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V.A. Limeberry, PhD

Education

Doctorate, International Relations Fall 2023,

Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellow

Concentration: Global Environmental Politics

Dissertation: Agrobiodiversity in Resistance: Indigenous and Afro-Descendant Territorial Rights via Environmental and Agricultural Governance in the Americas

American University, School of International Service

 

Master of Arts in Liberal Studies, Gender and Diversity Studies,

Master of Public Administration, Economic Development and Planning

2014

Thesis: Eating in Opposition: Strategies of Resistance through Food in the Lives of Rural Andean and Appalachian Mountain Women (dc.etsu.edu/etd/2466)

East Tennessee State University 2014

Graduated summa cum laude, awarded outstanding thesis in ETSU Arts & Humanities, 2015.

 

Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Women’s Studies

Concentration: International Affairs

Graduated summa cum laude

East Tennessee State University 2010

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Awards & Honors

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  • National Science Foundation Social, Behavioral, Economic Sciences (NSF-SBE) Postdoctoral Fellow, 2024-2026

  • Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 2020-2021.

  • American Association of University Women, Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship. Accepted for reward, declined for Ford Fellowship, 2020

  • American Association of Geographers Dissertation Award, April 2020.

  • Award for Samuel L. Sharp Award for Creativity in Research at the Doctoral Level in International Relations. 2019. Awarded by American University School of International Service.

  • Emancipatory Rural Politics Initiative Accepted Participant in Global Dialogue at The Hague. Awarded by the International Institute of Social Studies and Journal of Peasant Studies. 2018.

  • US-NEHRU Fulbright Fellow Award for India, 2015-2016. Awarded by the Fulbright Program, United States India-Education Foundation, and the US Department of State.

  • Outstanding Master’s Thesis in Arts & Humanities, 2015. Awarded by ETSU.

  • Graduate Student Feminist Activist of the Year, 2015. Awarded by ETSU.

  • Hometown Heroes Award, 2014. Awarded by Appalachian Coal Country Team.

  • Patricia E. Robertson Leadership in Diversity Award, 2012. Awarded by ETSU.

  • Golden Key Honor Society. 2012. Awarded by ETSU.

  • Feminist Activist of the Year. 2012. Awarded by the Women’s Studies Program at ETSU.

  • James H. Quillen Honors Scholarship for Graduate Students. 2011-2013. Awarded by ETSU.

  • Iota, Iota, Iota Honor Society. 2008-present. Awarded by the Women’s Studies Program at ETSU.

  • Pi Sigma Alpha Honor Society. 2007-2011. Awarded by the Political Science Department at ETSU.

  • Faculty Award for Best Student in Political Science. 2010. Presented by the Political Science Department at ETSU.

  • Barbara Murphy Brooks Women’s Studies Scholarship. 2008-2010. Presented by the Women’s Studies Program at ETSU.

  • Clive W. and Esther W. Bare Endowed Scholarship for Political Science. 2007-2010. Presented by the Political Science Department at ETSU.

Recent Presentations

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  • Limeberry, V. (accepted, upcoming April 2024), “Caring Activist Scholars, Not Extractivist Scholars – What You Didn’t Learn in Graduate School: ISA Activists & Scholars Share What’s Gone Right and Wrong in Their Research with Community and Social Movements”. International Studies Association. San Francisco, CA.

  • Limeberry, V. (accepted, upcoming, April 2024), “Agrobiodiversity in Resistance: Indigenous and Afro-Descendant Territorial Rights via Environmental and Agricultural Governance in the Americas”, International Studies Assocation, San Francisco, CA.

  • Limeberry, V. moderator. February 2023. Featuring Rule, E., Rosser, E., Snape, W., Phillips, V. "Indigenous Sovereignties and Ecologies.” Center for Environment, Community, and Equity, American University, Washington DC.

  • Limeberry, V., Ayele Zikargie, Y., Abreha Desta, G. October 2022. "Doctoral Roundtable on Critical Agrarian Studies", Norwegian University of Life Sciences, As, Norway.

  • Limeberry, V., Tower, K., Jutasaike, G. September 2022. "Food, Land, and Identity: PhD Students Reflections on Research." Center for Environment, Community, and Equity, American University, Washington DC.

  • Limeberry, V., Carrol, C., Moreton-Robinson, A., Marin, K. Virtual, March 30, 2022 Indigenous Sovereignties: Unraveling Empire for Climate Justice. for Ethnographies of Empire Symposium, American University, DC.

  • Limeberry, V. 2022. Territory as Life: Indigenous and Afro-Descendant Cosmosvisions and Radical Praxis for Food Sovereignty. American Association of Geographers, Virtual, Feb 24-26.

  • Soni, D., Shekar-Singh, I., Limeberry, V., Graddy-Lovelace, G. 2021. Disparity to Parity to Solidarity: How Agrarian Movements Resist Corporate Capture in the “Capitalocene”. Critical Food Studies Conference, Virtual, South Africa.

