Hello there.
I am currently the Managing Director of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life. IA is a national organization that uplifts the arts, humanities, and design in community based work within and beyond higher education. IA is committed to bringing people together in critical yet hopeful spaces to imagine better ways of living, learning, and working together. From 2018-22, I was the Program Manager for Mellon Public Scholars at the UC Davis Humanities Institute. In this role, I promoted the transformative power of the arts and humanities and helped shape the future of graduate-level humanistic research to be collaborative, impactful, and community-engaged. As a feminist food studies and science & technology studies scholar, my research analyses how the science of the human microbiome shapes how we engage with our multi-species bodies and the bodies of others: like this article on Sandor Katz's queer fermentive praxis, this article on why fecal microbiota transplants reenact colonialist extraction practices, and this article on how dietary advice for the microbiome reaffirms individualistic, healthist ideologies. In 2018, I received my Ph.D. in Cultural Studies with a Designated Emphasis in Feminist Theory and Research at the University of California, Davis. I belong to these ongoing research/making collectives, with several sub-projects: The Hyphae Collective: an interdisciplinary group of artists, scientists, humanists, performers, storytellers, and practitioners exploring radical futures with fungi. Some of our projects include:
Radical and Relational Approaches to Fermentation and Food Sovereignty: a research co-lab with a fermented foods scientist, Inuk microbial ecologist, and Native American Studies performance scholar. Projects include:
Reach out if you are interested in creating a community-engaged humanistic research project, transforming graduate training in the humanities, or if you want to chat about fermentation, microbiomes, or mushrooms. Email me at srmaroney [at] ucdavis.edu. Visit microbiosocial.wordpress.com for more details on my work -- or email me at communityferment [at] gmail.com for questions about my ongoing free fermentation workshop, Building Community Ferment. |
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