Sarah's general research interest is the political economy of food and agriculture. Specifically, her dissertation examines the financialization of agriculture, and the relationship between agricultural commodity exchanges and farmers. Past academic research has included a history of transnational foodservice corporations, forays into environmental history and theory, and a major project on social movements and food sovereignty in Canada.
Sarah’s academic work is informed by her work as a cook, chef and meat cutter in a variety of settings from institutional cafeterias to high-end restaurants to remote logging camps, which has led to her particular interest in how food politics is practiced in the everyday.
The work is generously supported by SSHRC, a Balsillie Fellowship, and the Faculty of Environment. Sarah held the position of Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Agriculture and Trade Policy, Minneapolis, MN and Washington, DC in 2013.
For more about Sarah, please see an article by the Waterloo Department of Environment.