Amy Guptill: SUNY Brockport

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Amy Guptill , Ph.D

(She/Her/Hers)

Professor (Sociology) and Chair (Mathematics): (585) 395-5657
aguptill@brockport.edu
Office: Hartwell Hall 203 B

Education

PhD, Development Sociology, Cornell University
MS, Development Sociology, Cornell University
BA magna cum laude, Sociology, University of Vermont

Areas of Specialty

Food systems
Community and rural development

Courses Taught

Introduction to Sociology
Social Statistics
Sociology of Food
Community and Social Change
Development and Globalization
Sociology of Disaster
Delta Orientation (Delta College)
Society & Culture (Delta College)
Global Development (Delta College)
Interdisciplinary Seminar: Technology & Society (Delta College)

Research Interests

I study agriculture and food systems and the role of food in social change. I am fascinated by questions about the ways, both subtle and dramatic, that food systems shape our lives and our environments. I collect data on phenomena like online local food marketing and the social and spatial relationships that make up food value chains. I also enjoy bringing insights from food studies to broader audiences by writing textbooks for college students and playing advisory or governance roles in multiple organizations working to change the food system for a more just and sustainable future.

Awards/Recognitions
- SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Faculty Service, 2022.
- Excellence in Instruction Award from the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society, 2017.
- SUNY Brockport, Scholarly Incentive Grant for “Canning Connections: Food Processing in the Erie Canal Corridor and the Emergence of the Industrial System, 2017.
- United University Professions Individual Development Awardfor “A comparative study of local food cooperatives (LFCs) and online farmers’ markets,” 2009.
- SUNY Brockport, Scholarly Incentive Grant for “A comparative study of local food cooperatives (LFCs) and online farmers’ markets,” 2009.
- New York State United University Professions, Dr. Nuala McGann Drescher Affirmative Action/Diversity Leave Grant for “Can the organic dairy industry revitalize the rural Northeast?”, 2007.
Recent Publications

Amy Guptill, Denise Copelton and Betsy Lucal. 2022. Food and Society: Principles and Paradoxes (3rd ed.). London: Polity. (1st edition, 2013; 2nd edition 2017)

Amy Guptill and Emelie Peine. 2021 “Feeding relations: Applying Luhmann’s operation theory to the food system.” Agriculture and Human Values, 38 (3): 741-752.

Amy Guptill, David A. Larsen, Rick Welsh, and Erin Kelly. 2018. “Do affluent urban consumers drive direct food sales in the Northeastern United States? A three-part analysis.” The Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 8(2): 73-86.

Amy Guptill. 2016. Writing In College: From Competence to Excellence. Geneseo, NY: Open SUNY Textbooks.

Amy Guptill, and Rick Welsh. 2014. “The Declining Middle of American Agriculture: A Spatial Phenomenon.” Pp. 36-50 in Rural America in a Globalizing World, the Rural Studies Series decennial volume, edited by Conner Bailey, Leif Jenson, and Elizabeth Ransom. West Virginia University Press.

Amy Guptill. 2009. “Exploring the Conventionalization of Organic Dairy: Trends and Counter-Trends in Upstate New York.” Agriculture and Human Values 26: 29-42.

Amy Guptill, and Richard Welsh. 2008. “Is Relationship Marketing an Alternative to the Corporatization of Organics? A Case-Study of OFARM)” Pp 55-78 in Food and the Mid-Level Farm: Renewing an Agriculture of the Middle, edited by Thomas A. Lyson, G.W. Stevenson and Rick Welsh, MIT Press.

Amy Guptill. 2008. “Infertile Ground: The Struggle for a New Puerto Rican Food System.” Pp. 203-224 in The Fight over Food: Producers, Consumers, and Activists Challenge the Global Food System, edited by Wynne Wright and Gerad Middendorf, Pennsylvania State University Press, Rural Studies Series.

Vivian Carro-Figueroa and Amy Guptill. 2007. “Emerging Farmers Markets and the Globalization of Food Retailing: A Perspective from Puerto Rico.” Pp. 260-276 in Remaking the North American Food System: Strategies for Sustainability, edited by Thomas A. Lyson and C. Clare Hinrichs, University of Nebraska Press.

Richard Pluke and Amy Guptill. 2005. “The social, ecological, and farming-system constraints on organic crop protection in central Puerto Rico.” Organic Research (a subscription database of peer-reviewed research on organic agriculture produced by CAB International).

Thomas A. Lyson. and Amy Guptill. 2004. “Commodity Agriculture, Civic Agriculture and the Future of U.S. Farming.” Rural Sociology, 69: 370-385.