association for the Study of Food and Society 2018 Annual Meeting, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
Teaching Experience at University of California Santa Cruz
Instructor of Record
Contemporary Social Theory Summer 2021, Summer 2022
Teaching Assistantships & Readerships
Classical Social Theory Fall 2021, Fall 2019, Winter 2019
Contemporary Social Theory Spring 2022, Winter 2022, Spring 2021, Winter 2021, Spring 2019, Winter 2018
Introduction to Sociology Fall 2020
Social Psychology Summer 2020
Community Analysis for Global Health Spring 2020
Global Capitalism Winter 202
Political Economy of Food & Agriculture Fall 2018
Environmental Injustice/Inequity Summer 2018
Environmental Inequalities Fall 2017
Guest Lectures
Spring 2022 | Guest Talk, “Food Deserts: The Role of US Policy in Spatialized Food (In)Justice,” The Law Group, Wageningen University. Watch here.
Fall 2019 | Guest Lecturer on George Herbert Mead & W.E.B. Du Bois in “Classical Social Theory,” Department of Sociology, UC Santa Cruz
Winter 2019 | Guest Lecturer on George Herbert Mead & W.E.B. Du Bois in “Classical Social Theory,” Department of Sociology, UC Santa Cruz
Summer 2018 | Guest Lecturer on Food Justice & Food Sovereignty in “Environmental Injustice/Inequity,” Department of Environmental Studies, UC Santa Cruz
Fall 2017 | Guest Lecturer on Food Injustice & Food Sovereignty in “Environmental Inequalities,” Department of Sociology, UC Santa Cruz
Pedagogical Training
Spring 2022 | Pedagogy of Sociology Course, UCSC
Spring 2021 | Certificate in Course Design & Delivery, Center for Innovation in Teaching and Leadership, UCSC
Winter 2021 | Certificate in Teaching Disciplinary Writing, Center for Innovation in Teaching and Leadership, UCSC
Other Teaching Experience
2008 – 2010 | Member Trainer & Committee Chair, Student Consultants and Speaker’s Bureau
2008 – 2009 | Founder & Teacher, Students Advancing in Leadership
2007 – 2008 | Co-Teacher & Committee Chair, Emerging Leaders Program
Research Experience
Summer 2022 | Graduate Student Researcher, Building Diversity in Sociology and Science and Technology Studies Initiative
Summer 2021 | Graduate Student Researcher, Dr. Lindsey Dillon
Summer 2019 | Graduate Student Researcher, Dr. Julie Guthman
2012 – 2013 | Competitor, Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot
Summer 2011 | Intern to the Honorable Judge Higginbotham, Wisconsin Court of Appeals
University Service
2019 – 2020 | Graduate Advising Committee, UC Santa Cruz Sociology Department
2013 | Student Bar Association 3L Graduation Speaker Selection Committee Chair, University of Wisconsin Law School
2011 – 2013 | Law School Student Ambassador & Tour Guide
2010 – 2013 | Student Bar Association Class Representative, University of Wisconsin Law School
Service & Involvement in Profession
2020 – 2021 | Co-Organizer, The Food Studies (In)Digestion Series with the Graduate Association for Food Studies
2019 | Co-Founder, The Graduate Association for Food Studies Reading Collective
2019 – 2020 | Research Mentor, Pathways2Research, EOP, UCSC
2019 – 2021 | Co-President, Graduate Association for Food Studies
2018 – Present | Program Fellow, Science & Justice Training Program at UC Santa Cruz
2018 – Present | Member, University of California Santa Cruz Agri-Food Working Group
2017 – 2019 | Peer Reviewer, Graduate Association for Food Studies Journal
2012 – 2013 | Note & Comment Editor, Wisconsin Law Review, University of Wisconsin Law School
2012 – 2013 | Malt & Barley Editor, Wisconsin Law Review, University of Wisconsin Law School
2011 – 2013 | Member, Wisconsin Law Review, University of Wisconsin Law School
2008 – 2010 | Volunteer, Legal Information Center
Professional Association Memberships
2019 – Present | American Association of Geographers
2017 – Present | Association for the Study of Food and Society
2013 – 2019 | American Bar Association
2013 – 2017 | State Bar of Wisconsin
Additional Professional Experience
Food Distribution Intern & Administrative Assistant, The GrowHaus Denver April 2016 – June 2017
Assistant Director of Events & Administration, University of Wisconsin Law School Research Centers December 2014 – August 2015
Project Coordinator, University of Wisconsin Law School East Asian Legal Studies Center August 2013 – September 2015
Project Assistant, University of Wisconsin Law School Admissions Office August 2012 – August 2013
Legal Intern, Satyapon & Partners, LLC June 2012 – August 2012
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