Selected Publications

Book Manuscript

Forthcoming               The Power of Seeds & Politics of Agricultural Biodiversity (M.I.T. Press’s Food, Health & Environment Series)           

Peer-reviewed Articles & Peer-reviewed Book Chapters (*=my grad student)

2024    Graddy-Lovelace, G., S. Brock, B. Jain* "Agrarianizing Climate Accords & Discord: Food, Agriculture & Agrarian Movements at the UNFCCC Conference of the Parties" Climate & Development. 1-15. Special Issue: "Power & (In)Justice in Glocal Climate Governance: Collaborative Event Ethnography of the UNFCCC Process" 

2024     Foscetta, A., K. Crespo Treviño, R. Tenney, J. Nazario, G. Graddy-Lovelace, M. Gardner. “Growing Change at the Intersection of Art & Agroecology” Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems & Community Development. Special Issue: “Commentaries from the 2023 Agroecology Summit”

2024     Graddy-Lovelace, G. and Antonio Roman-Alcalá. “Agroecology Beyond the Statist Quo? Re-Transforming Imperial U.S. Agricultural Policy” for Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems & Community Development. Special Issue: “Commentaries from the 2023 Agroecology Summit”

2024     [Co-author] “A Declaration of Commitments toward Agroecology Pluralities: A Critical Gaze  on the 2023 US Agroecology Summit” for Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems & Community Development.  Special Issue: “Commentaries from the 2023 Agroecology Summit” (2024-2860)

2024     Graddy-Lovelace, G. and Malini Ranganathan. “Geopolitical Ecologies for Our Times” Invited Guest Editorial for Political Geography

2023  Graddy-Lovelace, G. “Towards Abolitionist Agrarian Geographies of Kentucky” Environment & Planning E: Nature & Space. Special Issue: “Geographies of Hope in Praxis: Collaboratively Decolonizing Relations and Cultivating Relational Spaces”

2023     Limeberry, V.* and G. Graddy-Lovelace “Data & the Seed: Democratizing Research for         Emancipatory Policy & Agrobiodiversity Governance” Droit et Cultures: Revue international interdisciplinaire. Special Issue: “Collaboration in Crop Diversity Management” (Invited) {OA}

2023     Graddy-Lovelace, G., Krikorian, J.*, A. Jewett*, A. Vivekanandan*, K. Stahl*, B. Wilson, I. Shekhar Singh, G. Naylor, P. Naylor, J. Pennick. “Parity as Radical Pragmatism: Centering Farm Justice & Agrarian Expertise in Agricultural Policy” Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. Special Issue: “Critical Praxis and Social Imaginary for Sustainable Food Systems”

2023     Walsh, E., S. Muñoz, J. Auerbach, G. Graddy-Lovelace, V. Limeberry*, et al. “Displacement of  the Scholar II: Reimagining Institutional Support for PAR Post-Covid” Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems {OA}

2022   Graddy-Lovelace, G. “From Obstruction to Decolonization? Contested Sovereignty, the Seed Treaty & Biocultural Rights in the United States & Beyond” For Biocultural Rights and Community Protocols: Protecting and Promoting Indigenous Peoples’ and Local Communities’ Ways of Life. Eds. F. Girard, I. Hall, G. Filoche, C. Frisson.

2022     Auerbach, J., S. Muñoz, G. Graddy-Lovelace, V. Limeberry* et al. “Displacement of the Scholar? Participatory Action Research under COVID-19 and a Re-imagining of University Support” Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems

2021    Graddy-Lovelace, G. and Patti Naylor. “Disparity to Parity to Solidarity: Balancing the Scales of Agricultural Policy for Justice & Viability” for Development. Special Issue “Resetting Power in Global Food Governance: The United Nations Food Systems Summit”

2021   Graddy-Lovelace, G. “Seeking (Food) Sovereignty Beyond the State? Limits of Liberalism & Neoliberalism in International Anti-Hunger Advocacy” A Review of M. Jurkovich’s Feeding the Hungry: Advocacy and Blame in the Global Fight Against Hunger. In H-Diplo (H-Net network for Diplomatic History, International Affairs, Foreign Policy, International Relations, Peacekeeping Studies, Nuclear History and Policy Studies, and Transnational Studies)

