Faculty

William Schanbacher

Associate Professor

Contact

Phone: 813.974.2730
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 鈥淔ood 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 国产短视频Urban Food Sovereignty Initiative, an interdisciplinary research effort dedicated to finding solutions to food insecurity and exploring ways to build community food sovereignty.