Chicken Conference Participants


Dr. Jane Adams: Professor, Anthropology and History, Southern Illinois University; http://www.siu.edu/~anthro/adams/
Dr. Paul Aho: Economist, Poultry Perspectives, and consultant to poultry industry, Storrs, CT; http://www.asasea.com/technical/po39-1998.html
Dr. Michael Appleby: Vice President for Farm Animals and Sustainable Agriculture, Humane Society of the United States; http://www.hsus.org
Christopher Bedford: Farm Animals and Sustainable Agriculture Campaign Coordinator, Humane Society of the United States; http://www.hsus.org; http://maryland.sierraclub.org
Dr. Donald Bixby: Executive Director, American Livestock Breeds Conservancy, Pittsboro, NC; http://www.albc-usa.org/
Stephanie Black: Independent filmmaker; http://www.lifeanddebt.org
Dr. Kelly Brownell: Professor, Psychology, Yale School of Epidemiology and Public Health; Director, Yale Center for Eating and Weight Disorders; http://www.yale.edu/psychology/FacInfo/Brownell.html
Dr. David Burch: Director, Science Policy Centre, Griffith University, Australia; http://www.gu.edu.au/school/sce/staff_burch.html
Dr. JoAnn Burkholder: Professor, Botany; Director, Center for Applied Aquatic Ecology, North Carolina State University; http://www.annonline.com/interviews/971002/biography.html; http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/botany/faculty/jburkholder/jburkholder.html
Amy Chapin: MPH, Ph.D. Candidate, Environmental Health Sciences, The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
Cedric Chatterley: Photographer; co-author of “I Was Content and Not Content”: The Story of Linda Lord and the Closing of Penobscot Poultry; http://www.uvsc.edu/relations/releases/22feb01b.html
Dr. Kamari Maxine Clarke: Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Yale University; http://pantheon.yale.edu/~mkc32/
Mary Clouse: Director, Contract Agriculture/Poultry Project, RAFI-US; http://www.rafiusa.org/contractag/contractag.html; http://www.ruralwomyn.net/sharecrop.html
Dr. Mark Cullen: Director, Occupational and Environmental Medicine Program, Yale University; http://info.med.yale.edu/intmed/occmed/cullen.html
Dr. Michael J. Darre: Professor, Poultry Science and Extension and Poultry Specialist,; Department of Animal Science, University of Connecticut; http://www.canr.uconn.edu/ansci/faculty/mjd.htm
Dr. Deborah Davis: Yale Center for the Study of Globalization; http://www.yale.edu/socdept/aboutfaculty.html
Dr. Karen Davis: President, United Poultry Concerns; http://www.upc-online.org
Dr. Michael Dove: Professor, Social Ecology, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University; http://www.yale.edu/forestry/bios/dove.html
Steven Etka: Coordinator, Campaign for Contract Agriculture Reform; http://www.web-span.com/pga/news/contractreform.html; http://www.rafiusa.org/actionalert/contractag/fact1.html
Dr. Robert Evenson: Professor, Economics, Yale University; http://www.econ.yale.edu/faculty1/evenson.htm
Dr. Deborah Fink: Independent Anthropologist, Iowa
Dr. Leon Fink: Professor, History, University of Illinois-Chicago.; Director, Work, Race, and Gender in the Urban World; http://www.uic.edu/depts/hist/
Chris Foster: Assistant to the Director of the Food Processing and Manufacturing; Division, United Food and Commercial Workers; http://www.ufcw.org/who/internal.cfm?subsection_id=3&internal_id=16; http://www.ufcw.org
Dr. Paul Freedman: Professor, History, Yale University; http://www.yale.edu/medieval/faculty/freedman.html
Dr. Glenda Gilmore: Professor, History, Yale University; http://www.yale.edu/history/aboutfaculty.html
Stephen Green-Armytage: Photographer; author, Extraordinary Chickens.; http://www.abramsbooks.com/books/ExtraordinaryChickens.html
Dr. David Griffith: Senior Scientist and Professor, Anthropology, Institute for Coastal and Marine Resources and Department of Anthropology, East Carolina University; http://www.ecu.edu/anth/faculty.htm
Dr. Cindy Hahamovitch: Associate Professor, History; Director of Graduate Studies College of William and Mary; http://www.wm.edu/history/cxhaha.html
