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Cross appointments

• Environment, Sustainability and Society
  
• Gender and Women's Studies
• International Development Studies

Education

• BA, University of Toronto
• MA, PhD, New School for Social Research

Research interests

Liz Fitting is a social anthropologist interested in the interconnections between the political economy of food and migration. This interest has informed her research on topics ranging from the regulation of, and public debate around, transgenic maize in Mexico, the effects of structural adjustment and trade liberalization on agricultural livelihoods and rural migration to activist responses to seed regulations in Colombia and Mexico. Currently, her research is focused on the livelihoods of migrant agricultural workers employed in Atlantic Canada, and explores questions related to the food system, social听reproduction, and the听uneven effects of the global economy.

Dr. Fitting is a principal investigator for the Warming Oceans, Changing Livelihoods project, part of the Climate Justice: Values and Vulnerabilities Lab.听

In a smaller project, Dr. Fitting collected听first-hand accounts of coming out or being out as 2SLGBTQ+ during the AIDS crisis in Canada, with听a team of collaborators听(Dr. Margaret Robinson, Dr. Nick J. Mule, and Dr. Schem Bader, and RAs Joseph Lahey and Dani Sherwood).

Selected publications听听 听

• Fitting, E., Lahey, J., Sherwood, D., Robinson, M., Mul茅, N. J., & Bader, S. (2026). 鈥淲e Were in Solidarity with Each Other鈥�: Oral Histories on Coming Out During the AIDS Crisis in Canada. Journal of Homosexuality, 1鈥�25. 听听
• Bryan, C. and E. Fitting, 2025 鈥淪tructured Exclusions, Partial inclusions: Transnational Care Chains and Temporary Foreign Workers in Atlantic Canada鈥�,听Dialectical Anthropology听49, 337鈥�364.听
• Fitting, E. 2025. 鈥淭he agricultural care chains of migrant farmworkers: land, livelihoods and social reproduction鈥�, .听
• Fitting, E. 2024. in Jeannie Whayne (ed.) . Pp 251-268. Oxford University Press.听
• Fitting, E., Bryan, C., Foster, K. and Ellsworth, J. 2022. Re-centering labour in local food: local washing and the growing reliance on permanently temporary migrant farmworkers in Nova Scotia. .
• Fitting, Elizabeth, Laura Guti茅rrez Escobar, and Tamara Wattnem,听2021. 鈥淐ontesting seed standards: The Red de Semillas Libres in Colombia鈥� in Graham, J.E., Holmes, C.P., McDonald, F., and Darnell, R. (eds). 2021. The Social Life of Standards. UBC Press. Pp. 141-158.
• 2018. "鈥� in eds. Pascale Joassart-Marcelli and Fernando J. Bosco, Food and Place: A Critical Exploration. Rowman & Littlefield. Pp. 52-66.
• Guti茅rrez Escobar, L., and Fitting, E. 2016 The Red de Semillas Libres: Contesting Biohegemony in Colombia. Journal of Agrarian Change, doi: .
• 2016听 in eds. Meredith Abarca and Consuelo Salas, Latin@s' Presence in the Food Industry: Changing How We Think about Food University of Arkansas Press. Pp. 77-100.
• 2014 in (eds) Carole Counihan and Valeria Siniscalchi, Food Activism: Agency, Democracy and Economy. Berg.
• 2012 听Japanese translation of The Struggle for Maize, with new preface. Translator: Minoru Satomi. Nobunkyo, Rural Culture Association.
• 2011听 , Duke University Press.