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Valentine Cadieux serves as Associate Professor of Anthropology at Hamline University and Director of the Center for Justice and Law, with additional affiliation to the Environmental and Climate Studies program. She actively collaborates with the Sustainability Office and Food and Society Workshop.
Her educational background includes:
- PhD and MA in Geography from University of Toronto
- AB in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges
Professor Cadieux's research examines collaborative knowledge practices in food, agriculture, and land systems within settler societies across Canada, the United States, and Aotearoa New Zealand. Her work centers on three interconnected themes: food system governance dialogues where diverse stakeholders negotiate frameworks; urban green infrastructure and soil dynamics in food production; and embodied sustainability practices as social negotiation. She employs participatory fieldwork methods that center marginalized knowledge systems, treating campuses as living laboratories for studying material flows in food systems.
She leads the FoodShed initiative—a collaborative online workshop and field guide for food movements—alongside the Eating Together podcast (foodfieldguides.com). Her teaching philosophy emphasizes experiential learning through community-engaged projects where students develop real-world solutions for food system challenges.
As an educator, Cadieux mentors students through field-based collaborations with community partners, designing courses that transform classrooms into base camps for investigating how policy, activism, and material practices shape our socio-ecological environments. Her approach equips learners with analytical tools to critically examine their relationships to food systems and environmental justice.