Nicolette Hahn, Esq.: Attorney; sustainable agriculture consultant
Patrick Harmon: Chicken catcher; former processing plant line worker, Delmarva Poultry Justice Alliance; http://www.dpja.org
Dr. William Heffernan: Professor, Rural Sociology, University of Missouri; http://www.ssu.missouri.edu/ruralsoc/; http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_394000/394301.stm
Noel Honeyborne: Founder, Fowls for Africa; http://www.arc.agric.za/institutes/aii/main/divisions/animalbreedgen/resourcepoor/fowls/fowlsfa.htm
Dr. Roger Horowitz: Associate Director, Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society, Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, DE; Department of History, University of Delaware; http://www.monthlyreview.org/meatpack.htm; http://www.press.uillinois.edu/s97/horowitz.html
Dr. Yen C. Hsieh: Research Fellow, Proctor and Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH
Dr. Wesley Jamison: Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary, and Global Programs;; Director - Switzerland Center, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA; http://www.wpi.edu/Pubs/Faculty/wvj.html
Dr. Lu Ann Jones: Assistant Professor, History, East Carolina University; http://www.ecu.edu/history/frames/Faculty/Jones.htm
Linnea Johnson: Poultry farmer; independent poet
Barry Koffler: Founder, feathersite.com; http://www.feathersite.com
Dr. Susan Levine: Professor, History, University of Illinois at Chicago; http://www.uic.edu/depts/hist/
Rev. Jim Lewis: Episcopal priest; founding member of the Delmarva Poultry Justice Alliance, Pocomoke City, MD; http://www.dpja.org
Richard Lobb: Director of Communications, National Chicken Council, Washington, DC; http://www.eatchicken.com
Linda Lord: Former Penobscot poultry plant worker, Belfast, ME; http://www.ibiblio.org/extimacy/interview/alicia/
Dr. Eriberto P. Lozada Jr.: Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Davidson College; http://blue.butler.edu/~elozada/
M. Kay Mansfield: Coordinator, Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University
Pamela Marshall: Farmer, Seldom Seen Farm, Amenia, NY; http://www.heall.com/resource/food/new_york.htm
Maria Martinez: Former processing plant line worker; shop steward; organizer, United Food and Commercial Workers Local 27, Selbyville, DE; http://www.cta-usa.org/news4-00/mariamartinex.html; http://www.ufcw.org; http://www.ufcw.org/home/internal.cfm?subsection_id=134&internal_id=134
Pamela McElwee: Doctoral student, Anthropology and School of Forestry; and Environmental Studies, Yale University; Chicken Conference Coordinator
Dr. Suzanne Millman: Director, Scientific Programs, Farm Animals, and Sustainable Agriculture, Humane Society of the United States; http://www.hsus.org
Carole Morison: Chicken grower and Executive Director, Delmarva Poultry Justice Alliance, Pocomoke City, MD; http://www.dpja.org
David Moskowitz, Esq.: Attorney, Moskowitz and Carraway P.C., Atlanta, GA; http://www.lawguru.com/cgi/bbs/attyPages/LSchrage.html
Marla Naidoo: Lecturer, University of Zululand, South Africa
Dr. Marion Nestle: Professor and Chair, Nutrition and Food Studies, New York University; http://www.nyu.edu/education/nutrition/AOD/faculty_and_staff/nestle.htm
Lamin Nyangado: Action Aid Gambia; http://www.actionaid.org
Wayne Pacelle: Senior Vice President, Humane Society of the United States; http://www.hsus.org; http://www.vegan.com/issues/1998/oct98/pacelle.htm
Timothy Pachirat: Doctoral Student, Political Science, Yale University
Dr. Gunther Peck: Professor, History, University of Texas, Austin
Michael Pollan: Independent author; contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine
Dr. Linda-Anne Rebhun: Associate Professor, Anthropology, Yale University; http://pantheon.yale.edu/~larebhun/; Chicken Conference Organizer
Mark Ritchie: President, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, Minneapolis, MN; http://www.iatp.org
