Angie Carter

Contact

ancarter@mtu.edu
906-487-1431
Academic Office Building

ResearchGate Profile

Associate Professor, Environmental/Energy Justice
Please note: Not accepting new graduate students 2023-2024

PhD, Sociology and Sustainable Agriculture, Iowa State University
MS, Rural Sociology, Iowa State University
MFA, Creative Writing, University of Arizona
BA, English and French, University of Iowa

Areas of Expertise

Environmental & rural sociology
Community-based and participatory research
Social movements and social change
Gender & ecofeminism
Agrifood systems

Recent Publications

Thompson, D. and A. Carter. 2022. Intersections Between Rural Studies and Food Justice in the U.S.: Some Implications for Today and the Future. Food, Culture & Society. 10.1080/15528014.2022.2138319
Lu, H. and A. Carter. 2022. Emergent regional collaborative governance in rural local food systems development. Community Development. 10.1080/15575330.2022.2135550
Carter, A. and R. Christoffel. 2022. Social Networks as Conservation Practice: Targeting Wetland Conservation for Women Landowners. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 77(5):69A-74A. doi:10.2489/jswc.2022.0614A
Carter, A. 2022. Cultivating Community Resilience: Working in Solidarity in and Beyond Crisis. Gender, Food and Agriculture During the Coronavirus Pandemic. Paige Castellanos, Carolyn Sachs, Ann Tickamyer, eds. Routledge.
Carter, Angie. 2021. Tributaries: On Thinking Downstream. Compelling Ground: Landscapes, Environments, and Peoples of Iowa. Iowa State University Brunnier Art Museum.
Wellstead, A., A. Gofen & A. Carter. 2021. Policy innovation lab scholarship: past, present, and the future Introduction to the special issue on policy innovation labs. Policy Design and Practice DOI: 10.1080/25741292.2021.1940700
Basche, A. and A. Carter. 2021. Training future agricultural professionals in landowner-tenant conservation decision-making. Natural Sciences Education 50(1) https://doi.org/10.1002/nse2.20035
Burkett, E. and A. Carter. 2020. "It's Not about the Fish: Women's Experiences in a Gendered Recreation Landscape. Leisure Sciences: An Interdisciplinary Journal. DOI: 10.1080/01490400.2020.1780522
Carter, A. 2020. Women’s farm organizations in the United States: Protecting and transforming agricultural power. Routledge Handbook of Gender and Agriculture, 275-286. http://doi.org/10.4324/9780429199752-25
Carter, A. and A. Lazaro Lopez. 2019. "Rebranding the Farmer: Formula Story Revision and Masculine Symbolic Boundaries in US Agriculture." Feminist Formations 31:3: 25-50. DOI: 10.1353/ff.2019.0029
Carter, A. and A. Kruzic. 2019. "'No Soil in Our Oil!": Shifting Narratives from Commodities to the Commons." in Social Movements Contesting Natural Development. John Devlin, Ed. New York: Routledge.
Carter, A. 2019. "We Don't Equal Even Just One Man": Gender and Social Control in Conservation Adoption." Society & Natural Resources 32(8): 893-910. DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2019.1584657
Carter, A., B. Wells, and A. Kruzic. 2019. "Social Justice, Corporate Influence, and Development: Defending the Public Interest at a State University." Theory in Action 12(1): 54-85. DOI:10.3798/tia.1937-0237.1902
Carter, A., C. Chennault, and A. Kruzic. 2018. "Public Action for Public Science: Re-Imagining the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture." Capitalism Nature Socialism 29(1): 69-88. DOI:10.1080/10455752.2017.1423364
Carter, A. and A. Kruzic. 2017. "Centering the Commons, Creating Space for the Collective: Ecofeminist #NoDAPL Praxis in Iowa." Journal of Social Justice 7:2-22. ISSN: 2064-7100.
Carter, A. 2017. "Placeholders and Changemakers: Women Farmland Owners Navigating Gendered Expectations." Rural Sociology 82(3): 499-523. DOI:10.1111/ruso.12131
Carter, A. 2017. "Changes on the Land: Gender and Power of Social Networks." Pp. 76-93 in Land Justice: Re-Imagining Land, Food and the Commons in the United States. Eric Holt-Gimenez and Justine Williams, eds. Oakland: Food First.
Carter, A., B. Wells, J. Soulis, and A. Hand. 2016. "Building Power Through Community: Women Creating and Theorizing Change." Pp. 225-239 in Women in Agriculture Worldwide: Key Issues and Practical Approaches. Amber J. Fletcher and Wendee Kubik, eds. New York: Routledge.
Carter, A., C. M. Prado-Meza, J. Soulis, and D. Thompson Bello. 2014. "Students Creating Curriculum Change: Sustainable Agriculture and Social Justice." Journal of Critical Thought and Praxis 3(1):article 5. DOI:10.31274/jctp-180810-27.

