Justin Sean Myers

Associate Professor of Sociology

Justin Sean Myers, Associate Professor at California State University, Fresno

Justin Sean Myers is an Associate Professor of Sociology at California State University, Fresno (Fresno State). He received his PhD from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) in 2013.1 3

Areas of Specialty

Environmental Sociology
Sociology of Food & Agriculture
Environmental Justice & Food Justice
Social Inequality
Social Movements
Work & Labor
Urban Sociology
Critical Theory1

Research Focus

His research investigates the relationship between oppression and resistance by exploring how social movements utilize food as a means to address social, economic, and environmental injustice. His primary research project focuses on East New York Farms (ENYF!), a food justice organization in Brooklyn, and analyzes their efforts to build a community food system to address marginalization.1

Recent Publications

Growing Gardens, Building Power: Food Justice and Urban Agriculture in Brooklyn (2023, Rutgers University Press)1
"The Tale of Two Gardens: Green Aesthetics vs Food Justice in the Big Apple" (2020, Agriculture & Human Values)1
"Theories in Environmental Sociology" (2020, Twenty Lessons in Environmental Sociology)1
"Community Gardens and Gentrification in New York City: The Uneven Politics of Facilitation, Accommodation, and Resistance" (2020, A Recipe for Gentrification: Food, Power, and Resistance in the City)1
"Food and Hunger" (2018, Twenty Lessons in Food and Agriculture)1