GGIS Colloquium | Bobby J. Smith II, African American Studies
- Sponsor
- Geography & GIS
- Cost
- This talk is free and open to the public with a Zoom option.
- Registration
- Zoom RSVP
- Contact
- Geography & GIS
- geography@illinois.edu
Dr. Bobby J. Smith II is an award-winning author, social scientist, and Associate Professor in the Department of African American Studies and Fellow in the Policy Design Lab in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics at the University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign with affiliations in the Department of Food Science & Human Nutrition and the Center for Social & Behavioral Science.
Trained as a sociologist, with a background in agricultural economics, Dr. Smith’s research, teaching, and service creates a public interdisciplinary space to explore how Black people’s historical and contemporary relationships to agriculture and food have shaped both their lives and the world. More broadly, Dr. Smith is an expert in food justice, food systems analysis, food equity, agricultural history, agricultural industry issues, and equitable policy design.