Ph.D. student Becca Chalit-Hernandez has been awarded the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society (AFHVS) Graduate Student Research Paper Award for her paper, “Hunger Strikes and Differential Consciousness: Impure Contestation, Hunger, and the Building of Symbolic Futures.”

AFHVS is a leading interdisciplinary food studies association. The committee for Becca’s prestigious award wrote, “This paper is well written and addresses a very important, complex topic (how incarcerated hunger strikers and their supporters build legitimate authority within recognizable relations while building space for alternative logic) with depth and nuance.  The explicit and clear use of feminist methods was a strength. The paper offers unique reflections on a community often ignored, and brings contributions to both theory and praxis.”

Becca will present her paper virtually at this year’s AFHVS/ASFS/CAFS/SAFN Just Food Conference.