SARAH D.

HUANG
Department of Anthropology, Purdue University
700 West State Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907
Tel: (860) 912-8571
huang727@purdue.edu
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EDUCATION
In Progress Ph.D., Cultural Anthropology, Ecological Sciences and Engineering (Concentration),
Applied Anthropology (Concentration)
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

2016 M.S., Anthropology

Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

2014 B.A., Honors in Environmental Studies and Sociology, Magna Cum Laude
Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA

RESEARCH POSITIONS
2015-2016 Graduate Research Assistant, (co-PIs: Dr. Kimberly R. Marion Suiseeya, Northwestern
University and Dr. Laura Zanotti, Purdue University)
Department of Anthropology, Purdue University
From Presence to Influence: Examining the Politics of Indigenous Representation in
Global Environmental Governance

2014-2016 Graduate Research Assistant, (co-PIs: Dr. Laura Zanotti, Purdue University and Dr.
Courtney Carothers, University of Alaska Fairbanks)
Department of Anthropology, Purdue University
Collaborative Research: Gender, Environment, and Change: Exploring Shifting Roles in
an Iñupiat Community

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2014-2016 Master’s Research, (PI: Dr Laura Zanotti), Purdue University
Food, Identity, and Place: Conceptualizing food security with migrant populations in
Anchorage, AK

2014 Undergraduate Honors Thesis, (Advisors: Drs. Richard Wallace, Jonathon Clark, and
Rebecca Jaroff), Ursinus College
Pebble Mine: Framing of Salmon Denies Alaska Natives Justice

2013 Environmental Protection Agency Region 10

Office of Ecosystems, Tribal and Public Affairs, (Supervisor: Michelle V. Davis, EPA
Region 10 Tribal Coordinator), Anchorage, AK
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Tribal Climate Change Issues Presented by Program Office: Information to Support

Regional Planning Efforts

PUBLICATIONS
Forthcoming Huang, Sarah. “Food from Home and Food from Here: Disassembling Locality in Local
Food Systems with Refugees and Immigrants in Anchorage, Alaska.” in ed. Julian
Agyeman and Sydney Giacalone. Immigration, Immigrants, Agriculture and Food in
North America. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

2017 Huang, Sarah. Book Review of Food Security Governance: Empowering Communities,
Regulating Corporations, by Nora McKeon, Graduate Journal of Food Studies

REPORTS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Forthcoming Huang, Sarah. “Food Security and Local Food Networks in Immigrant and Refugee
Communities in Anchorage, Alaska.” Report to Alaska Food Policy Council.
Anchorage, AK.

2018 Huang, Sarah. “Growing Rice at a Cost in Vietnam’s Mekong River Delta”. Forage! Blog
of the Society of Ethnobiology. [https://ethnobiology.org/forage/blog/growing-rice-
cost-vietnams-mekong-river-delta]

2015-2016 Presence to Influence Project Blog at [http://www.presence2influence.org/blog]

Including, Navigating spaces at the World Conservation Congress (10/05/2016);
Making Visible, the planet at the crossroads (9/10/2016); Gender Mainstreaming our
way to equality (09/04/2016); 1.5 to stay alive, #blacklivesmatter (12/10/2015); When
are we going to seriously consider gender? (12/09/2015); False(?) Presentations of the
Inclusion and Recognition of Indigenous Peoples (12/03/2015); Indigenous
Recognition: The Bare Minimum (12/02/2015); The Politics of Performance:
Dramaturgy outside COP21 (11/30/2015); Reflections in Preparation for Paris, France
(11/26/2015)

2013 Huang, Sarah. 2013. “Tribal Climate Change Issues: Information to Support Regional
Planning Efforts” Internal Report to EPA Region 10. Seattle, WA.

FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS & GRANTS

External
2016-2018 U.S. Borlaug Fellowship in Global Food Security for Dissertation Research ($22,624)
2017 Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute (SEASSI) Scholarship ($5,500)
2016 U.S. Borlaug Summer Institute on Global Food Security Participant
2012-2014 United States Environmental Protection Agency Greater Research Opportunities
(GRO) Fellowship ($48,900)

Internal

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2016-2020 Purdue University Ross Fellowship ($60,000 + tuition)

2018-2019 Purdue College of Liberal Arts Purdue Research Fellowship ($20,000 + tuition)
2017 Purdue College of Liberal Arts Global Synergy Research Grant ($9,200)
2017 Purdue College of Liberal Arts PROMISE ($1,500)
2017 Purdue College of Liberal Arts PROMISE ($750)
2017 Anthropology Department Graduate Student Professional Travel Award, Purdue
University ($600)
2016 Purdue Climate Change Research Center Graduate Incentive Award ($4,000)
2016 Purdue Climate Change Research Center Travel Award ($750)
2016 Purdue College of Liberal Arts PROMISE (Promoting Research Opportunities to
Maximize Innovation and Scholarly Excellence Award) ($750)
2015 Purdue Graduate Student Government Travel Grant ($383)
2015-2016 Anthropology Department Graduate Student Professional Travel Award, Purdue
University ($400)
2014-2015 Frederick N. Andrews Environmental Travel Grant, Purdue University ($750)

