Areas of Expertise

science and technology studies (STS), Political anthropology, agrarian studies, New England, Argentina, and Latin America

I’m a Research Scientist and Lecturer in Dartmouth College’s Department of Geography, where I study how agricultural futures are imagined versus what actually unfolds on the ground. My ethnographic research focuses on how claims of scientific objectivity around emerging agricultural technologies are deployed by farmers, corporations, states, scientists, and social movements to advance political agendas. My long-term project in Argentina investigates the so-called “unintended consequences” of GM soybean monocropping, while a newer study engages regenerative farming movements across the northeastern United States.

I began at Dartmouth as a postdoctoral fellow for the interdisciplinary graduate program on Ecology, Evolution, Environment and Society before being awarded an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship through the program on Science and Technology Studies. Before coming to Dartmouth, I was a Research Fellow at Harvard University’s Program on Science, Technology, and Society while completing my PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology at the University of New Mexico. I also hold a Master’s in Global Policy Studies from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin and a BA from Smith College.

I currently live in Vermont with my husband, two kids, and our (big) puppy Mango Pongo.

Email
Geneva.M.Smith@Dartmouth.edu