Hannah Wittman, PhD

Phone: 778 782-6632
Email: hwittman@sfu.ca

Hannah Wittman is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Latin American Studies at Simon Fraser University. She conducts collaborative research on local food systems, farmer networks and citizenship with the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) and La Vía Campesina in Brazil and with local food networks in British Columbia as part of an international network of scholars engaged in applied and theoretical applications of the concept of food sovereignty. With specific research interests in environmental sociology, agrarian citizenship, and agrarian social movements, she has published articles in the Journal of Rural Studies, Journal of Peasant Studies, the Canadian Journal of Development Studies, Land Degradation and Development and Human Organization, and is co-editor of the forthcoming books:  Global Food Sovereignty and Food Sovereignty: An Alternative Canadian Food and Agricultural Policy.