Faculty
William Schanbacher
Associate Professor
Contact
Phone: 813.974.1875
Email: william48@usf.edu
Office: CPR 468F
Bio
Dr. Will Schanbacher is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of South Florida. His research interests concentrate on religious and social ethics with a focus on food sovereignty and local and global food systems. He is the author of Food as a Human Right: Combatting Global Hunger and Forging a Path to Food Sovereignty (Prager, 2019), and The Politics of Food: The Global Conflict between Food Security and Food Sovereignty (Praeger, 2010). His new book “Food Insecurity: A Reference Handbook (Bloomsbury Academic 2023) addresses the history of food insecurity in the United States through a food sovereignty lens. He is the Director of the ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏUrban Food Sovereignty Initiative, an interdisciplinary research effort dedicated to finding solutions to food insecurity and exploring ways to build community food sovereignty.