Dr. Sarah Franzen
Assistant Professor - Anthropology
Ph.D. Emory University
M.A. Manchester University
B.A. Colorado State University
Phone: (225) 578 5957
E-mail: sfranzen@lsu.edu
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
鈥淭he Value of Farming: Multi-faceted Wealth Generation through Cooperative Development.鈥� Economic Anthropology. 7(2): 279-292. (2020)
鈥淒igital Transformations: Integrating Ethnographic Video into a Multimodal Platform.鈥� In R. Freeman and J. Crowder (Eds). Anthropological Data in the Digital Age: New Possibilities 鈥� New Challenges. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. (2019)
鈥淔raming Nature: Visual Representations of Ecological Paradigms.鈥� Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems. 1-3 (2017)
鈥淩eality Education: Agricultural Knowledge Exchange in the US South.鈥� Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development. 7(2): 69-83. (2017)
鈥淚ntroduction: Participatory Research and Visual Methods.鈥� Visual Methodologies. 4(1): 1-9. (2016).
鈥淓ngaging a Specific, Not General, Public: The use of ethnographic film in public scholarship.鈥� Qualitative Research. 13(4): 414-427. (2013).