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Southern Foodways Alliance Associate Professor of Southern Studies and Anthropology

Affiliated Faculty, Environmental Studies

Graduate Program Coordinator, Center for the Study of Southern Culture

The University of Mississippi

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Geography.  Environmental Studies.  Food Studies. Southern Studies.

I write and teach about food and agriculture, and the social and environmental movements associated with them.  I think about food and agriculture together as a way into conversations about culture and power.  Who has the power to access and control land, to share or shift narratives, to adapt to social and environmental change?  How do historic systems of oppression and domination manifest in contemporary food and agricultural systems?  How (and why) are food systems both a source of socioecological disruption, and also a critical point of intervention? 

These are some of the broad questions I explore in my research and teaching.

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Peer-Reviewed Publications

Passidomo, C. Forthcoming. Gastroimaginaries: Dreams of Food and Place in Peru and the American South. Under contract with the University of Georgia Press.
 

Passidomo, C. Forthcoming. "Cultural Geographies of Food." In Ashutosh, I. and J. Winders, Eds. The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Cultural and Social Geography.

Firth, J. and C. Passidomo, 2021. "New Orleans' 'Restaurant Renaissance,' Chef Humanitarians, and the New Southern Food Movement." Food, Culture, and Society, 25 (2): 183-200.

Passidomo, C. and S. Wood. 2o2o. "Here, we are all equal: Narratives of food and immigration from the nuevo American South" in Agyeman, J. and S. Giacalone, Eds. The Immigrant-Food Nexus: Border, Labor, and Identity in North America. Cambridge: MIT Press. Pp. 245-260. . 

Passidomo, C. and J. Miller. 2019. "Geography of Food." In Warf, B., Ed. Oxford Bibliographies in Geography. New York: Oxford University Press. 

Passidomo, C. 2018. "Southern foodways in the classroom and beyond." Southern Quarterly, 56 (1): 12-28.

Passidomo, C. (2017). “‘Our' culinary heritage: Obscuring inequality by celebrating diversity in Peru and the U.S. South.” Humanity and Society, 41 (4): 427-445.

Passidomo, C. and I. Van Riper (2017). “Autonomy, coalition-building, and cultural survival:: Towards Food Sovereignty in the U.S. South.” in Desmaris, A., A. Trauger and P. Claeys (EDS.) Public Policies for Food Sovereignty: Social Movements and the State. London: Routledge.

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

Harvey, D., Y. Kato, and C. Passidomo (2016). “Re-building others' communities: A Critical analysis of the role of nonprofits in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.” Local Environment. 21 (8): 1029-1046

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

Kato, Y., D. Harvey and C. Passidomo (2014). “Political gardening in a post-disaster city: Lessons from New Orleans.” Urban Studies, 51 (9): 1833-1849.

Passidomo, C. (2013). “Going 'beyond food': Confronting structures of injustice in food systems research and praxis. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development. 3 (4): 89-93. 

Kurtz, H., A. Trauger and C. Passidomo (2013). “The contested terrain of biological citizenship in the seizure of raw milk in Athens, Georgia.” GEOFORUM, 48: 136-144.

Trauger, A. and C. Passidomo (2012). “Towards a post-capitalist politics of food: Cultivating subjects of community economies.” ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, 11 (2): 282-303.

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COURSE TITLES AND SAMPLE SYLLABI

SOUTHERN FOODWAYS AND CULTURE

Graduate seminar in Southern Studies

INTRODUCTION TO HUMAN GEOGRAPHY

Introductory lecture course.  Cross listed with Anthropology.

FOOD, PLACE, AND POWER

Upper-level undergraduate seminar.  Cross-listed between Anthropology and Environmental Studies.

INTRODUCTION TO THE SOUTH AND FOOD

Introductory lecture course for undergraduates in Southern Studies.

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Selected Public Commentary and Media

McCutcheon, C. 2023. "Food for Thought: Catarina Passidomo Explores Culinary Cultures." The Daily Mississippian, Sept. 15. 
 

"Lawmakers discuss plans to ban critical race theory in Mississippi classrooms." Mississippi Edition interview with Kobe Vance for Mississippi Public Broadcasting, August 2, 2021.
 

Passidomo, C. 2023. "Rooted in Sand: A Reflection on Teaching and Tomatoes." Gravy (88): 22-27. 
 

"Salt, Soil, and Supper" newsletter from Scalawag magazine, interview with Xander Peters. Feb. 10, 2021. 
 

Roundabout Oxford Podcast, 2020. Episode 3: Food. Interview with Alex Watson. 
 

"Faculty Spotlight" interview with Alana Huggins for the Association for the Study of Food and Society. March 2019. 
 

Passidomo, C. 2014. "Why Study Food Justice?" Gravy (53). 
 

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