Catarina Passidomo Associate Professor of Environmental Studies

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cpassidomo@wlu.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Professor Passidomo is a human geographer whose research focuses on food systems and the relationships among food, place, nature, society, and power. She teaches Food, Place, and Power; Introduction to Environmental Studies; the Capstone seminar; and other courses in Environmental Studies. She has published over a dozen academic articles and book chapters. She is currently at work on a book exploring the socioenvironmental ruptures of placemaking through food in Peru and the American South.

Education

Ph.D., Geography, University of Georgia

M.A., Environmental Anthropology, University of Georgia

B.A., Sociology and Anthropology, Washington and Lee University

Research

Human Geography; Critical Food Studies; Human-Environment Interactions; Environmental and Social Justice; Global/U.S. South

Teaching

Food, Place, and Power

ENV Capstone

Introduction to Environmental Studies

Selected Publications

Passidomo, Catarina (2024). “Gastroimaginaries: A framework for conceptualizing narratives of food and place in the American South.” Food, Culture, and Society. Published Online 26 July.

Passidomo, Catarina and Jeffrey Miller (2019). “Geographies of Food.” In Warf, Barney, Ed. Oxford Bibliographies in Geography. New York: Oxford, University Press.

Passidomo, Catarina (2017). “‘Our’ Culinary Heritage: Obscuring Inequality by Celebrating Diversity in Peru and the U.S. South.” Humanity and Society, 41 (4): 427-445.

Passidomo, Catarina (2016). “Community gardening and governance over urban nature in New Orleans’s Lower Ninth Ward.” Urban Forestry and Urban Greening, 19: 271-277.

Passidomo, Catarina (2014). “Whose right to (farm) the city: Race and food justice activism in post-Katrina New Orleans.” Agriculture and Human Values, 31 (3): 385-396.