Aaron Bobrow-Strain

 Click here for Aaron Bobrow-Strain's White Bread page

"An epic, often funny history of the industrial loaf and a wise commentary on today’s polarized food politics."  

—Susanne Freidberg, author of Fresh: A Perishable History

AARON BOBROW-STRAIN'S

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Contact: Maxey 130, (509) 527-5996, straina@whitman.edu

Education: Ph.D. 2003 University of California, Berkeley, Geography; A.M. 1993 Stanford University, Latin American Studies; B.A. 1992 Macalester College, International Studies

Position: Associate Professor of Politics

Current CV

Major Interests:

• The cultural history and political economy of food
• Development, race, and agriculture in Latin America
• The U.S.-Mexico border and immigration politics
• Political Ecology

Books:

• Intimate Enemies: Landowners, Power, and Violence in Chiapas (Duke University Press, 2007)
  
• White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf

Articles, commentaries, and other publications: see Current CV 

Courses:

New Courses Under Development

Raw Geographies: Art Practice and the Politics of Place (with Michelle Acuff, Art Department)

Food, Agriculture, and Society (an interdisciplinary capstone seminar for the Environmental Studies major)

Courses Offered Regularly

Pol 119. Whitman in the Global Food System

Pol 228. Political Ecology

Pol 242. The Politics of Development in Latin America

Pol 334. The U.S.-Mexico Border: Globalization, Immigration, and Development 

Pol 363. Genealogies of Political Economy (Seminar)

Pol 373. The Cultural Politics of Development in Latin America

Pol 490. Politics Department Senior Seminar