Diana Mincyte

Faculty Fellow

Diana Mincyte is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the City University of New York-City Tech. Her research focuses on citizenship, subsistence, and self-reliance; food and environmental politics; gender; and socialism/postsocialism in Eastern Europe. Prior to joining CUNY, she held fellowships in the Rachel Carson Center at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, Germany; the Agrarian Studies Program at Yale University; and European and Mediterranean Studies at New York University; and was a visiting fellow in European Studies at Harvard University. Her research has been supported by fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the Open Society Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, among other agencies and published as books, journal articles, and book chapters.

Participating Years

2020–2021

The Agrarian Question Today

In the context of what appears to be inexorable urbanization, it is just as clear that agrarian questions are deeply enmeshed in the political, social, economic, and cultural challenges of contemporary existence. How have newer regimes of capital, particularly those associated with agri-business and food conglomerates, both formed and fractured agricultural communities?