Food Pantries Subject Of W&L Talk
The next installment of the “Just Food” series presented by Campus Kitchen at Washington and Lee University will take place Wednesday, Oct. 15, at 6 p.m., in Leyburn Library’s Northen Auditorium.
The speaker will be Leah Gose ’15, a Provost Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Southern C a l i f o r n i a ’s Department of Sociology. Her talk, titled “Feeding Americans: How Food Pantries Fuel Civic Life in the USA,” is free and open to the public.
Gose’s research focuses on the role of community organizations as vital aspects of the social safety net in how they shape access to resources, provide opportunities for community building and engagement and respond to governmental policies and funding influences. Her scholarship is rooted in studies of organizations and inequality and poverty, and engages with urban sociology, political sociology, social policy and social networks.
“We are so excited to welcome an outstanding alumna, Leah Gose, back to campus for this lecture and related activities,” said Jon Eastwood, head of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at W&L. “Students, faculty and staff, and community members will learn a lot from listening to her talk about her research on food pantries and civic life. And from a professor’s point of view, there’s nothing better than seeing your former students go on and become experts in the field, so I’m looking forward to learning from her as well.”
Gose’s lecture is presented by the 1963 Scholars in Residence Program, the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, the Shepherd Program and Campus Kitchen.
