Areas of Expertise

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

I’m an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in Science and Technology Studies and a lecturer in Dartmouth College’s Department of Geography. My research explores how agricultural futures are imagined versus what actually unfolds on the ground. I focus on how claims of scientific objectivity around emerging agricultural technologies are strategically used by farmers, corporations, states, scientists, and social movements to advance political agendas. My long-term project in Argentina investigates the “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 (2020-2024). Before coming to Dartmouth, I was a Research Fellow at Harvard’s Program on Science, Technology, and Society (2018–2020) while completing my PhD in Anthropology at the University of New Mexico (2020). I hold a Master’s in Global Policy Studies from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin (2015) and a BA from Smith College (2004).

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

Email
Geneva.M.Smith@Dartmouth.edu