Institute for Global Studies
214 Social Sciences
269 19th Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Phone: 612-624-9007
Fax: 612-626-2242
E-mail: igs@umn.edu

Rachel Schurman

612-624-4300
Sociology Department 909 Social Science Tower

Department Affiliations


Specialties

  • Sociology of development
  • Political sociology
  • Transnational studies
  • Environmental and natural resource sociology
  • Agrofood studies

Educational Background

  • Ph.D.: University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 1993.

Publications

  • Engineering Trouble: Biotechnology and its Discontents. Schurman, Rachel, Dennis Takahashi Kelso, University of California Press, Co-Editor, 2003.
  • Shuckers, Sorters, Headers and Gutters: Labor in the Seafood Sector: Schurman, Rachel, Duke University Press, Victims of the Chilean Miracle: Workers and Neoliberalism in the Pinochet Era, 2004.
  • "Fighting Frankenfoods: Industry Structures and the Efficacy of the Anti-Biotech Movement in Western Europe": Schurman, Rachel, Social Problems, 51(2) 243-268, 2004.
  • Ideas, Thinkers, and Social Networks: Schurman, Rachel, with William Munro, Theory and Society, 35(1): 1-38, 2006.

Courses Taught

  • GloS 4910 - Pineapples to Peace Coffee
  • GloS 3900 - Food, Culture & Society
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