Research and Teaching Specializations Megan A. Carney, Ph.D. University of Washington Seattle, WA macarney@uw.edu Sociocultural anthropology; critical medical anthropology; transnational im/migration; women s im/migration; anthropology of food, health, and the body; food security/insecurity; U.S.-Mexico/Central America borderlands; E.U.(Italy)- Africa/Middle East borderlands; poverty and structural violence; governmentality of immigration and citizenship; biopolitics; global health; social organization of care and caring labor; mental health; immigrant detention; feminist theory (intersectionality); ethnography; qualitative research; participatory research. Education & Training Ph.D. Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) (June 2012) Dissertation Committee: Susan Stonich, Melissa Caldwell, Casey Walsh, Leila Rupp, Teresa Figueroa Dissertation Title: The Other Side of Hunger: Everyday Experiences of Mexican and Central American Migrant Women with Food Insecurity in Santa Barbara County Dissertation Abstract: Drawing upon 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2008 and 2011 in the coastal region of Santa Barbara, California, I advance and contribute to several arguments with regards to transnational migration of women from Latin America to the United States. In presenting the lived experience of food insecurity, I analyze the everyday forms of structural violence that shape the experiences of migrant women, particularly in terms of food, health, and bodies, and I critique interventions to food insecurity and diet-related health problems implemented by state and nonprofit agencies. I argue that through their everyday struggles and interactions with groups providing assistance, migrant women navigate structural inequalities linked to race, class, gender, and immigration status while also negotiating reproductive labors within the household and performing new modes of citizenship. M.A. Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara (June 2009) Committee: Susan Stonich, David Cleveland, Casey Walsh, Teresa Figueroa B.A. Anthropology & Italian (minor), Magna Cum Laude with Anthropology High Honors, University of California, Los Angeles (June 2006) Academic Positions Lecturer, Integrated Social Sciences and Anthropology, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington (2015- ) Survey of Social Science Research Methods (Winter 2016, Spring 2016), Globalization and You (Fall 2015) Lecturer, Anthropology and Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Washington (2014-15)
Perspectives in Medical Anthropology (Fall 2014), Traffic Across Cultural Boundaries (Fall 2014), Women, Health, and Migration (Winter 2015), Approaches to Health and the Body in Latin America (Winter 2015), Introduction to Medical Anthropology and Global Health (Spring 2015), Gendered Migration in Latin America (Spring 2015) Visiting Scholar, Arizona State University (2014- ) Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Comparative Border Studies Institute, Arizona State University (2013-14) Affiliated Assistant Professor, Anthropology, University of Washington (2013- ) Postdoctoral Lecturer, Anthropology, Affiliated Faculty, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Washington (2012-13) Cultural Politics of Diet and Nutrition (Fall 2012), Women, Migration, and Health (Winter 2013), Traffic Across Cultural Boundaries (Spring 2013) Research Associate, Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz (2012-13) Lecturer, Anthropology, UCSB (2010-12) Anthropology of Food (two quarters), Social Organization: Poverty, Class, and Inequality (one quarter) Teaching Assistant, Anthropology, UCSB (2007-11) Human Growth and Development (one quarter), Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (seven quarters), World Agriculture (one quarter), Human Evolution (one quarter), Third World Environments: Global Food Systems (one quarter), Third World Environments: Global Tourism (one quarter), Third World Environments: Disasters (one quarter) Instructor in Environmental Studies, UCLA (2006) Sustainable Food Systems (one quarter) Awards and Grants Simpson Center for Humanities Collaboration Studio Grant, UW, Migration and Spaces of Sanctuary (2016-17) Center for Western European Studies Faculty Travel Grant, UW ($2,400; 2015) Center for Interdisciplinary