Dr. Liza Grandia

Grandia

Professor and Department Chair

Office Hours
My office is 2419 Hart Hall, but I am mostly working from my home office, due to immune vulnerabilities to the continued Covid pandemic

Virtual student hours, 4-6 pm on Thursdays, by phone or Zoom
Sign up for an appointment on Calendly here: https://calendly.com/lizagrandia/grandia-virtual-hours-fall-2024-1?month=2024-10

Contact:

  • Office:  2419 Hart Hall, please be fragrance free when you visit
  • Tel: 530-752-0357, Fax: 530-752-7097​
  • Email: lgrandia@ucdavis.edu
  • Skype: lizagrandia
  • Student hours, via telephone: sign up here via Calendly, Thursdays, 4-7 pm 

Education:

B.A. summa cum laude, Yale University, 1996
Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, 2006
Postdoc in the Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University, 2006-07

Research interests:

Q'eqchi' Maya; Belize & Guatemala; food sovereignty; peasants, and agrarian change; pesticides; Indigenous social movements, international environmental justice; toxics in everyday life; corporate trade and globalization; foreign aid and empire; biodiversity conservation; political ecology; the politics of cancer; and theories of the commons.

DOWNLOAD her CV (updated July 2024)

UC Davis affiliations:

  • Director of the Indigenous Research Center of the Americas (IRCA)
  • Affiliated with: Community and Regional Development (CRD), International Agricultural Development (IAD), Hemispheric Institute of the Americas (HIA), and Human Rights Studies (link), Geography Graduate Group (GGG)

Courses Taught (with syllabi and Facebook groups)

To download publications and learn more about her work go to:  https://grandia.faculty.ucdavis.edu

 

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