Our Other Publications
Co-Authored Pieces
Mares, Teresa and Minkoff-Zern, Laura-Anne. In Press. “A New Opening for Worker Justice in the Food System: Reconsidering Essential Work and Essential Workers.” In Nurturing Food Justice. Alison Alkon and Julian Agyeman (Eds). M.I.T Press.
Mares, Teresa; Minkoff-Zern, Laura-Anne. “Worker Driven Social Responsibility in the Food System,” 2024. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Food Studies. Ed. Darra Goldstein. New York: Oxford University Press.
Our Other Books
Our Other Articles (Selected)
Dudley, Mary Jo, Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern, Michelle Tynan, Anna Zoodsma. 2025. “Thinking Across Agrarian Hierarchies in Guest Worker Programs: Limitations to Worker and Farmer Collective Strategies.” Human Geography. Human Geography, 18(1), 31-45.
Spence, Emma H., Meredith T. Niles; Farryl Bertmann; Teresa Mares; and Emily Belarmino. 2024. “Higher rates of Food Insecurity and Stress Experienced by Food Systems Workers during the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Frontiers in Nutrition.
Zoodsma, Anna, Dudley, Mary Jo and Minkoff-Zern, Laura-Anne, 2022. National food security, immigration reform, and the importance of worker engagement in agricultural guestworker debates. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 11(4): 1–13.
Minkoff-Zern, Laura-Anne, Dudley, Mary Jo, Anna Zoodsma, Bhavneet Walia, and Rick Welsh. 2022. “Protracted Dependence and Unstable Relations: Agrarian Questions in the H-2A Visa Program.” Journal of Rural Studies. 93: 43-45.
Goldberg, Hanna and Minkoff-Zern, Laura-Anne. 2022. Teaching labor in food studies: challenging consumer-based approaches to social change through student research community partnerships. Food, Culture & Society. 25(2): 328-344.
Weiler, Anelyse M., Sexsmith, Kathleen and Minkoff-Zern, Laura-Anne. 2021. “Parallel Precarity: A Comparison of U.S. and Canadian Agricultural Guest Worker Programs.” International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food. 26 (2): 143-163.
Jessie Mazar and Teresa Mares, 2020, “Food is a Gift from the Earth: Food Sovereignty Among Migrant Farmworkers in Rural Vermont,” In Food Insecurity: A Matter of Justice, Sovereignty, and Survival eds. Tamar Mayar and Molly D. Anderson. (London: Routledge Press).
Lisa Meierotto, Teresa Mares, and Seth Holmes. 2020. “Introduction to the Symposium: The Well-Being of Latinx Farmworkers in a Time of Change,” Symposium on Farmworker Wellbeing in Agriculture and Human Values 37.1: 187-196
Teresa Mares, Naomi Wolcott-MacCausland, Julia Doucet, Andy Kolovos, and Marek Bennett. 2020. “Using Chiles and Comics to Address the Physical and Emotional Wellbeing of Farmworkers in Vermont’s Borderlands,” Symposium on Farmworker Wellbeing in Agriculture and Human Values 37.1: 197-208
Naomi Wolcott-Causland, Teresa Mares, and Daniel Baker. 2020. “Health By Mail: Mail Order Medication Practices of Latinx Dairy Worker Households on the Northern U.S. Border ,” Symposium on Farmworker Wellbeing in Agriculture and Human Values 37.1: 225-236.
Minkoff-Zern, Laura-Anne. 2017. “The Case for Taking Account of Labor in Sustainable Food Systems in The United States.” Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems. 32(6): 576-578.
Teresa Mares, Naomi Wolcott-MacCausland, and Jessie Mazar. 2017. “Eating Far From Home: Latino/a Workers and Food Sovereignty in Rural Vermont.” In Food Across Borders, eds. Matt Garcia, E. Melanie DuPuis, and Don Mitchell. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 181-200.
Teresa Mares, 2017. “Navigating Gendered Labor and Local Food: A Tale of Working Mothers in Vermont,” Food and Foodways. 25.3: 177-192.
Levkoe, Charles Z, McClintock, Nathan, Minkoff-Zern, Laura-Anne, Coplen, Amy K., Gaddis, Jennifer, Lo, Joann, Tendick-Matesanz, Felipe, and Weiler, Anelyse. 2016. “Forging Links Between Food Chain Labor Activists and Academics.” Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development. Special Issue on Labor in the Food System. 6 (2).
Cecile Reuge and Teresa Mares, 2016. “Workplace Democracy and Civic Engagement in Vermont Food Cooperatives,” Working USA, The Journal of Labor and Society 19.2: 207-227
Teresa Mares, 2014. “Engaging Latino Immigrants in Seattle Food Activism,” In Food Activism: Agency, Democracy, and Economy, eds. Carole Counihan and Valeria Siniscalchi (New York: Bloomsbury Press), 31-46.
Minkoff-Zern, Laura-Anne. 2014. “Hunger Amidst Plenty: Farmworker Food Insecurity and Coping Strategies in California.” Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability. Special issue on Interstitial and Subversive Food Spaces. 19(2): 204-219.
Minkoff-Zern, Laura-Anne. 2014. “Knowing “Good Food”: Immigrant Knowledge and the Racial Politics of Farmworker Food Insecurity.” Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography. Special Edited Volume on Race, Space, and Nature. 46 (5): 1190-1204.
Minkoff-Zern, Laura-Anne. 2014 “Challenging the Agrarian Imaginary: Farmworker-Led Food Movements and the Potential for Farm Labor Justice.” Human Geography. 7 (1).
Teresa Mares, 2013. “’Here We Have the Food Bank’: Latino/a Immigration and the Contradictions of Emergency Food,” Food and Foodways 21.1: 1-21.
Alison Hope Alkon and Teresa Mares, 2012. “Food Sovereignty in US Food Movements: Radical Visions and Neoliberal Constraints,” Agriculture and Human Values 29.3: 347-359.