Claire's research agenda focuses on several areas:
Food systems and sustainable communities.
Leadership and change.
Disaster and recovery events.
Meaning making in critical change events.
Social and emerging media as tools of communication in critical change.
Claire is not only a chef, she is also a trained ethnographer who combines in-depth fieldwork with theoretical, emergent analysis. Claire's work integrates audio, video, and other ethnographic tools with written narrative and analysis. Claire is a scholar practitioner who envisions research as part of her own process of professional inquiry.
She has published numerous articles and chapters on both areas of research. Claire regularly presents her work at academic and popular conferences and venues. She also has extensive teaching experience not only in these content areas, but also in the practice of engaged ethnography.
Comments From Others...
"Reading this dissertation catapults one into an Emerson greeting a Whitman at the beginning of a great career. I felt I was reading a scholar's gift to community, in how it identifies the questions, the topics, the approaches." Dr. Barbara Mossberg
"The sophisticated methodology, combining a range of ethnographic methods, facilitated the emergence of a multidimensional picture of meanings attached to food. A solid theoretical frame holds the dissertation together. Theory is interwoven throughout the consecutive chapters, highlighting how different dimensions of how people talk about food systems. This is visible in the eloquent quality of the narrative." Dr. Philomena Essed
"As with all things Claire, it is complex in substance and format but well worth the effort to climb the learning curve." Dr. Richard A. Couto
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