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I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Boston and a Visiting Scholar in the Global Food Ethics and Policy Program at Johns Hopkins University. In 2020 I was awarded a Kluge Fellowship at the Library of Congress and served as a Visiting Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. Previously, I served as an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science and Technology fellow working in the Office of Food for Peace at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and a postdoctoral fellow at the Watson Institute of International and Public Affairs at Brown University.
My research interests include international food security, ethics, economic and social rights, and human security. I received my PhD in Political Science from the George Washington University and hail from Fresno, CA, where I completed my BA at Fresno State through the Smittcamp Family Honors College.
For more information on my research, teaching, or my CV, please click
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I can be reached by email at: Michelle.Jurkovich(at)UMB(dot)edu.
I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Boston and a Visiting Scholar in the Global Food Ethics and Policy Program at Johns Hopkins University. In 2020 I was awarded a Kluge Fellowship at the Library of Congress and served as a Visiting Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. Previously, I served as an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science and Technology fellow working in the Office of Food for Peace at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and a postdoctoral fellow at the Watson Institute of International and Public Affairs at Brown University.
My research interests include international food security, ethics, economic and social rights, and human security. I received my PhD in Political Science from the George Washington University and hail from Fresno, CA, where I completed my BA at Fresno State through the Smittcamp Family Honors College.
For more information on my research, teaching, or my CV, please click
on the links above.
I can be reached by email at: Michelle.Jurkovich(at)UMB(dot)edu.