2021   Graddy-Lovelace, G. “Leveraging Law & Life: Criminalization of Agrarian Movements & the Escazú Agreement” For Our Hyper-Extractive Age: Expressions of Violence and Resistance. Routledge Press. Eds. J. Shapiro and J.A. McNeish 

2021     Montenegro, M., A. Iles, A. Shattuck, G. Graddy-Lovelace, J. Chappell, A. Roman-Alcalá.  “Getting our House in Order: Principles for accountable food systems research from the Agroecology Research-Action Collective” Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems & Community Development

2020     Graddy-Lovelace, G. “Re-Orienting Policy for Growing Food to Nourish Communities”\ Agriculture & Human Values. Special collection: “Agriculture, Food & Covid-19” 29 April. 37(3): 623-625 

2020     Graddy-Lovelace, G. “Farmer & Non-Farmer Responsibility to Each Other: Negotiating the  Social Contracts & Public Good of Agriculture” Journal of Rural Studies 

2020     Graddy-Lovelace, G. “Attending to Plants: Crop Diversity Pre-Breeding Technologies as Agrarian Care Co-opted?” Area. Special issue: “Limits & Topologies of Care” 52(2): 235-243 DOI:10.1111/area.12499 [published online in 2018]

2020     M. Edelman, G. Graddy-Lovelace, and A. Roman-Alcalá. “Emancipatory Politics & Authoritarianism in Rural United States” Journal of Rural Studies. Special Issue Introduction: “Emancipatory Politics & Authoritarian Populism in Rural United States”

2020     Graddy-Lovelace, G., A. Diamond and N. Ichikawa. “Contextualizing the Farm Bill: Questions of Agricultural Governance” Renewable Agriculture & Food Systems (formerly American Journal of Alternative Agriculture). Special Issue Introduction: “U.S. Farm Bill: Policy, Politics & Potential”

2020     Graddy-Lovelace, G. “Garden Griot & Freedom Farming” Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems & Community Development. Special Issue Introduction: “Reflections on Monica White’s Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance & the Black Freedom Movement” 

2019     Graddy-Lovelace, G. “U.S. Farm Policy as Fraught Populism: Tracing the Scalar Tensions of Nationalist Agricultural Governance” Annals of American Association of Geographers. Special issue: “Environmental Governance in a Populist/Authoritarian Era” 109(2): 1-17. 

- Republished in (2019) Environmental Governance in a Populist/Authoritarian Era, ed. J. McCarthy. Routledge Press. ISBN: 978-0-367-34653-9

2019     Fagundes*, C., J. Mleczko*, L. Picciano, W. Tillman, G. Graddy-Lovelace, S. Schwier*, F. Hall*, and T. Watson* “Ecological Costs of Discrimination: Red Cedar, Racism & Resilience in Farm Bill Conservation Policy in Oklahoma” Renewable Agriculture & Food Systems. Special Issue: “U.S. Farm Bill: Policy, Politics & Potential” 1-15. 

2019     Graddy-Lovelace, G. “Scales of Reference and Reckoning” Antipode. Special Forum Intervention: “Streams into Rivers of Justice: Radical Geographies of Ecology & Spirit” {OA}

2018     Fernández, M., J. Williams, G. Figueroa*, G. Graddy-Lovelace, M. Machado, L. Vásquez, N. Pérez, L. Casimiro, G. Romero, and F. Funes Aguilar. “New Opportunities, New Challenges: Harnessing Cuba’s Advances in Sustainable Agriculture under Normalizing Relations” Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene. Forum: “Cuba’s Agri-Food System in Transition” 6:76. [With Spanish translation, in same special issue] {OA}                        

2018     Orozco, A*., A. Ward*, and G. Graddy-Lovelace. “Documenting USDA Discrimination: Community-Based Research on Farm Policy & Land Justice” ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies. 17(4): 999-1023 {OA}                     

2018     Graddy-Lovelace, G. “United States-Cuba Agricultural Relations & Agrarian Questions” Journal of Agrarian Change. 18(1): 43-66 [published online in 2016]

2017     Graddy-Lovelace, G. “Latent Alliances: The Women’s March & Agrarian Feminism as Opportunities of & for Political Ecology” Gender, Place & Culture. Special issue: “Emergent Spaces in the Women’s March: Intersectionality & Inclusion” 24(5): 674-695

2017     Graddy-Lovelace, G. and A. Diamond. “From Supply Management to Agricultural Subsidies— and Back Again? US Farm Bill & Agrarian (In)Viability” Journal of Rural Studies. 50: 70-83

2017     Graddy-Lovelace, G. “The Coloniality of US Agricultural Policy: Articulating Agrarian (In)Justice” Journal of Peasant Studies. 44:1, 78-99 [published online in 2016]

- Selected for Kelly, R., et al (2020). An annotated bibliography on structural racism present in the U.S. food system (8th ed.). Michigan State University Center for Regional Food Systems.

