Emily Southard

Emily Southard

  • PhD Candidate, Rural Sociology & Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Areas of Expertise

  • Food-systems labor and exploitation
  • Women's empowerment in agriculture
  • International development
  • Climate change and gender in agriculture
  • Gender and migration

Education

  • 2021 M.S. in Rural Sociology and International Agriculture and Development from Penn State University
  • 2018 B.S. in Agriculture and Society and Global Resource Systems from Iowa State University

Emily's research is broadly concerned with gendered divisions of labor in the agri-food system.