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JAN POPPENDIECK Jan Poppendieck has taught Sociology at Hunter College, City University of New York, since 1976. From 1989 until 2001, she served as Director of the Hunter College Center for the Study of Family Policy, with the exception of the 1998-1999 academic year, during which she served as Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs in the School of Arts and Sciences. Her primary concerns, both as a scholar and as an activist, have been poverty, hunger, and food assistance in the United States. She is the author of Breadlines Knee Deep in Wheat: Food Assistance in the Great Depression (Rutgers: 1986), Sweet Charity? Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement (Viking, 1998, penguin paperback, 1999) and articles on hunger, food assistance and public policy. Since the publication of Sweet Charity?, Dr. Poppendieck has been speaking to audiences of charitable food program staff and volunteers across the country. At Hunter, her interest in hunger as a public issue is reflected in a special course entitled "Hunger in America" and a companion field experience seminar called "Practicum: Action Against Hunger". Dr. Poppendieck is particularly interested in the integration of academic and experiential learning, and she has taught a variety of course-related fieldwork seminars: the Sociology Department’s pre-social work seminar, an AIDS fieldwork seminar, a course for students participating in the Community Interpreter Project, and a Child Welfare fieldwork seminar. She received her undergraduate degree in History from Duke University (‘67) and her Masters (‘72) and PhD (‘78) degrees from the Florence Heller Graduate School for Advanced Studies in Social Welfare at Brandeis University. A 1984-1987 W.K. Kellogg Foundation National Fellow, she has traveled widely in both the U.S. and the developing world. She serves on the Boards of Directors of the Community Food Resource Center and the Association for the Study of Food and Society and the Advisory Committees of City-as-School and the Welfare Rights Initiative. Dept. of Sociology
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