Mindy Jewell Price

As a political ecologist and human geographer, my research examines the intersections of critical food and agrarian studies, Indigenous environmental studies, and polar geography. My current project examines how the Northwest Territories, Canada, has emerged as both an imaginative and material frontier for agriculture, and how rural and Indigenous communities negotiate their relationships with land and the state amid shifting climatic and agrarian conditions. More broadly, my research and teaching advance food justice through a focus on land sovereignty, gender equity, and ecologically sustainable practices. I collaborate closely with communities and practitioners in community-engaged ethnographic and archival research.

EDUCATION

• Postdoc Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, 2024-5
• PhD Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, UC Berkeley, 2024
• MPH Global Health, University of South Florida, 2016
• BA Sociology, Emory University, 2013

COURSES

ENVI 238: Food Justice and Sustainability

ENVI 219: Environmental Health and Development

ENVI 217: Political Ecology of Natural Resources

ENVI 194: The Movement of Agroecology

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Price, M. J. (2025). Arctic Agrarian Futures? A Political Ecology of Climate Change in the Northwest Territories, Canada. Geoforum, 167, 104462. doi: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104462.

Steen, M., & Hutchins, L., Wilson, C., Sigona, A., Taylor, A. & Price, M. J. (2025). It’s time to reclaim our lands and data: Steps for ethically engaged environmental research with Indigenous communities. Environmental Justice, 18, 4. doi: 10.1089/env.2023.0060.

Price, M. J. &Hall, A.(2024). Situating reproduction: How becoming mothers shapes fieldwork and why it matters. The Professional Geographer, 7, 5: 675-682. doi: 10.1080/00330124.2024.2351842.

Jones, M. W., Habeckm J. O., Ulrich, M., Crate, S., Gannon, G., Schwoerer, T., Jones, B., Kanevskiy, M., Baral, P., Maharjan, A., Steiner, J., Spring, A., Price, M. J., Bysouth, D., Forbes, B., Verdonen, M., Kumpula, T., Strauss, J., Windirsch, T., Poeplau, C., Shur, Y., Gaglioti, B., Parlato, N., Tao, F., Turetsky, M., Grand, S., Unc, A. & Borchard, N. (2024). Socio-ecological dynamics of diverse global permafrost agroecosystems under environmental change. Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research, 56, 1. doi: 10.1080/15230430.2024.2356067.

Price, M. J. (2023). Seeing green: Lifecycles of an Arctic agricultural frontier. Rural Sociology, 88(4): 941-971. doi: 10.1111/ruso.12506

Price, M. J., Latta, A., Spring, A., Temmer, J., Johnston, C., Chicot, L., Jumbo, J., & Leishman, M. (2022). Agroecology in the North: Centering Indigenous food sovereignty and land stewardship in agriculture “frontiers.” Agriculture and Human Values, 39, 1191-1206. doi: 10.1007/s10460-022-01312-7.

Peterson-Rockney, M., Baur, P., Guzman, A., Bender, S. F., Calo, A., Castillo, F., De Master, K., Dumont, A., Esquivel, K., Kremen, C., La Chance, J., Mooshammer, M., Ory, J., Price, M. J., Socolar, Y., Stanley, P., Iles, A., & Bowles, T. (2021). Narrow and brittle or broad and robust? Comparing adaptive capacity in simplifying and diversifying farming systems. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2021.564900.