In the Food Dignity project, we fully funded five people to garner master’s degrees at University of Wyoming and partially funded three doctoral students (in some cases paying only a small fraction of the costs) who earned PhDs at Cornell University or University of California, Davis. This support comprised the bulk of our education spending, at $396,000 total.

 

Relevant Food Dignity-related resources

​Graduate Student Theses:

• Gregory (2017) "Enhancing urban food production, ecosystem services, and learning in community gardens through cover cropping and participatory action research." (Doctoral Dissertation). Horticulture Department, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Full text.

• Gaechter. (2016) "It’s 'Ultimately about Dignity:' Understanding Social Movement Frames of the Food Dignity Project." (Master's Thesis). Division of Kinesiology & Health, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY. Full text.

• Lewis. (2016) "Why do gardeners grow? Perceived effects of home and community garden food production." (Master's Thesis). Division of Kinesiology & Health, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY. Full text.

• Bradley. (2015) "Supporting Urban Agriculture for Food Justice: An allyship lens on decolonizing research, urban farmer-to-farmer learning, and the neoliberalism critique in the East Bay, California" (Doctoral Dissertation). Department of Geography, University of California, Davis, CA. Full text.

• Armstrong. (2015) "Engaging Stories: Meanings, goodness, and identity in daily life." (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Full text.

• Arthur. (2015) "Northern Arapaho Food Sovereignty." (Master's Dissertation). Division of Kinesiology & Health, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY. Full text.

• Conk. (2015) "Quantifying Yields of Home and Community Gardens in Laramie, WY." (Master's Thesis). Division of Kinesiology & Health, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY. Full text.

• McCrackin. (2012) "Building Sustainable Food Systems through Local Gardening Projects: Testing the Impact of Minigrants on Generating Project Action." (Master's Dissertation.) Division of Kinesiology & Health, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY. Full text.

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Other Related Resources:

• Bradley, K., Gregory M.M., Armstrong, J.A., Arthur, M.L., and Porter, C.M. (2018). Graduate students bringing emotional rigor to the heart of community-university relations in Food Dignity. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 8(Supp. 1).

• Porter, C.M. (2018). Fostering formal learning in the Food Dignity project. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 8(Supp. 1).

• Porter, C.M. & Wechsler (2018). Follow the money: Resource allocation and academic supremacy among community and university partners in Food Dignity. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 8(Supp. 1).

• Armstrong, J., Dickey, T., Lindemann, J., and Rosario, M. (2015) Engaging Research/Engaging Cornell: Graduate students, public engagement, and the land grant mission of Cornell University. A report, Cornell University.

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