IES Seminar: Farming Chicago

  • April 25, 2017
  • 4:00 PM - 5:00 CST
  • IES, Room 123/124
  • Chris Wolff, cwolff@luc.edu
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    Anthropologist Howard Rosing is the director of the Steans Center for Community-based Service Learning at DePaul University. He is a faculty member in Community Service Studies and an affiliate faculty member in Geography, Sustainable Urban Development and Community Psychology at DePaul. Rosing's research focuses on urban food access, economic restructuring, community food systems and food justice movements in Chicago and the Dominican Republic. He is co-author (with Daniel Block) of Chicago: A Food Biography (Rowman and Littlefield, 2015) and author of numerous book chapters and articles including *Growing Community Through Gardens on Chicago's Southwest Side* (In: Sowing Seeds in the City, Springer, 2016) and *Farming Chicago* (In: Metropolitan Universities Journal, Winter 2017.) He holds a PhD in Anthropology from the State University of New York-Binghamton.