Ideas / Writing and notes
This is where I share research, shorter pieces, and notes on articles or questions that have stayed with me.
Emerging research on a possible soil, plant, and human gut microbiome axis offers a reason to study food systems as living, interconnected systems—without getting ahead of what the evidence can support.
Read summary and excerpt →A food-safety outbreak and a season of wildfires look like very different stories. Both raise questions about what becomes harder to see—and harder to protect—when food is disconnected from the communities and landscapes supporting it.
Read summary and excerpt →An inquiry into what US policy would need to change for regenerative practices to move from scattered adoption toward a durable agricultural transition.
Read summary and excerpt →Goats can manage brush, reach difficult terrain, produce culturally important food, and offer ranchers another source of revenue. Whether those pieces fit depends on the land and the operation.
Read summary and excerpt →Selected college work
These are selected projects rather than a complete course archive. For now, each is represented by a short description; edited excerpts or full pieces can be added after a separate publication review.
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A team-built camera and machine-learning prototype for monitoring tempeh fermentation and identifying the onset of sporulation. The project brought together food science, hardware design, experimental methods, and image classification.
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A proposed spatial study of whether proximity to concentrated animal feeding operations in North Carolina is associated with unequal environmental and public-health burdens.
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A comparative analysis of Austria and Germany that asks how national history and sociotechnical imaginaries shape sharply different approaches to nuclear energy.
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An essay prompted by Harvard’s Resetting the Table exhibition, examining how globalization changes the cultural meaning, accessibility, and perceived value of food.