Biography
Professor Janet Poppendieck has taught Sociology at
Hunter College, City University of New York, since 1976. She received her
undergraduate degree in History from Duke University (‘67) and her Masters (‘72)
and PhD (‘79) degrees from the Florence Heller Graduate School for Advanced
Studies in Social Welfare at Brandeis University. From 1988 until 2001, she
served as director of the Hunter College Center for the Study of Family Policy,
where she helped to start the Welfare Rights Initiative, the Community
Interpreter Project, and the Language Diversity Initiative. Her primary
concerns, both as a scholar and as an activist, have been poverty, hunger, and
food assistance in the United States.
A 1984-1987 W.K. Kellogg Foundation National Fellow, she has traveled widely
in both the U.S. and the developing world. She serves on the Board of Directors
of the Association for the Study of Food and Society and the Advisory Committees
of City-as-School and the Welfare Rights Initiative. She lives in Brooklyn with
her husband, Woody Goldberg; they are the parents of Amanda Goldberg. Professor
Poppendieck is currently a member of the Department's Personnel and Budget
Committee.
A 1984-1987 W.K. Kellogg Foundation National Fellow, she has traveled widely in both the U.S. and the developing world. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Association for the Study of Food and Society and the Advisory Committees of City-as-School and the Welfare Rights Initiative. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, Woody Goldberg; they are the parents of Amanda Goldberg. Professor Poppendieck is currently a member of the Department's Personnel and Budget Committee.
Publications
She is the author of Breadlines Knee Deep in Wheat: Food Assistance
in the
Great Depression (Rutgers: 1986), Sweet Charity? Emergency
Food and the
End of Entitlement (Viking, 1998, Penguin paperback, 1999) and
articles on
hunger, food assistance and public policy. Her new book, Free for
All: Fixing
School Food in America will be released by the University of California
Press in January, 2010. See link below:
http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/10315.php