Humanities Research, Seed Grant, ASU ($12,000; 2014) Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, UCSB (declined) Anthropology Works the Best Dissertations in Cultural Anthropology (2012) Interdisciplinary Humanities Center (UCSB) Predoctoral Fellowship (2011-12) Graduate Division Dissertation Fellowship, UCSB (2011-12) Dean s Advancement Fellowship, UCSB (2011) University of California Institute of Mexico and the United States Dissertation Research Grant ($12,000; 2010) Best Practices in Dining Services Award, UC/CSU/CCC Conference for Sustainability in Higher Education (2010) Chicano Studies Institute Research Grant, UCSB ($1,500; 2009) Community Food Security Coalition Scholarship ($1,000; 2009, 2010) The Green Initiative Fund Award, UCSB ($15,300; 2009-10) Institute for Research on Labor and Employment Research Grant ($1,500; 2009) January 2016 2
Publications Sustainable Agrifood Systems (SAS) Fellow, Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, UCSC ($3,000; 2008-09) Departmental High Honors, Anthropology, UCLA (2006) Wasserman Research Scholar, UCLA ($5,000; 2005) Rotary Scholar, Santa Cruz Rotary Club ($2,000; 2002, 2003) Ida D. Koran Scholar ($6,000; 2002-04) Dean s List, UCLA & NYU (2002-06) Books: Carney, M.A. 2015 The Unending Hunger: Tracing Women and Food Insecurity Across Borders. Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press. (Winner of the 2015 Choice award) Articles: Carney, M.A. Back There We Had Nothing to Eat : Mexican and Central American Households in the U.S. and Transnational Food Security. Invited for Special Issue of Food Security. Yates-Doerr, E. and Carney, M.A. De-medicalizing Health: Reflections on the Kitchen as a Site of Care. Medical Anthropology. Available online first. Minkoff-Zern, L.A. and Carney, M.A. 2015 Latino Im/migrants, Dietary Health, and Social Exclusion: A Critical Examination of Nutrition Interventions in California. Food, Culture, and Society 18(3):463-480. Carney, M.A. 2015 Eating and Feeding at the Margins of the State: Barriers to Healthcare for Undocumented Migrant Women and the Clinical Aspects of Food Assistance. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 29(2):196-215. Carney, M.A. 2014 You Want to Feed Your Family, Don t You? Exploring the Consequences of Economic Crisis for Everyday Food Practices in Immigrant Communities. Gender, Sexuality, and Feminism 1(2):5-23. Greenhalgh, S. and Carney, M.A. 2014 Bad Biocitizens?: Latinos and the U.S. Obesity Epidemic. Human Organization 73(3):267-276. Carney, M.A. 2014 The Biopolitics of Food Insecurity : Towards a Critical Political Ecology of the Body in Studies of Women s Transnational Migration. Journal of Political Ecology 21:1-18. Carney, M.A. 2013 Border Meals: Detention Center Feeding Practices, Migrant Subjectivities, and Questions on Trauma. Gastronomica: The Journal of Critical Food Studies 13(4):32-46. Carney, M.A. 2012 Compounding Crises of Economic Recession and Food Insecurity: A Comparison of Three Low-Income Communities in Santa Barbara County. Mini-symposium on Food Sovereignty for the Journal of Agriculture and Human Values, 29(2):185-201. Carney, M.A. 2011 The Food Sovereignty Prize: Implications for Discourse and Practice. Food and Foodways, 19(3):169-180. January 2016 3
Carney, M.A. 2011 Food Security and Food Sovereignty : What Frameworks are Best Suited for Social Equity in Food Systems? Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems and Community Development, 2(2):71-87. Book Chapters: Carney, M.A. Sickness in the System of Immigrant Detention: A Syndemics of Mental Distress, Malnutrition, and the Stigma of Illegality in the United States. Invited for the edited volume Spoiled Identities, Stigma Syndemics and the Making of BioSocial Health, Lerman, S., Ostrach, B, and Singer, M (eds.). Carney, M.A. 2014 La Lucha Diaria : Migrant Women in the Fight for Healthy Food. In Women Redefining Food Insecurity: Life Off the Edge of the Table, Janet Page-Reeves (ed.). Landham: Lexington Press. Miscellaneous and Reviews: Carney, M.A. 2015 Women s Migration through the Lens of Food Insecurity. Association of Feminist Anthropology Column of Anthropology News. Carney, M.A. 2014 Women s Migration through the Lens of Food Insecurity. UC Press Blog. http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/17127/womens-migration-through-the-lens-of-food-insecurity/ Carney, M.A. 2014 Bodies on the Line: Fighting Inhuman Treatment with Hunger in Immigrant Detention. Access Denied: A Conversation on Unauthorized Im/migration and Health, http://accessdeniedblog.wordpress.com/2014/05/04/bodies-on-the-line-fighting-inhumanetreatment-with-hunger-in-immigrant-detention-megan-carney/. Carney, M.A. 2014 Book review of Aya Hirata Kimura s Hidden Hunger: Gender and the Politics of Smarter Foods. Gastronomica: The Journal of Critical Food Studies 14(2):98-99. Carney, M.A. 2013 Review of Emily Yates-Doerr The Weight of the Body: Changing Ideals of Fatness, Nourishment, and Health in Guatemala. Dissertation Reviews. www.dissertationreviews.org Carney, M.A. 2012 Women s Migration Narratives and Reconciling Memories of Violence. Anthropology News. Carney, M.A. 2012 Book review of Kurt Timmermeister s Growing a Farmer. Gastronomica, Fall 2012. Carney, M.A. 2011 Book review of Marion Nestle s Pet Food Politics. Food and Foodways, 19(4):339-343. Carney, M.A. 2011 Food Empiricism? Deconstructing Subjectivity and Positionality in Dietary Research. e-scholarship. Carney, M.A. 2010 Women and the Human Right to Food: Examining Rights-based Approaches to the Gendered Cost of Food in the US. e-scholarship. Carney, M.A. 2010 The 2010 Central Coast Survey. Social Science Survey Center/Benton Survey Research Lab, University of California, Santa Barbara. Co-authors: Cleveland, David, January 2016 4
Paolo Gardinali, Garrett Glasgow, Michael McGinnes, John Mohr, Eric Smith and Lauren Copeland. Carney, M.A. 2006 Bella Pescheria! Food, Language, and the Social Construction of Market Space in Florence. Honors Thesis. Department of Anthropology, UCLA. Conference Papers and Invited Presentations 2016, The Terrain of Migrant Mental Health in the United States: Highlighting Disparities, Advocating for Response. Society for Applied Anthropology annual meeting. Co-organizer of Ethnographies of Migrant Mental Health in the United States. Discussant Carolyn Sargent. Vancouver, BC. 2015, Tutto e legato : The Knottiness of Austerity Pasts, Presents, and Futures in the Lives of Sub-Saharan African Migrants in Italy. American Anthropological Association annual meeting. Chair of panel Health in the Time of Belt Tightening : An Anthropology of Austerity in Europe and Africa. Discussant: Carolyn Sargent. Denver, CO. 2014, Without Criminal Cause: Punishment for Profits in the Immigrant Detention System. American Anthropological Association annual meeting. Discussant: Philippe Bourgois. Washington, D.C. 2014, Confounding Meanings of Target Populations : Migrant Mental Health and the U.S. Immigration Regime. Society for Applied Anthropology annual meeting. Co-organizer with Anubha Sood of panel Identifying Barriers to Global Mental Health. Discussants: Paul Brodwin and Neely Myers. Albuquerque, NM. 2013, Women s Migration and the Biopolitics of Food Insecurity : Disciplining Caring Subjects. American Anthropological Association annual meeting. Chicago, IL. 2013, Migrant Health and Food Insecurity in the United States 12 th Annual Pre-Health Conference: [In]Equality in Health Care. University of Washington. Seattle, WA. 2012, Managing the Non-Citizen Body: Nutrition Education, Obesity Prevention, and Responsible Reproduction for Migrant Women in the US. American Anthropological Association annual meeting. Co-organizer of panel with Rani Mclean for the Society of Cultural Anthropology Boundaries of Consumption. San Francisco, CA. 2012, Does a Framework of Food Justice Include Transborder Communities? American Anthropological Association annual meeting. Discussant for panel Food Justice. San Francisco, CA. 2012, Everyday Struggles of Migrant Women in the Transborder Food Environment. Foodways: Diasporic Diners, Transnational Tables and Culinary Connections, Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies, University of Toronto. Toronto, Ontario. 2012, Performing Citizenship: Migrant Women and the Embodiment of State Discourse. The Knowing Body, Conference of the Performance Studies Research Focus Group, UCSB. Santa Barbara, CA. 2011, Food Justice Research Forum. Community Food Security Coalition Annual Conference. Coorganizer with Alison Alkon. Oakland, CA. January 2016 5