INVITED TALKS
2018 “Food Security Governance in Vietnam”
Guest Lecture- Purdue University, Animal Sciences 495 “Food Security and
Environmental Changes”

2017 “Urban Agriculture: Anthropology in Anchorage, Alaska”

Guest Lecture- Purdue University, Sustainable Food Systems 312 “Urban Agriculture”

2016 “From Presence to Influence: How identity politics emerged at the Paris Climate
Summit”
Unitarian Universalist Church Social Justice Forum- West Lafayette, IN

2016 “Presence2influence: Examining the politics of indigenous representation in global

environmental governance”
Purdue College of Liberal Arts Lecture Series- West Lafayette, IN

2015 “Anthropological Study of Urban Agriculture in Anchorage, Alaska”

Guest Lecture- Purdue University, Sustainable Food Systems 312 “Urban Agriculture”

2015 “Edible Landscapes”

Guest Lecture- Purdue University, Political Science 429 “Health, Sustainability and the
Built Environment”

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2017 Huang, Sarah. “Urban Transnational Foodscapes: Exploring methodological
challenges and opportunities to engage immigrants and refugees in urban food

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programs.” Society for Applied Anthropology’s Trails, Traditions, and New Directions.
Santa Fe, NM

2017 Huang, Sarah. “Whose food security? The role of Vietnamese farmer livelihood
practices within shifting socio-political environments.” Purdue Center for the
Environment New Perspectives on Sustainability and Resilience. West Lafayette, IN

2016 Huang, Sarah. “Localizing the local food movement: Understanding transnational food
identities in the creation of local foodscapes in Anchorage, Alaska.” Society for
Applied Anthropology’s Intersections. Vancouver, BC, Canada

2016 Huang, Sarah with Drs. Laura Zanotti and Courtney Carothers, Charlene Apok,
Charlotte Ambrozek. “Grounded in place: Collaborative research experiences in
Barrow, Alaska.” International Conference of the European Network of Political
Ecology’s Undisciplined Environments. Stockholm, Sweden

2015 Huang, Sarah. “Food from Here: Understanding local food with immigrants in
Anchorage, Alaska.” Graduate Association for Food Studies Meeting. Cambridge, MA

2015 Huang, Sarah. “Food, Identity and Place: Conceptualizing food security with
immigrants in Anchorage, Alaska.” 3rd Annual Yale Food Systems Symposium. New
Haven, CT

UNIVERSITY SERVICE
2017 Founder of Purdue University Graduate Student Organization on Food Security
2016-2017 President of Purdue University Anthropology Graduate Student Association
2014- Member of Purdue University Anthropology Graduate Student Association
2014- Member of Purdue University Student Farm

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
2015- Reviewer for Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development
2015- Reviewer for the Graduate Journal of Food Studies

LEADERSHIP AND COMMUNITY SERVICE

2014- Purdue Student Farm Volunteer, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
2015 Citizenship Class Instructor, Alaska Literacy Program, Anchorage, AK
2015 Volunteer, University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension, Anchorage, AK
2013-2014 Real Food Challenge Campus Coordinator, Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA
2013 Ecological Restoration Project Partner, Collegeville, PA
2012-2014 Longview Center for Agriculture Volunteer, Collegeville, PA
2012 World Associates Intern, Aqaba, Jordan
2011-2014 Sustainability Fellow, Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA
2011-2013 Take Back the Tap Campus Coordinator, Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA

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2010-2014 Urban Tree Connection Volunteer, Philadelphia, PA

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

Feminist Political Ecology, Environmental Justice, Food Anthropology, Global Food Security,
Agrarian Livelihoods, Food Justice

NEWS
Twitter: @Pres2Influence and @huang_sd
Discussed research on KBRW, Barrow, Alaska. Radio Interview. June 10, 2014.
Featured in “Two Weeks in Vietnam” Purdue Climate Change Research Center Annual Report. 2016.
Featured in Wallheimer, Dorothy. “Battling Climate Change” THiNK. April 2016.

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Society for Applied Anthropology
American Association of Geographers
Graduate Association of Food Studies
Whitians Women’s Honor Society
Alpha Kappa Delta International Sociology Honor Society

LANGUAGES
Vietnamese (Beginner); Arabic (Beginner); Spanish (Intermediate)

SKILLS
Atlas.ti; NVivo; ESRI ArcGIS; SPSS; R; Trello; Microsoft Office Suite

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