Catarina Passidomo

Passidomo is a human geographer whose research focuses on food systems and the relationships among food, place, nature, society, and power. She teaches Food, Place, and Power; Introduction to Environmental Studies; the Capstone seminar; and other courses in Environmental Studies.

Catarina Passidomo

Catarina Passidomo

Associate Professor of Environmental Studies

Curriculum Vitae

Professor Passidomo is a human geographer whose research focuses on food systems and the relationships among food, place, nature, society, and power. She teaches Food, Place, and Power; Introduction to Environmental Studies; the Capstone seminar; and other courses in Environmental Studies. She has published over a dozen academic articles and book chapters. She is currently at work on a book exploring the socioenvironmental ruptures of placemaking through food in Peru and the American South.

Education

  • Ph.D., Geography, University of Georgia
  • M.A., Environmental Anthropology, University of Georgia
  • B.A., Sociology and Anthropology, Washington and Lee University

Research

  • Human Geography
  • Critical Food Studies
  • Human-Environment Interactions
  • Environmental and Social Justice
  • Global/U.S. South

Teaching

  • Food, Place, and Power
  • ENV Capstone
  • Introduction to Environmental Studies

Selected Publications

  • Passidomo, Catarina (2024). “Gastroimaginaries: A framework for conceptualizing narratives of food and place in the American South.” Food, Culture, and Society. Published Online 26 July.

  • Passidomo, Catarina and Jeffrey Miller (2019). “Geographies of Food.” In Warf, Barney, Ed. Oxford Bibliographies in Geography. New York: Oxford, University Press.

  • Passidomo, Catarina (2017). “‘Our’ Culinary Heritage: Obscuring Inequality by Celebrating Diversity in Peru and the U.S. South.” Humanity and Society, 41 (4): 427-445.

  • Passidomo, Catarina (2016). “Community gardening and governance over urban nature in New Orleans’s Lower Ninth Ward.” Urban Forestry and Urban Greening, 19: 271-277.

  • Passidomo, Catarina (2014). “Whose right to (farm) the city: Race and food justice activism in post-Katrina New Orleans.” Agriculture and Human Values, 31 (3): 385-396.