Associate Professor of Anthropology & Director of the University of Arizona’s Center for Regional Food Studies

Megan Carney is a feminist medical and sociocultural anthropologist with specializations in migration, health, and food and water insecurity. She maintains active community-based collaborative research partnerships in both the U.S. and the central Mediterranean. She has been a member of the faculty in Anthropology and Director of the Center for Regional Food Studies at the University of Arizona since 2017. She is the author of two critically-acclaimed books, The Unending Hunger: Tracing Women and Food Insecurity Across Borders (2015, University of California Press) which was awarded Outstanding Academic Title by CHOICE and selected as a “California Book-to-Action”, and Island of Hope: Migration and Solidarity in the Mediterranean (2021, University of California Press). Her research has been funded by the Fulbright Schuman European Union Public Affairs Program, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Institute for Mexico and the United States (UC-MEXUS), the Agnese Nelms Haury Foundation, and USDA, among others. She is the incoming President-elect for the Association of Feminist Anthropology.