Recent Funding

Carter, A. May 2021-May 2023. Building Momentum to Improve Farm to School Capacity, Small Farm Viability, and Healthy Local Food Access in UP Schools. Subcontract in partnership with Western UP Planning & Development Region and Taste the Local Difference with funding from Michigan Health Endowment Fund. $22,573.
Carter, A. May 2021-July 2022. Western UP Community Food Survey. Portage Health Foundation. $36,510.
Carter, A., M. Seguin, R. Pressley. Jan 2020-July 2022. Seeding Rural Development: Creating Resiliency Through Gardening. Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development. $19,147.
Carter, A. Jan 2021-Dec 2023. Growing Food, Feeding Communities of Practice: Preliminary Analysis of Community Food Provider Networks in Western Upper Peninsula. Rural Sociological Society Early Career Award. $1,680.
Carter, A. Jan-Dec 2022. Western Upper Peninsula Communities Food Systems Assessment Phase 1. Portage Health Foundation Research Excellence Fund Seed Proposal. $21,111.
Gofan, A., A. Wellstead, and A. Carter. October 2019-December 2024. Era of 'Labification': Solving Disruptive Social Problems through Policy and Social Innovation Labs. Binational Science Foundation. $168,194.
Gierke, J., A. Mayer, L. Bowman, A. Carter, F. Liu. May 2019-2023. Collaborative Research: Coupling participatory and hydrological research for adapting to extreme hydrometeorological events in agricultural communities in El Salvador. National Science Foundation IRES Track III: Collaborative Research. $881,974.
Basche, A. and A. Carter. 2019-2022. "Partnering in Conservation: Engaging Women Farmland Owners and their Tenants in Collaborative Conservation Planning." North Central Region Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (NCR-SARE) Partnership Grant. United States Department of Agriculture. $40,000.

Research Projects

Co-editing Race & Racism in Rural America edited volume with Keiko Tanaka, Mark Harvey, and Kenneth Robinson, preparing to submit to the Rural Sociological Society's Rural Studies Series fall 2021
Collaboration with the Western UP Food Systems Collaborative studying community food systems & food justice
- Ongoing analysis of Western UP food systems knowledge and food exchange networks to inform programmatic interventions and policy recommendations, including farm to school integration and western UP community food survey
- Current community-based research project creating and studying use of therapy and culinary gardens among at-risk populations at the Barbara Gundlach Women's Shelter in Calumet, MI and Horizons Alternative High School in Mohawk, MI
Collaborations with Women, Food and Agriculture Network studying women farmland owners and conservation adoption
- On-going River Stories: Views from a Watershed photovoice project with women landowners & farmers in Iowa's most polluted watersheds
Grassroots movements to protect the commons, including research studying Dakota Access Pipeline resistance and advocacy for clean water in Iowa

Teaching Experience

SS 2700 Introduction to Sociology
SS 3110 Food Systems & Sustainability
SS 3805 Environmental Justice
SS 4211 Ethnographic Methods
SS 4700 Communities and Research
SS 5720 Social Thought and Contemporary Issues