Dr. Medina is Academic Director of Food Systems, Culture and Society. His main fields of research include: anthropology of food, food and wine tourism and social and ethnic identities. He has undertaken fieldwork in Spain (Basque Country, Catalonia), Hungary (Budapest, Tokaj), Argentina & Zimbabwe (Matabeleland) and has edited and authored several books on Food Studies. In 2005 he received the Gourmand Books Awards, (Special award of the Jury). He is currently President of ICAF-Europe, European Section of the International Commission of Anthropology of Food (ICAF).
Teaching staff
Jessica Duncan
Jessica Duncan coordinates the Master’s programme in Food, Society and International Food Governance in the Department of Food Systems, Culture and Society. Her research interests include public participation in global agri-food governance and farm-level consequences of agri-food policies. She has worked in community capacity building, rural development, youth engagement and with various food and agriculture organizations. She has published on participation in global agri-food governance and on the politics of food.
Dario Bevilacqua
Dr. Dario Bevilacqua holds a Doctorate in Administrative Law from the Faculty of Law at the University of Rome. His doctoral research focussed on food safety regulation in global and European law. He has worked as an external consultant for the FAO and acted as project manager for the Consortium des Universités Euro-Méditerranéennes et des Pays du Sud.
Ken Hatt
Dr. Hatt’s research has revolved around studies of reform, resistance and other responses to Canadian state hegemony in three waves of capitalism. Ken Hatt currently coordinates undergraduate and graduate courses at the University of Victoria (Canada) on Environmental Overload, Sustainability, and Ecological Integrity; Trade Liberalization and Food Governance; Small, Local, Organic Farming in a Neoliberal Era, and; Complexity, Complex Systems and Sociology.
William Meyers
William H. Meyers is Co-Director, FAPRI and Professor of Agricultural Economics, University of Missouri-Columbia since 2003. He holds a PhD in agricultural economics, University of Minnesota and MS, University of the Philippines, Los Banos. He was Professor of Economics at Iowa State University, 1979-2003 and Director, Agriculture and Economic Development Division of the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations from July 1999 to July 2002, while on leave from ISU. He was Interim Director of the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development 1996 to 1998 and Co-Director of the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute at Iowa State University from 1984 to 1998. He has directed development projects in Ukraine, Hungary, Indonesia, Zambia, Jamaica, and Honduras and worked on agricultural and rural policy studies in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. Dr. Meyers has authored numerous publications on trade and agricultural policy, commodity market analysis, and transition economics.
Cinzia Scaffidi
Cinzia Scaffidi is Director of the Slow Food Study Center and responsible for International Relations at the University of Gastronomic Sciences of Pollenzo and Colorno where she teaches “Interdisciplinarity of Gastronomy”. Her latest publications include Guarda Che Mare (Slow Food Editore, 2007) written with marine biologist Silvio Greco and Sementi e Diritti (Slow Food Editore, 2008) with Stefano Masini.
Aysen Tanyeri-Abur
Dr. Aysen Tanyeri-Abur currently teaches in the Department of Economics at Northeastern University (Boston, USA). She is also an Adjunct Professor in the Food Studies and Gastronomy program at Boston University's Metropolitan College. Until 2007, she was with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the UN in Rome, where she worked as an Economist in the Economic and Social Analysis Division and as Senior Officer for private sector partnerships. Her research has primarily focused on modelling and analysis of food and agriculture policies and she has worked in several countries including the US, Mexico, Tanzania, Mali, Ecuador and Turkey. She holds a PhD in Agricultural Economics from Texas A&M university and an MA in Economics from Ohio State University.
