Summer Ann Sullivan

User Summer Ann Sullivan

User PhD Candidate

Social Sciences Division

PhD Candidate

Graduate

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2019 MA, University of California, Berkeley

2017 BA, Lehigh University

 

 

 

Futures of Ecological Work; Agriculture; Labor; Political Economy; Digital Technologies

I currently study labor, plants, and digital technology in agricultural systems. 

Instructor of Record: Race and Environment, Spring 2024

 

Political Ecology, Human-Environment Geographies, Race & Environment, Critical Technology Studies, Agricultural Systems

 

 

2025 Center for Engaged Scholarship Dissertation Fellowship

2024 Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation Fellowship 

2024 Social Science Research Council Data Fluencies Doctoral Research Grant

2024 American Sociological Association Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant 

2024 UCSC Center for Labor and Community Graduate Student Fellowship

2024 Agricultural Experiment Station Fellowship

2024 Marxist Institute for Research Summer School

2024 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, UCSC

2023 Heller Agroecology Graduate Student Research Fellowship, UCSC

2022 Center for Archival Research and Training (CART) Fellow, UCSC 

2022 Smithsonian Institute Graduate Student Fellowship, Washington D.C.

2022 Social Science Research Council Dissertation Proposal Development Program  

2022 Dean’s Travel Grant, UCSC

2022 Heller Agroecology Graduate Student Research Fellowship, UCSC

2021 Institute for Social Transformation Sprout Grant (PI: Julie Guthman), UCSC

2020-2022 University of California Regents’ Fellowship

2019 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, University of California, Berkeley

 

Norton, Alix, Sullivan, Summer, and Collins, Riley. Guide to the William H. Friedland Papers [MS 076]. University Archives, University Library, University of California, Santa Cruz. https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf4f59p0k4/

Sullivan, Summer. 2023. Ag-tech, agroecology, and the politics of alternative farming futures: The challenges of bringing together diverse agricutlural epistemologies. Agriculture and Human Values. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-023-10454-2

Sullivan, Summer. 2023. The immaculate conception of data: Agribusiness, activists, and their shared politics of the future. By Kelly Bronson, Québec: McGill-Queen’s University Press. 2022. Journal of Agrarian Change. https://doi.org/10.1111/joac.12548

Cunniff, Abby, and Sullivan, Summer. 2022. This Prison in California Forced Incarcerated People to Drink Arsenic for Years. https://truthout.org/articles/this-prison-in-california-forced-incarcerated-people-to-drink-arsenic-for-years/

Sullivan, Summer, and Guthman, Julie. 2021. Sensing the Fields: A Report on the Emerging Ag-Tech Initiative at UCSC. UC Santa Cruz. Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6029523m

 

Last modified: Feb 14, 2025