Sarah Rotz

Sarah Rotz is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change (EUC) at York University, where she teaches courses like Land & Food and Interdisciplinary Social Inquiry. Her work bridges Environmental Justice, Political Ecology, and Decolonial Methodologies.

Research Themes include:

• Settler colonial impacts on land tenure and food sovereignty
• Critical analysis of digital agricultural technologies
• Financialization of farmland and food systems
• Feminist and Indigenous research ethics
• Climate justice movements

Recent Publications analyze corporate control of farmland data, Indigenous-settler solidarity in food movements, and the intersection of digitalization, financialization, and land concentration in Canadian agriculture. She co-edited a book Uncertain Harvest: The Future of Food on a Warming Planet.

Awards include:

• SSHRC Insight Development Grant
• Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship
• Richard Barham Graduate Medal

As co-founder of the RAIR Collective, she promotes Indigenous-led land rematriation and food sovereignty. She also co-chairs York’s Climate Emergency Committee, organizing talks on climate justice and energy sovereignty.