  • Limeberry, V. 2021. Global Food Sovereignty, from Resilience to Reclamation. Invited two-part keynote with Vermont Humanities Council. October 6 and November 3.

  • Sharma, D., Singh, I., Jadhav, A., Limeberry, V., Soni, D., Varma, K., Varghese, S., Graddy-Lovelace, G. 2021. India Farmers Uprising: Tipping Point for International Ag Policy? American University, June 2.

  • Limeberry, V. 2021. Fast Violence, Slow Resistance: Territoriality, Land Rights, and Collective Identity for Agrobiodiversity Governance in the Americas. American Association of Geographers. April 8-12. Virtual.

  • Limeberry V. 2021. Can We Decolonize the LIO? The Resurgence of Indigenous Leadership Globally for Climate Change, Health Crises, and Environmental Justice. International Studies Association. April 7-11. Virtual.

  • Limeberry, V. Virtual, April 6, 2022. Ecofeminism, Race, and Coloniality: Movements for Environmental Justice. Invited lecture for Nature, Gender, Culture, taught by Dr. Jill Leroy-Frazier, East Tennessee State University

  • Limeberry, V. 2021. Fast Violence, Slow Resistance: Territoriality, Land Rights, and Collective Identity for Agrobiodiversity Governance in the Americas. American Association of Geographers. April 8-12. Virtual.

  • Limeberry V. 2021. Can We Decolonize the LIO? The Resurgence of Indigenous Leadership for Justice Globally. International Studies Association. April 7-11. Virtual.

  • Limeberry, V. 2020. Co-opting the rural: Regionalization as narrative in international populist authoritarian movement organizing in the United States and France. Emancipatory Rural Politics Initiative Round Table. American University, Washington DC (virtual). December 15.

  • Limeberry, V. 2020. The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Making the case for Indigenous Co-governance. Appalachian Public Interest and Environmental Law Conference. Knoxville, TN (virtual). September 26.

  • Limeberry, V. (2020). Race, Land, Borders: Old Territory as New Imaginary in Land Disputes Across the Americas. International Studies Association, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 25-28.

  • Limeberry, V. and Graddy-Lovelace, G. (2020). Panel: Emergent Agrobiodiversity Governance as Well-Being. American Association of Geographers, Denver CO, April 6-10.

  • Limeberry, V. (accepted for 2020). Femming the Farm? From Targeting Lady Farmers to Women-led Agrarian Justice. American Association of Geographers, Denver CO, April 6-10.

  • Limeberry, V. and Graddy-Lovelace, G. (2019). Dialogue As Data As Dialogue: Emancipatory Methodologies for the Rural Over-studied and Under-served. American Association of Geographers, Washington DC. April 3-8.

  • Limeberry, V. (2019). Bargaining for Sovereignty with ‘The Local’: The Rise of Subnational Authoritarian Enclaves and Hypernationalist Impacts on State Sovereignty in the US and France. International Studies Association, Toronto, CA. March 26-30.

  • Graddy-Lovelace, G. and Limeberry, V.A. (2018). Culture, Production, Policy, and Nutrition: A framework for identifying context-specific pathways for agrobiodiversity to support food security. Political Ecology Network Conference, Oslo, Norway. June 18-21

  • Limeberry, V. and Fox, J. (2018) Co-Opting the Rural: Regionalization as Narrative in International Populist Authoritarian Movement Organizing. Emancipatory Rural Politics Initiative Conference, The Hague, Netherlands. March 10-14.

  • Limeberry, V.A. and Fox, J. (2018). A New Polarity? The Rise of Hyper-nationalism, Transnational Nonstate Actors, and the Dissolution of State Sovereignty. International Studies Association. San Francisco, CA. April 4-7.

  • Limeberry, V.A. and Graddy-Lovelace, G. (2018). Femming the Farm? Gender Equity Rhetoric vs. Implementation. Department of Political Ecology Conference, Lexington, KY. February 23-25

Publications

Academic, Peer Review

  • Limeberry, V. (under review). “The Necropolitics of Food: Pandemics and Disposable Laborers".

  • Limeberry, V. and Graddy-Lovelace, G. 2023. “Data and the Seed: Democratizing Research for Emancipatory Policy and Agrobiodiversity Governance.” Droits & Cultures. https://journals.openedition.org/droitcultures/8896?lang=en

  • Limeberry, V. (Forthcoming). “Unto These Hills: Appalachian Cherokee Food Rights and the Limits of State Conservation” in Race in Rural America, edited by Carter, A., Robinson, K., Harvey, M., and Tanaka, K. The Rural Sociological Society, Rural Studies Series. UNC Press.

