Anne C. Bellows joined the Department of Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition as professor of food studies in January 2013. As University Professor since 2007 at Hohenheim University, Bellows was the tenured chair in the Department of Gender and Nutrition and deputy director of the Institute for Social Sciences in Agriculture in the Faculty of Agriculture. She was also the director of the Research Center for Gender and Nutrition, a think tank for the university.
With an extensive portfolio of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and presentations, her research interests include food and nutrition systems and economies; linkages between sustainable agriculture, development and livelihoods; human rights and the right to adequate food and nutrition, including food and nutrition security; civil society, social movements, and food sovereignty; community public health; urban-rural food linkages in terms of production for trade and household consumption, migration, nutritional health, biodiversity, food safety, food practices and praxis, cultural integrity and identity, social justice, gender, and children. She has been recognized for teaching and research excellence, receiving funding support for her work from diverse agencies and foundations including the American Council of Learned Societies, the International Research and Exchanges Board, Open Society Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, U.S. Agency for International Development, Johnson and Johnson Foundation, Robert Bosch Foundation, Foundation fiat panis, Misereor, Heinrich Böll Foundation, and the European Union-supported EcoFair Trade Dialogue Projects.
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:
The State University of New Jersey, Department of Geography (1991): Doctor of Philosophy, Dissertation: "The Praxis and Production of Food Security: Urban Agriculture in Silesia, Poland"
Certificate, Russian, Central, and East European Studies
City University of New York, The Graduate Cent
er. Liberal Studies (1983): Master of Arts, Focus: Women's Studies and Environmental Psychology. Thesis: "Women's Social Mobility:
A Case Study of the New York City Volunteer Corps"
University of Oregon, Urban and Regional Planning (1983): Master of Urban Planning, Thesis: "The International Tourism Market for Oregon and the West Coast"
Oberlin College, German Literature (1979): Bachelor of Arts
AFFILIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS:
-Service:
2013-present: Professor of Food Studies,Department of Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition, Falk College,
Syracuse University; Director of the developing graduate degree program in food studies.
2007-2012: University Professor and Chair, Gender and Food/Nutrition; Faculty of Agriculture; and
Deputy Director, Institute for Social Sciences in Agriculture, Faculty of Agriculture, Universität
Hohenheim, Germany.
2007-present: Director, Research Center for Gender and Nutrition, Universität Hohenheim. Lead the gender research center for members of Hohenheim Faculties (Agriculture, Basic Sciences, and Economics).
2006-2007: Geography Graduate Faculty, Associate, non-tenure track appointment. Department of
Geography, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA. Faculty adviser, masters and doctoral level
students.
2002-2007: Senior Research Associate, Food Policy Institute (July 2004-present) and New Jersey Urban
Ecology Program (July 2003-June 2004), Rutgers University, NJ.
1999-2001: Post-Doctoral Associate, Department of Nutritional Sciences, Rutgers University, New Jersey,USA.
1993-1999: Senior Program Associate, Center for Russian, Central and East European Studies, Rutgers, NJ, USA.
1991-1992: Country Director, Poland, Forum for Intercultural Communication. Regional research and civic participation project to assess community needs under political and economic decentralization.
-Professional Memberships:
International Geographic Union (IGU), Commission on Gender and Geography
Association of American Geographers (AAG)
Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society (AFHVS)
Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS)
Right to Food and Nutrition Consortium
Community Food Security Coalition (CFSC)
American Community Gardening Association (ACGA)
Community Health and Environment Coalition (CHEC-NB). Municipal organization, New Brunswick, NJ
Second Ward Neighborhood Block Club and Crime Watch of New Brunswick, NJ
Network of East-West Women (NEWW)
National Slavic Honor Society, Dobro Slovo