Elizabeth Hoover
University of California, Berkeley · Forest Science
Active 1991–2023
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About
Elizabeth Hoover is an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management at UC Berkeley. She holds a BA in Anthropology & Psychology from Williams College, an MA in Anthropology with Museum Studies from Brown University, and a PhD in Anthropology from Brown University, with a focus on Environmental and Critical Medical Anthropology. Her research centers on Native American food sovereignty, environmental justice, food justice, and the role of heirloom seeds, with particular attention to Indigenous food systems, health, and environmental movements. Hoover has authored significant works including 'The River is in Us,' which received multiple awards, and has contributed extensively to the understanding of Native American perspectives on food security, environmental health, and sovereignty. Her scholarship also explores the intersections of environmental health, social movements, and Indigenous rights, emphasizing the importance of cultural knowledge and resilience in Native communities.
Research topics
- Medicine
- Internal medicine
- Political science
- Sociology
- Oncology
Selected publications
Journal of Agriculture Food Systems and Community Development · 2022-06-17 · 5 citations
articleOpen accessThe COVID-19 pandemic has unveiled deep and systemic weaknesses and gross inequalities in U.S. food and farming systems, compounding the effects of an already unjust food and agricultural system. Emergent studies reveal disproportionate effects of the pandemic on minority farmers and vulnerable communities, as well as inequitable access to critical relief programs. Less is understood about the experiences and responses of Native American producers, tribal governments, and tribal-led organizatio…
“Our Own Foods as a Healing”: The Role of Health in the Native American Food Sovereignty Movement
Journal for the Anthropology of North America · 2021-10-01 · 5 citations
article1st authorCorrespondingAbstract A wealth of literature has emerged over the past two decades exploring the need for food sovereignty activism to relocalize food production power, promote economic justice, and support more environmentally friendly means of producing food and getting it on the table. What has been less explored is the role of health in the desire to promote food sovereignty. First laying out the history of colonization on Native North American food systems, and then tracing the disease patterns that hav…
2022-01-01 · 4 citations
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingBiology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation · 2020-01-23 · 3 citations
articleOpen accessWhose citizenship in “citizen science”?
Manchester University Press eBooks · 2020-07-14 · 2 citations
book-chapterOpen access1st authorCorrespondingThis chapter explores the experience of the Mohawk community of Akwesasne, a Native American tribe who set out to determine the extent to which a local contaminated site was impacting community health. Akwesasne community members reached out to a research university, eventually partnering on the first large-scale environmental health community-based participatory research project (CBPR) to be conducted in a tribal community. Based on interviews with scientists, community fieldworkers, and study…
Frequent coauthors
- 46 shared
Heather Landau
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
- 39 shared
Hani Hassoun
Cornell University
- 33 shared
Sergio Giralt
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
- 28 shared
Gunjan L. Shah
Kettering University
- 27 shared
Alexander M. Lesokhin
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
- 23 shared
Charles L. Sawyers
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
- 22 shared
Michael Scordo
Cornell University
- 22 shared
Oscar Lahoud
Kettering University
Labs
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Education
- 2010
PhD, Anthropology
Brown University
- 2001
BA, Anthropology and Psychology
Williams College
Awards & honors
- Julian Steward book award from Anthropology & Environment Se…
- Stanford Humanities Center Fellowship (2018-2019)
- Oxford Food Symposium Outstanding New Presenter Award (2018)
- Labriola Center Book Award for The River is in Us (2018)
- Beatrice Medicine Award for Published Monograph for The Rive…
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