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Elizabeth Finnis

Elizabeth Finnis

Professor and Director, One Health Institute

College of Social and Applied Human Sciences, Guelph Institute of Development Studies, Department of Sociology and Anthropology

efinnis@uoguelph.ca

Research Areas

  • Food security
  • Food systems
  • Qualitative methods
  • Agriculture and Food
  • Political ecology
  • One Health
  • Medical anthropology
  • Agriculture
  • Dietary transitions
  • Food sovereignty

About

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 draw on political ecology, one health approaches, and qualitative methods to examine issues around food, diet, agricultural transitions, and food sovereignty.

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

Some research keywords: food sovereignty, political ecology, one health, medical anthropology, rural livelihoods, agricultural and dietary transitions, food security, qualitative methods.

Some Recent Publications

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