Areas of Expertise

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

I’m a NSF Postdoctoral Fellow funded through the program on Science and Technology Studies and a lecturer in the Department of Geography at Dartmouth College. In my two research projects, I look at the ways agricultural futures get imagined and what happens when the rubber meets the road. I’m particularly interested in how discourses of scientific objectivity around emerging agricultural technologies are put to work in service of varied political ends by farmers, as well as corporate, state, scientific and social movement actors. My long-term research project in Argentina examines the “unintended consequences” of GM soybean monocropping, while a newer project engages regenerative farming movements in the northeastern United States.

I started at Dartmouth as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the interdisciplinary graduate program on Ecology, Evolution, Environment and Society (2020-2024). Prior to coming to Dartmouth, I was a Research Fellow at Harvard University’s Program on Science, Technology and Society (2018-2020) while completing my dissertation for the Department of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico (2020). I previously received a Master's in Global Policy Studies from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin (2015), and my 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