Kelly Haggerty

My research background involves using qualitative geographic and anthropological methods to examine human's relationship to garbage in urban environments. This began during my B.A. in anthropology at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, where I was interested in the scale of food waste in urban agriculture. Following my B.A., I wrote my M.S. geography thesis, The Garbage That We Eat about the urban metabolism of food waste in New Orleans, Louisiana. Between my M.S. and now, I directed a non-profit called Food Rescue US - New Orleans and organized the food recycling chapter of the New Orleans Food Policy Council. My PhD journey in the Department of Geography, Environment, and Urban Studies at Temple University will look at garbage more generally and consider human's relationship to material waste through a political, economic, social, and affective lens.