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Carol Goland
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Dr. Carol Goland received her B.A. from Beloit College, M.A. from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Dr. Goland's training is in Anthropology, with a interdisciplinary focus on humans in the environment. Her teaching, research, and advocacy work reflect her interest in farming issues.
Dr. Goland’s dissertation research was undertaken in the Peruvian Andes, and focused on the indigenous farming system, providing an analysis of agricultural field scattering as a response to ecological risk. Dr. Goland's current research interests focus on sustainable food and farming systems in the Midwestern U.S. She has done research on the Community Supported Agriculture movement (including advising senior research on this topic by Sarah Lechner '02) and the preservation of heirloom crop varieties (Sarah Bauer, ’99). She has supervised a number of student research projects that relate to sustainable agriculture, including customer motivations in purchasing eco-labeled foods (Shannon Varley '99), the impact of GMOs on organic farmers (Kate Bush ’04), Farm-to-College Programs (Alicia Dunn ’04), the impacts of a factory farm on a local community (Lindsay Hoffman ’01), and the opportunities for fostering local food systems through the creation of local food guides and institutional purchasing arrangements (with Sarah Borron '02).
Dr. Goland's has served as a member of the Licking County Farmland Preservation Task Force (2001-2004) and on the Board of Directors of the Innovative Farmers of Ohio (2001-2004). Currently Dr. Goland is also the Executive Director of the Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association, Ohio’s oldest and largest sustainable agriculture organization. Dr. Goland was appointed by the Governor to serve on Ohio’s Food Policy Advisory Council.
Among the courses she has taught at Denison are People and the Environment, Ecology and Culture, Sustainable Agriculture, and the Senior Capstone Seminar, which in 2001 focused on reducing pesticide use in schools [pdf] and in 2002 worked to link farmers and restaurants in the Granville area [pdf].