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Naomi Shanguhyia

(Pronouns: She, Her)

Contact Information:

nyshangu@syr.edu

Naomi Shanguhyia

Associate Teaching Professor, Geography and the Environment Department


Senior Research Associate, Maxwell African Scholars Union

Courses

  • 2024 Fall
    • FST 102 Food Fights: Contemporary Food Issues
    • FST 486 Food Studies Practicum
    • FST 204 Food, Identity, and Power
    • FST 797 Practicum in Food Studies and Systems
    • FST 375/675 Practicum Pre-Planning
  • 2024 Spring
    • FST 102 Food Fights: Contemporary Food Issues
    • FST 486 Food Studies Practicum
    • FST 204 Food, Identity, and Power
    • FST 797 Practicum in Food Studies and Systems
    • FST 375 Practicum Pre-Planning
    • HNR 360 Topics in the Social Sciences Honors - Hunger & Food Sovereignty Afri
  • 2023 Fall
    • FST 102 Food Fights: Contemporary Food Issues
    • FST 486 Food Studies Practicum
    • FST 204 Food, Identity, and Power
    • FST 797 Practicum in Food Studies and Systems
    • FST 375/675 Practicum Pre-Planning
    • GEO 400 Selected Topics - Hunger&Food Sovereignty-Africa
  • 2023 Spring
    • FST 102 Food Fights: Contemporary Food Issues
    • FST 486 Food Studies Practicum
    • FST 204 Food, Identity, and Power
    • FST 797 Practicum in Food Studies and Systems
  • 2022 Fall
    • FST 102 Food Fights: Contemporary Food Issues
    • FST 486 Food Studies Practicum
    • FST 797 Practicum in Food Studies and Systems
    • GEO 400 Selected Topics - Geographies of Hunger - Africa
  • 2022 Spring
    • FST 102 Food Fights: Contemporary Food Issues

Highest degree earned

Ph.D., West Virginia University, 2013

Research Grant Awards and Projects

"Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Thought Leadership Partnership with Syracuse University's Lender Center", Sponsored by MetLife Foundation.

"Land Use Change as an Adaptation Strategy to Coupled Climate and Economic Change in Rural Western Kenya: Implications for Vulnerability Reduction", Sponsored by National Science Foundation (NSF).

"HERF Supplementary Fellowship", Sponsored by West Virginia University .

"Doctoral Dissertation Travel Supplementary Grant", Sponsored by West Virginia University Department of Geology & Geography.

"Global Education Opportunities Grant", Sponsored by West Virginia University Office of International Programs.

Selected Publications

  • Journal Article
    • Shanguhyia, N. Y., McCusker, B., "Chronic Food Insecurity in Kenya’s ASAL Areas: Naturalizing Uneven Development through Depeasantization and Deproletarianization." Human Geography: A Radical Journal, 2013.
  • Dissertations
    • Shanguhyia, N. Y., Dialectics of Rural Change: A Political Economy of Livelihoods and Landscape Change in Western Kenya. , 2013.
    • Shanguhyia, N. Y., State Policy and Food Insecurity in Kenya’s ASAL Regions. , 2008.
  • Technical Report
    • Kennedy, K., Faulkner, C., Edwards, K., Maye, M., Salomone, K., Shanguhyia, N. Y. and Sloane, J., Educational Excellence Subcommittee Strategic Planning Recommendation Report. , 2017.
  • Thesis
    • Shanguhyia, N. Y., Improved Woodstove Use and Intra-household Resource Allocation among Rural Households in Vihiga – Kenya. , 2001.

Presentations and Events

OXFAM Hunger Banquet, Syracuse University OXFAM Chapter, "The Right to Food & Food Security" (November, 2023)

International Studies Summer Institute Workshop for K-12 Teachers, Cornell University, "COVID-19 and Food Security in Africa" (June 30, 2020)

Prof. Masood Hyder's PAI 700: Food Security Class (Maxwell School), "Small Scale Farming and the Role of Women in Food Production in Africa" (April 18, 2019)

Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers, "Boon or Bane? Commercial farming as a strategy for rural livelihood security in western Kenya" (April 21, 2015 - April 25, 2015)

SUNY Oneonta Center for Social Science Research (CSSR) Diversity Series Program, "Social and Environmental Contexts of Food" (April 10, 2014)

Maxwell African Scholars Union
346 Eggers Hall