Greta Marchesi
Graduate Student
BA 1997 (History/Literature) Reed College; MA 2006 (American Studies) University of New Mexico
I'm interested in the colonizing function of agricultural development in the twentieth century, both domestically in Native American communities and internationally as an extension of U.S. foreign policy. I'm also curious about the ways that colonizing strategies employed against Native tribes in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries shaped programs of American empire abroad. My previous research has focused on the World War II-era Navajo De-Stocking Program, in particular the economic and cultural impacts of state-imposed changes in range management. My doctoral work looks more closely at the pedagogical apparatus of agricultural education in international contexts, considering the local implications of agricultural scientists' global assumptions about productivity, gender, and the natural world.
Personal interests
Arts-based social activism, community education, public schooling, the relationship between rural and urban poverty and political interests, food security, acequias, vermiculture, the bicycle revolution, goat cheeses, the Soho Crime series, book arts, Fluxus International, etching, mail art, and good, cheap food.
