Elizabeth Finnis

My research addresses the politics, economics, and cultures of smaller-scale farming and local food systems. Geographically, I am interested in Canada, India, and Paraguay, and I use a political ecology lens to to examine food, diet, agricultural transitions, and food sovereignty.

My current research examines food production, local food systems, and smaller-scale farming in Parry Sound District, Ontario; some of my other recent research includes working with small-scale farmers on issues of food sovereignty, agriculture, and social/physical environmental change in rural Paraguay.

I am interested in supervising graduate students with research interests in medical anthropology, nutritional anthropology, agriculture, food systems, resource issues, rural livelihoods, and gender.

Keywords: agricultural and dietary transitions, local food systems, food sovereignty, political ecology

Finnis, Elizabeth, Veronica Fursova, and Jessica Gordon. 2024. Qualitative Insights into Antimicrobial Use on Cow-Calf Operations in Ontario, The Canadian Journal of Animal Sciences .https://doi.org/10.1139/cjas-2024-0019

Finnis, Elizabeth, Raquel Archie, Sydney Margarit, Autum Perry, Karine Gagne, Travis Steffens, Jess Auerbach, and Tad McIlwraith. 2023. Multi-Course and Faculty-Student Collaboration: Reflections on Implementing a Qualitative Research Project with Undergraduate Students, Teaching Anthropology, Volume 12, Issue 2, 14-26. https://www.teachinganthropology.org/ojs/index.php/teach_anth/article/view/674

Neufeld, Hannah Tait and Elizabeth Finnis, eds. 2022. Recipes and Reciprocity: Building Relationships in Research. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press. https://uofmpress.ca/books/detail/recipes-and-reciprocity

Travis, Steffens, and Elizabeth Finnis. 2022. Context matters: Leveraging anthropology within one health, One Health, Volume 14, Issue June 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.onehlt.2022.100393

Finnis, Elizabeth. 2021. Agricultural Persistence and Potentials on the Edge of Northern Ontario. Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment 43(1):60-70. https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cuag.12269

Finnis, Elizabeth, Sofie Lachapelle, and T. Ryan Gregory. 2021. A university course on pandemics: What we learned when 80 experts, 300 alumni and 600 students showed up. The Conversation June 7. https://theconversation.com/a-university-course-on-pandemics-what-we-learned-when-80-experts-300-alumni-and-600-students-showed-up-156277

Finnis, Elizabeth. 2017. Collective Action, Envisioning the Future and Women's Self-help Groups: A case study from India. Indian Journal of Gender Studies 24(1):1-23.

Finnis, Elizabeth, Clotilde Benitez, Estela Fatima Candia Romero and Maria Jose Aparicio Meza. 2013. Agricultural and dietary meanings of mandioca in rural Paraguay. Food and Foodways 21(3):163-185.

Finnis, Elizabeth, Clotilde Benitez, Estela Fatima Candia Romero and Maria Jose Aparicio Meza. 2012. Changes to Agricultural Decision-making and Food Procurement in Rural Paraguay. Latin American Research Review 47(2):180-190.

Finnis, Elizabeth, ed. 2012. Reimagining Marginalized Foods: Global Processes, Local Places. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.