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Jennifer Gaddis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Society & Community Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research focuses on school food politics and systems change at multiple scales, from local to global. Utilizing a care economy and labor-centered perspective, she is the author of the award-winning book, The Labor of Lunch: Why We Need Real Food and Real Jobs in American Public Schools, published by University of California Press in 2019. Gaddis is the principal investigator of a $1.5 million USDA-funded project centered on understanding the school food workforce and has ongoing partnerships with international collaborators to explore global human ecology in school food systems. Her latest co-edited volume, Transforming School Food Politics around the World, will be released by MIT Press in 2024. Gaddis has been recognized for her excellence in research and public outreach by various organizations, including the National Women’s Studies Association and the International Association of Culinary Professionals. In 2024, she will receive the UW-Madison Distinguished Teaching Award.
Department: Department of Computer Sciences