  • Auerbach, J., Munoz, S., Affiah, U., Barrera de la Torre, G., Borner, S., Cho, H., Cofield, R., DiEnno, C.M., Graddy-Lovelace, G., Klassen, S., Limeberry, V., Morse, A., Natarjan, L., Walsh, E. 2022. “Displacement of the Scholar? Participatory Action Research under COVID-19 and a Reimagining of University Support." Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2022.762065 

  • Auerbach, J., Munoz, S., Affiah, U., Barrera de la Torre, G., Borner, S., Cho, H., Cofield, R., DiEnno, C.M., Graddy-Lovelace, G., Klassen, S., Limeberry, V., Morse, A., Natarjan, L., Walsh, E. 2022. "Displacement of the Scholar II: Reimagining Institutional Support for PAR Post-COVID.” Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsufs.2022.916384/full

  • Limeberry, V. and Fox, J. 2021. “Co-Opting the Rural: Regionalization as Narrative in International Populist Authoritarian Movement Organizing.” Journal of Rural Studies. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2020.08.033

  • Limeberry, V. (2014). “Eating In Opposition: Strategies Of Resistance Through Food In The Lives Of Rural Andean And Appalachian Mountain Women.” Johnson City, TN: East Tennessee State University. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2466/

Editor, Academic Journals:

  • Limeberry, V., Montenegro, M., Keleman Saxena, A., Luna-Gonzalez, D., Cely-Santos, M., Graddy-Lovelace, G., Zimmerer, K. Editors, 2022-2023. Agrobiodiversity Nourishes Us/La Agrobiodiversidad Nos Nutre: Action Research for Agroecological Transformations. Special Issue for Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene. https://online.ucpress.edu/elementa/pages/agrobiodiversity_nourishes_us?

Social-Facing Publications

  • Limeberry, V. Forthcoming, 2024. “The Green Transition Illusion and Electric Vehicle Manufacturing in Appalachia and Beyond.” Mergoat Magazine, Issue 4.

  • Limeberry, V. 2022, November 19. "Illicit Crop Substitution, Agroecology, and Gustavo’s Path Forward in Colombia." Colombia Support Network. https://colombiasupport.net/2022/11/csn-newsletter-fall-2022/

  • Limeberry, V. March 2021. Mexico: Setting a “New Social Ethic” of Sustainability? AULA, American University Center for Latino and Latin American Studies Blog. https://aulablog.net/2021/03/31/mexico-setting-a-new-social-ethic-of-sustainability/

  • Limeberry, V. 2016. “Seeding Food, Farms, and Freedom: Veronica Limeberry Links India to Appalachia.” Interview by Marat Moore. Now & Then: The Appalachian Magazine 31.2. Winter: 47-50

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Peer-Reviewer:​

  • Journal of Rural Studies

  • Journal of Agrarian Change

  • Journal of Agriculture and Human Values

  • The Professional Geographer

  • International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy

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Courses Taught

  • Food: Security, Sovereignty, Sustainability; Anthropology and Sustainable Communities; Northern Arizona University, Spring 2024 (upper-level undergraduate, one section)

  • Global Public Health; American University National Student Leadership Council (NSLC); Summer 2018, 2019 (pre-college seminar, four sections each summer)

  • Political Ecology of Food (TA); American University School of International Service; Spring 2018, Spring 2019 (master's level graduate class, one section each spring)

  • Introduction to World Politics; American University School of International Service; Fall 2017, Spring 2018; Fall 2018 (introductory undergraduate level, 3 sections each semester)

  • Women in Global Agriculture; Navdanya Institute for Science, Technology, and Ecology; Fall 2015 (during Navdanya fall school on agroecology)

  • Introduction to Women's Studies; East Tennessee State University; Fall 2009, Spring 2010; (introductory undergraduate level, 2 sections each semester)

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Service

  • Doctoral Student Representative and Advocate to American University, 2021-2022

  • Organizer, Academics for Black Lives, Summer Faculty & Doctoral Student Workshop, 2020

  • Mentor and advocate, incoming doctoral students, 2019-2022

  • AmeriCorps VISTA (2014-2015), Martin Luther King Day Jr day of justice organizer, Johnson City TN, 2014/2015

  • Volunteer, Small Miracles Animal Therapy for Children with Disabilities, 2009-2013

  • Organizer, El Corazon Latino, 2012/2013/2014

  • Summer School for Children of Migrant Farmworkers (K-12), summers of 2011, 2012, 2013

  • Highlander Center STAY Youth Appalachian Program, 2007-2008

  • President, Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance at ETSU, 2007-2010

  • Vice President, Student Environmental Justice Coalition, 2008-2010

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Professional Associations

  • International Studies Association

  • American Association of Geographers

  • Latin American Studies Association

  • Mid-Atlantic Latin American Studies Association

  • Political Ecology Network

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Additional Certifications

  • Decolonizing Research Methods, certification of completion, Summer 2020, by El Cambalache Collective, Oaxaca Mexico

  • Agroecology Certification, awarded by Navdanya Institute for Technology, Ecology, and Science, Dehradun, India. 2015.

  • Nonviolent Communication and Mediation Certification by The Hummingbird Institute, Taos, New Mexico. 2013.

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