Erica Zurawski

Thrilled doesn't quite capture the sheer joy I feel in finally being able to share that I will be joining @sunyesf.bsky.social as Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies!

Happy publication day to this article I started working on in 2017. I'm quite proud of this one but even more thrilled that it is out in the wild now for all to see.

read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta...

Hard to tell from the hotel view, but I’m in Detroit for #AAG if anyone feels inclined to say hi!

USDA cancels $1B in local food purchasing for schools, food banks States have been notified that they will not receive 2025 funding for schools to buy food from nearby farms.

Remember those stories that tried to downplay RFK Jr’s deadly campaign against vaccines by saying that the Trump administration would make everybody healthy through access to fresh unprocessed food?

How does canceling a billion dollars worth of local food for school and food banks fit with that?

From what I can see, they seem unbothered

School Lunches and Food Banks Will Never Be the Same. The Devastating Impact of the USDA’s Local Food Program Cancellation

What I'm reading alongside this news --> substack.com/home/post/p-...

USDA cancels $1B in local food purchasing for schools, food banks States have been notified that they will not receive 2025 funding for schools to buy food from nearby farms.

This is a truly devastating development for so many people and sectors. I can only imagine how hard-won these contracts and purchasing programs were.

www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

I'll take being featured in this article as a sign that now is a good time to break my social media hiatus and (re)introduce myself and my work on here.

This article is a good lil' teaser of my article coming out in #EnvironmentalHumanities, so more to come on that front!

I've started an extremely baby starter pack for medical sociology. Please help me expand it! go.bsky.app/KrqLzcR

Hey folks!
I (@aasewell.bsky.social) have created an account to think on sociology, as a discipline, can engage the issues of our time. Te account will build capacity through three stages:

1) people (sociologists),
2) research (studies), and
3) interpretation (science).

Let me elaborate.

go.bsky.app/S8aNPG9

I would love to join! Thank you for making this.

There’s a human geog one here too, from @samkinsley.uk

go.bsky.app/SAK9wfm

I made a Sociology Starter Pack. Its just a start, so let me know if you want to be added.
go.bsky.app/QqTLQau

I would love to join!

Where are my food historians / food studies peeps? I started a #foodhistory / #foodstudies #starterpack. Absolutely let me know if you'd like to be added (or removed for that matter).

go.bsky.app/Evp1Stc

I'm also quite passionate about inclusive and joy-filled teaching and tend to post my syllabi and student work on my website. I think it is pretty cool so you should check it out: ericazurawski.com/teaching/

Looking forward to forging new community here!

I guess now is as good a time as any for introdocutions! Hi, new and old friends!

I'm Erica, a PhD candidate in Sociology at UC Santa Cruz. I play around at the intersections of feminist legal geographies, urban studies, critical food studies, and environmental history.