Due to social distancing, the Book Talk with Elizabeth Hoover, PhD will be presented virtually on Wednesday,  March 18th. It will be shared via our website, e-blast and social media. Stay healthy and enjoy the presentation from home!

Book Talk with Elizabeth Hoover, PhD

Elizabeth Hoover is Associate Professor of American Studies at Brown University where she also serves as the Faculty Chair of Brown's Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative steering committee. Elizabeth is descended from Mohawk and Mi'kmaq communities and focuses most of her work on food and environmental justice for Native communities. Her first book The River is In Us: Fighting Toxics in a Mohawk Community, (University of Minnesota Press, 2107) is an ethnographic exploration of Akwesasne Mohawks' response to Superfund contamination and environmental health research.  Her second book project-in-progress From Garden Warriors to Good Seeds; Indigenizing the Local Food Movement explores Native American community based farming and gardening projects; the ways in which people are defining and enacting concepts like food sovereignty and seed sovereignty; the role of Native chefs in the food movement; and the fight against the fossil fuel industry to protect heritage foods. She also recently co-edited a book Indigenous Food Sovereignty in the United States with Devon Mihesuah (University of Oklahoma Press, 2019). Elizabeth has published articles about Native American food sovereignty and seed rematriation; environmental reproductive justice in Native American communities; and tribal citizen science and community based participatory research.