Elizabeth Finnis

Professor
Department of Sociology & Anthropology
Email: 
efinnis@uoguelph.ca
Phone number: 
519 824 4120 x53234
Keywords: 

agricultural and dietary transitions, local food systems, food sovereignty, political ecology

Education: 
PhD McMaster (2006)

My research addresses the politics, economics, and cultures of smaller-scale farming and local food systems. Geographically, I am interested in Canada, India, and Paraguay, and I use a political ecology lens to to examine food, diet, agricultural transitions, and food sovereignty. My current research examines food production, local food systems, and smaller-scale farming in Parry Sound District, Ontario; some of my other recent research includes working with small-scale farmers on issues of food sovereignty, agriculture, and social/physical environmental change in rural Paraguay. I am interested in supervising graduate students with research interests in medical anthropology, nutritional anthropology, agriculture, food systems, resource issues, rural livelihoods, and gender.

Neufeld, Hannah Tait and Elizabeth Finnis, eds. 2022. Recipes and Reciprocity: Building Relationships in Research. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press. https://uofmpress.ca/books/detail/recipes-and-reciprocity

Finnis, Elizabeth. 2021. Agricultural Persistence and Potentials on the Edge of Northern Ontario. Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment 43(1):60-70. https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cuag.12269

Finnis, Elizabeth, Sofie Lachapelle, and T. Ryan Gregory. 2021. A university course on pandemics: What we learned when 80 experts, 300 alumni and 600 students showed up. The Conversation June 7. https://theconversation.com/a-university-course-on-pandemics-what-we-learned-when-80-experts-300-alumni-and-600-students-showed-up-156277

Finnis, Elizabeth. 2017. Collective Action, Envisioning the Future and Women's Self-help Groups: A case study from India. Indian Journal of Gender Studies 24(1):1-23.

Finnis, Elizabeth, Clotilde Benitez, Estela Fatima Candia Romero and Maria Jose Aparicio Meza. 2013. Agricultural and dietary meanings of mandioca in rural Paraguay. Food and Foodways 21(3):163-185.

Finnis, Elizabeth, Clotilde Benitez, Estela Fatima Candia Romero and Maria Jose Aparicio Meza. 2012. Changes to Agricultural Decision-making and Food Procurement in Rural Paraguay. Latin American Research Review 47(2):180-190.

Finnis, Elizabeth, ed. 2012. Reimagining Marginalized Foods: Global Processes, Local Places. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

Understanding agricultural values and food sovereignty possibilities on the edge of Northern Ontario – SSHRC Insight Development Grant