Social Sciences Division
PhD Candidate
Graduate
Nat Sci 2 Main Building
467
No Mailstop
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