Dr. Alicia Rouverol: Independent folklorist; co-author of “I Was Content and Not Content”: The Story of Linda Lord and the Closing of Penobscot Poultry; http://www.sohp.org/scholarship/rouverol/
Dr. Boria Sax: Coordinator, Online Academic Assistance, Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, NY; http://www.mercy.edu/merlin/visitor/profiles/bsax.htm
Dr. James Scott: Sterling Professor, Political Science and Anthropology; Director, Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University; http://www.yale.edu/isps/faculty/Scott.html; Chicken Conference Organizer
Chuck Shipley, Esq.: Attorney, Shipley, Jennings, and Champlin, P.C., Tulsa, OK
Michael Shuman: Chief Program Officer for the Village Foundation in Alexandria, VA; President, Bay Friendly Chicken; http://www.schumachersociety.org/shuman.html; http://www.chesfriendlychicken.com/cfcendorsers.htm
Dr. Ellen Silbergeld: Professor, Environmental Health Sciences, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; http://www.jhu.edu/~jhumag/0400web/24.html
Dr. Susan Sperling: Professor, Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine, University of California, San Francisco; http://www.ucsf.edu/dahsm/pages/facinterests.html
Dr. Stephen Striffler: Assistant Professor, Anthropology, University of Arkansas; http://www.uark.edu:80/depts/lastinfo/steve.htm
Dr. Donald Stull: Professor, Anthropology, University of Kansas; http://www.kansaspress.ku.edu/stuany.html; http://www.cc.ku.edu/~kuanth/index.html
Michael Stumo, Esq.: General Counsel, Organization for Competitive Markets; http://www.competitivemarkets.com/
Mary Summers: Senior Fellow, Fox Leadership Program and Center for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society; lecturer, Political Science, University of Pennsylvania; Chicken Conference Organizer
Rosa Sutton: President, Helping Hands, Siler City, NC; http://www.grass-roots.org/usa/helphand.shtml
Eric Tabor: Chief of Staff, Iowa Attorney General’s Office; http://www.state.ia.us/government/ag/working_for_farmers/index.html
Dr. Sylvia Tesh: Lecturer, Political Science, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and Law School, Yale University; Chicken Conference Organizer
Dr. Kendall Thu: Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Northern Illinois University; http://www3.niu.edu/acad/anthro/thu.htm
Renske van Staveren,: Researcher; Consultant, Philadelphia Fair Food Project;; University of Pennsylvania's Urban Nutrition Initiative; "Politics of Food" seminar and speakers' series; Chicken Conference Coordinator
Dr. Polly Walker: Associate Director for Programs, Center for a Livable Future, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; http://www.jhsph.edu/environment/
Dr. James Watson: Professor, Social Anthropology, Harvard University; http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/anthro/
Dr. Michael Watts: Director, Institute of International Studies, Professor of Geography, University of California at Berkeley; http://geography.berkeley.edu/PeopleHistory/faculty/M_Watts.html
Dr. William Weida: Professor, Economics and Business, Colorado College; Director, Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE) Factory Farm Project.; http://www.coloradocollege.edu/Dept/EC/Faculty/Weida.html; http://www.factoryfarm.org/poultry.html
Dr. Randall Westgren: Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural, and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; http://www.ace.uiuc.edu/Faculty/westgren.asp; http://www.aces.uiuc.edu/~asap/news/v8n3/new-poultry.html
Elizabeth Wheeler: Program Development and Public Education Director, Hartford Food Systems; http://www.hartfordfood.org/
Gavin Hamilton Whitelaw: Doctoral student, Anthropology, Yale University; Chicken Conference Coordinator
Dr. Heather Williams: Assistant Professor, Politics, Pomona College; http://bryson.pomona.edu/4d.acgi$ViewFacultyMember423
Richard Wood: Executive Director, Food Animals Concern Trust; http://www.fact.cc/
Dr. Eric Worby: Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Yale University; http://www.yale.edu/anthro/people/faculty/eworby.html