I am a human-environment geographer, science studies scholar, agroecologist, and Assistant Professor of Environment & Sustainability at the University at Buffalo in New York. I study the ecosocial entanglements of agriculture. My current book project contrasts almond production paradigms in California and Spain to explore the politics of agricultural knowledge, ecologies of rural precarity, and more-than-human geographies of landscape care. In collaboration with the Agri-Food Technology Research (AFTeR) project, I examine the politics, promises and limits of a digital revolution for agriculture. My newest research project, Ecologies of Farm Automation, endeavors to understand the socio-ecological implications of recent AI-enabled agricultural machines. Previous projects examined village seed banks in India and forest rehabilitation in Togo. My work has been supported by the Fulbright Program and Wenner-Gren Foundation, and has received awards from the Society for Agriculture, Food & Human Values and the Anthropology & Environment Society.
Emily Reisman 