Analena B. Bruce

Analena Bruce is the Director of the UNH Food Systems Lab and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Agriculture, Nutrition, and Food Systems at the University of New Hampshire. She is a sociologist with a research program on the development of sustainable livelihood strategies for New England farmers and Values-Based Food Supply Chains designed to increase equity, transparency, and resilience in the food system. Her previous research is focused on farmers’ participation in initiatives designed to increase the social and environmental sustainability of agriculture, including Alternative Food Networks, organic certification, the EQIP Seasonal High Tunnel Initiative, and other conservation programs. She also has a line of research on public engagement with regulatory policy that governs science and technology in the food system. 

Prior to coming to UNH, Analena was a postdoc at Indiana University Bloomington, where she conducted applied research on sustainable agriculture and food system development. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. As a graduate student, she co-managed a small organic farm in rural Ohio where she led community-based local food programs and events and interned with a farmer- based grassroots organization, the Ohio Ecological Food & Farm Association, OEFFA.