Tevis Garrett Graddy-Lovelace

(she)

Garrett Graddy-Lovelace researches and teaches agricultural policy and agrarian geography as Provost Associate Professor at American University School of International Service's Environment, Development & Health Department. Her scholarship on agricultural biodiversity, the US Farm Bill, agrarian crisis, bioethics, and anti/colonial legacies in agrifood gepolitics draws upon community-based action research with grassroots agrarian organizations. She co-founded and co-leads: AU's Ethnographies of Empire Research Cluster, the Agroecology Research-Action Collective (agroecologyresearchaction.org), the Disparity to Parity project (disparitytoparity.org), Ujamaa Cooperative Farming Alliance's Policy Working Group, the Pointing the Farm Bill toward Racial Justice project (https://www.farmbillfairness.org/), AU's Earth Scholars Honors Program, and the Policy Cluster of the NSF Multiscale RECIPES for Sustainable Food Systems grant on wasted food prevention.

Experience

  • –present
    Associate Professor in the School of International Service, American University

Honours

AU SIS's Innovative Teaching Award (2024); AU's Inaugural Provost Associate Professorship (2022); SIS' Scholar-Teacher of the Year (2022); AU SIS' Excellence in PhD Mentoring Award (2022); AU SIS' Cromwell Outstanding Teaching Award (2020); Campus Compact Mid-Atlantic’s Alan G. Penczek Service-Learning Faculty Award (2018)

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