2011, Transborder Food Environments: Conceptualizing Health and Food Insecurity Among Latina Immigrants. American Anthropological Association annual meeting. Montreal, Quebec. 2011, Food Policy Councils: Applied Social Science in the Realm of Grassroots Citizenship. Society for Applied Anthropology annual meeting. Co-organizer with Teresa Mares Striving for Food Democracy: The Potential of Campus Community Partnerships. Seattle, WA. 2011, Food empowerment: Latin@ citizenship and the lack of food sovereignty in Santa Barbara. Food Justice Conference, University of Oregon. Eugene, OR. 2011, Food Empiricism? Deconstructing Subjectivity and Positionality in Dietary Research. Thinking Gender, Graduate Student Conference, UCLA. Los Angeles, CA. 2010, Research Forum. Community Food Security Coalition Annual Conference. Co-organizer with Molly Anderson and Anne Palmer. 2010, "The Making of Community-based Food Policy: Latinas in the Transition from Food Security to Food Sovereignty." National Association of Chicano Studies Annual Meeting. Seattle, WA. 2010, Food Sovereignty: Methodological Approaches and Practical Challenges. Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting. Session Organizer and Chair. Merida, Mexico. 2010, "Women and the Human Right to Food: Examining Rights-based Approaches to the Gendered Cost of Food in the U.S." Thinking Gender, Graduate Student Conference, UCLA. Los Angeles, CA. 2009, Food Security in Low-Income Latino Households of Santa Barbara County and the Role of Women in the Potential for Food Sovereignty. Food Matters, Graduate Student Conference, UCSB. Santa Barbara, CA. 2009, Food Security + Food Sovereignty: Repercussions of the Global Food and Economic Crisis on Latino Households in Santa Barbara County. Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting. Santa Fe, NM. 2009, Repercussions of the Global Food and Economic Crisis on Latino Households in Santa Barbara County. Food Sustainability and Food Security Conference, UCSB. Santa Barbara, CA. 2008, U.S. student delegate to Terra Madre, International Slow Food Conference. Turin, Italy. 2006, Bella Pescheria!: Food, Language, and the Social Construction of Market Space in Florence. Undergraduate Research Conference, UCLA. Los Angeles, CA. 2006, Building Support and Breaking Ground for Campus Gardening Associations. Thinking Globally, Acting Locally, UCLA. Los Angeles, CA. Academic Memberships and Service Ex Officio Board Member, Society for Medical Anthropology (SMA) Contributing Editor, SMA Section of Anthropology News January 2016 6
Chair, Take a Stand Committee on Austerity, Critical Medical Anthropology and Global Health Interest Group (CAGH), American Anthropological Association ASU Immigration Studies Research Cluster (2013-14) Cultural Politics of Food Research Focus Group, University of Washington (2012-13) B/ordering Violence Sawyer Seminar Series, University of Washington (2012-13) Reviewer, National Science Foundation Cultural Anthropology Program (ad hoc), National Institutes of Health (ad hoc), Social Science and Medicine, Medical Anthropology, Food and Foodways, Agriculture and Human Values, Punishment and Society, Ecology of Food and Nutrition, Anthropology & Humanism, Journal of Political Ecology, University of Toronto Press Association of Feminist Anthropology American Anthropological Association Vice President, Political Ecology Society (PESO) (2010-11) Food and the Body Multi-campus Research Program, University of California (2009-) Food Studies Research Focus Group, UCSB (2008-11) Community Food Security Coalition (2008-12) Society for Applied Anthropology University of California/California State University/California Community College Annual Sustainability Conference - Food Systems Track Review Committee (2008-11) Editorial Committee Member, Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems and Community Development (2009-) Anthropology Graduate Student Association, UCSB (Co-chair 2008-09) Food Matters, Graduate Student Conference, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, UCSB Co-organizer (2008-09) Food Sustainability & Food Security Conference, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, UCSB Co-organizer (2008-09) Anthropology Departmental Honors Program, UCLA (2004-06) California Student Sustainability Coalition (CSSC) Foods Initiative/ Real Food Challenge (Real Food Challenge Calculator National Advisory Committee) January 2016 7