- Selected for Journal of Peasant Studies’ 2017 compilation “Rural Topical Issues: Critical Perspectives on Rural Politics & Development

2016     Iles, A., G. Graddy-Lovelace, M. Montenegro, and R. Galt. “Agricultural Systems: Co-Producing Knowledge and Food” In The Science and Technology Studies Handbook, 4^th edition, eds. U. Felt, C. Miller. M.I.T. Press. Pp 943-972.

2016     Graddy-Lovelace, G., A. Harnish, and J. Hazelwood. “World Is Burning, Sky Is Falling, All Hands on Deck: Reflections on Action-Oriented Socio-Environmental Scholarship” In The Environment in Anthropology: A Reader in Ecology, Culture & Sustainable Living, 2^nd edition, eds. N. Haenn, R. Wilk, A. Harnish. New York University Press. Pp 445-481.

2014     Graddy, T.G. “Situating in situ: A Critical Geography of Agricultural Biodiversity Conservation in the Peruvian Andes & Beyond” Antipode. 46(2): 426-454.

2013     Graddy, T.G. “Regarding Biocultural Heritage: in situ Political Ecology of Agricultural Biodiversity in the Peruvian Andes” Agriculture & Human Values. 30(4): 587-604.

Guest Editor, Journal Themed Issues 

2023-      Editorial Collective (V. Limeberry*, M. Montenegro, D. Luna-Gonzalez, M. Cely-Santos, A. Keleman, G. Graddy-Lovelace, K. Zimmerer,) “Agrobiodiversity Nourishes Us/La Agrobiodiversidad Nos Nutre: Research-Action for Agroecological Transformations” Bilingual special feature for Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene.

2020  Roman-Alcalá, A., G. Graddy-Lovelace, and M. Edelman (editors) “Emancipatory Politics & Authoritarian Populism in Rural United States” Journal of Rural Studies

2020   G. Graddy-Lovelace (editor) “Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance & the Black Freedom Movement – Collected Commentaries” Journal of Food, Community Agriculture & Sustainable Development {OA}

2020  Graddy-Lovelace, G., A. Diamond and N. Ichikawa (editors) “The United States  Farm Bill: Policy, Politics & Potential” Renewable Agriculture & Food Systems (formerly American Journal of Alternative Agriculture) {OA}

Work In Progress

Honors, Awards, and Fellowships

2024    Inaugural Innovative Teaching Award, AU School of International Service                

2022    Excellent in PhD Mentoring Award, AU School of International Service

2022    Scholar-Teacher of the Year Award, AU School of International Service’s

2022    Awarded American University’s campus-wide Inaugural Provost Associate Award

2022    School of International Service’s Nominee for AU-wide ‘Excellence in Teaching – Tenure Track’ Award

2020     William Cromwell Award for Outstanding Teaching, School of International Service, AU

2018     Winner of the Campus Compact Mid-Atlantic’s Alan G. Penczek Service-Learning Faculty Award in the private institution category

2018     Practicum Featured as First Model Program for Environmental Engagement, Building Just Communities, Campus Compact Mid-Atlantic 2018 Report

2014     William M. LeoGrande Award for best article or book in Latin American or Latino Studies at American University (for Antipode article)

2010     Provost’s Outstanding Teaching Award, University of Kentucky

2009     College of Arts & Sciences Certificate of Outstanding Teaching, University of Kentucky

2008     Latin America Specialty Group Field Study Award, Association of American Geographers

2007     Dissertation Enhancement Award, Graduate School, University of Kentucky

2007     James S. Brown Graduate Research in Appalachia Award, University of Kentucky

2004-7  Multi-Year Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Kentucky

2004-7  Daniel Reedy Quality Achievement Award, Graduate School, University of Kentucky

2002-2004        Harvard Divinity School Merit Scholarship (covering full tuition)