Katherine Strand

PhD student
McGill University, 845 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Quebec Canada
katherine.strand@mail.mcgill.ca
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  • Examined productivist and post-productivist agriculture including industrial farming, organic production, and community supported agriculture, material culture and landscape theory, political ecology, the American Dust Bowl, western United States and Canada
  • 2014 Strand, Katherine, Eric Arnould, and Melea Press. Tillage Practices and Identity Formation in High Plains Farming, Journal of Material Culture. December 2014; 19(4): 355-373.
  • 2014 Press, Melea, Eric Arnould, Jeff B. Murray, and Katherine Strand. Ideological Challenges to Changing Market Orientation in Commodity Agriculture, Journal of Marketing.  November 2014; 78(6): 103-119.
  • 2013 Strand, Katherine. Cleaning and Preparing Baskets, Guide to Community Supported Agriculture in Wyoming and the Rocky Mountain West.  Laramie, Wyoming: University of Wyoming Extension Service.
  • Strand, Katherine. Community Supported Agriculture in Wyoming, Guide to Community Supported Agriculture in Wyoming and the Rocky Mountain West.  Laramie, Wyoming: University of Wyoming Extension Service.
  • 2013 Arnould, Eric, Katherine Strand, and Cole Ehmke. Setting Up Shares, Guide to Community Supported Agriculture in Wyoming and the Rocky Mountain West.  Laramie, Wyoming: University of Wyoming.
  • 2013 Panter, Karen and Katherine Strand. Growing Produce for Your CSA in High-Altitude Conditions, Guide to Community Supported Agriculture in Wyoming and the Rocky Mountain West.  Laramie, Wyoming: University of Wyoming

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  • Currently working on PhD dissertation research in Swift Current, Saskatchewan
  • Ethnographic research with local farmers and scientists that work out of a research station, Semi-Arid Prairie Agricultural Research Centre, which came about to address the specific concerns of the Dust Bowl
  • Her research bridges scientific research and practical on-farm in an examination of what’s happening with public research and how that is impacting farmers on the ground

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Interested in academic and research positions
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Human Capital and Migration
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Research Gate
McGill University 
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