Marit Rosol

Marit Rosol is a Professor of Economic Geography at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (since 2022) and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Calgary's Department of Geography (since 2022). She holds a Canada Research Chair (2016-2022) and has earned international recognition for her work on alternative food networks, urban governance, and critical political ecology.

• Education: Habilitation in Geography (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, 2012), PhD in Geography (Humboldt-Universität Berlin, 2006), Dipl.-Ing. in Urban & Regional Planning (TU Berlin, 2001)

Her research focuses on Critical Food Studies, exploring alternative economies in urban agriculture, post-political urban governance, and transformative food systems. She examines tensions between environmental and social justice in food initiatives, state-led gentrification, and participatory urban planning frameworks.

Recent publications analyze:

• Urban-rural food system transformations
• Smart city justice frameworks
• Commons-based land access models
• Anthropocene food challenges

Scientific awards include:

• Senior Fellow, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (2022)
• Canada Research Chair Tier II (2016-2022)
• 2015 RIBA President's Award for Outstanding Urban Agriculture Research

She has supervised:

• PhD students: Hanna Augustin
• Master students: Natalie Bakko, Abby Landon, Ricardo Barbosa Jr.
• Postdocs: Dr. Rebecca Laycock Pedersen, Dr. Charlotte Spring, Dr. Lauren Kepkiewicz

Major grants from SSHRC, Hans-Böckler Foundation, and DAAD have supported her work on food insecurity linkages, urban food justice, and global comparative studies of food systems.

She co-founded the Food Studies Interdisciplinary Research Group at the University of Calgary and serves on editorial boards for Canadian Food Studies and sub\urban.