Glenn Davis Stone

Senior Research Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Studies

E: gdavisstone@wlu.edu

Cultural, ecological, and historical aspects of food systems, agricultural production (both smallholder/sustainable and industrial), and technological change (especially biotechnology and GMO’s). Research in Nigeria, India, Philippines, and Appalachia/Virginia. Current projects on digital agriculture and eugenics.

Selected Publications

2025 Black Swans and Safety Nets: Food Aid, Dispersal, and Eugenics in Corbin Hollow. Southern Anthropologist, forthcoming (with R. Robinson)
2025 Skill Talk: The Struggle over Agricultural Decision-Making. Outlook on Agriculture 54(2).
2025 GM crops and the Jevons Paradox: Induced Innovation, Systemic Effects, and Net Pesticide Increases from Pesticide-Decreasing Crops. Journal of Agrarian Change (with A. Flachs and 2 others).
2022 The Agricultural Dilemma (How Not to Feed the World). Routledge, Oxford.
2022 Surveillance Agriculture and Peasant Autonomy. Journal of Agrarian Change 2022:1-24.
2021 Genetically Modified Crops. Oxford Research Encyclopedia.
2020 Long-Term Impacts of Bt Cotton in India. Nature Plants: 6:188-196 (with K.R. Kranthi).
2020 Golden Rice and Technology Adoption Theory. Technology in Society 60:101227 (with D. Glover and S. Kim).
2018 Agriculture as Spectacle. Journal of Political Ecology df(1).
2017 Dreading CRISPR: GMO’s, Honest Brokers, and Mertonian Transgressions. Geographical Review 187:584-591