Dr. Sarah Franzen

Assistant Professor - Anthropology

Ph.D. Emory University

M.A. Manchester University

B.A. Colorado State University

Phone: (225) 578 5957

Office: 227 Howe-Russell-Kniffen Geoscience Complex

Research

Sarah Franzen combines cultural and visual anthropology to explore agricultural systems, rural development, and community organizing. Her research focuses particularly on African American cooperatives and rural development in the southeastern US.

Selected Publications

“The Value of Farming: Multi-faceted Wealth Generation through Cooperative Development.” Economic Anthropology. 7(2): 279-292. (2020)

“Digital Transformations: Integrating Ethnographic Video into a Multimodal Platform.” In R. Freeman and J. Crowder (Eds). Anthropological Data in the Digital Age: New Possibilities – New Challenges. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. (2019)

“Framing Nature: Visual Representations of Ecological Paradigms.” Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems. 1-3 (2017)

“Reality Education: Agricultural Knowledge Exchange in the US South.” Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development. 7(2): 69-83. (2017)

“Introduction: Participatory Research and Visual Methods.” Visual Methodologies. 4(1): 1-9. (2016).

“Engaging a Specific, Not General, Public: The use of ethnographic film in public scholarship.” Qualitative Research. 13(4): 414-427. (2013).