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Matthew Comi

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Matt Comi

Biography

Matt's work is motivated by a goal to support more sustainable, healthy, and equitable food producing systems on a warming planet. His research and teaching draws on literatures in environmental, cultural and rural sociology while emphasizing issues long relevant to science and technology studies. Current and recent projects have examined diverse areas of inquiry including the environmental and societal impacts of precision agriculture, knowledge making among hop growers and breeders, public internet accessibility, and the contemporary digital agriculture marketplace with respect to traceability. His work has been funded through the National Science Foundation, The Frank and Betty Koller Trusts, and the Great Plains Center for Agricultural Health.

Education

Ph D, University of Kansas, 2022

Major: Sociology

Teaching

SOC 4100

Contemporary Social Theory WE, Spring 2024

SOC 3690

Internet and Society, Spring 2024

SOC 1010

Introduction to Sociology SS, Spring 2024

SOC 1010

Introduction to Sociology SS, Spring 2024

Scholarly/Creative Works

Comi, Matt , (2024) "Branding, Breeding, and the Co-production of New Aroma Hops in the Yakima Valley" . Science, Technology, and Human Values.
Comi, Matt , Smith, Sarah , Goettlich, Walter A, Alexander, Perry , Davidson, Drew , Staples, William G, (2024) "Digital home-lessness: Exploring the links between public Internet access, technological capital, and social inequality" (Issue: 1, vol. 72). Current Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1177/00113921221111819
Comi, Matt , (2023) "Farmers who tinker_ Grounded alternatives to incrementalism and the growth imperative" (Issue: 63). Sociologia Ruralis. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/soru.12445
Burch, Karly , Guthman, Julie , Gugganig, Mascha , Bronson, Kelly , Comi, Matt , Legun, Katharine , Biltekoff, Charlotte , Broad, Garrett , Brock, Samara , Freidberg, Susanne , Baur, Patrick , Mincyte, Diana , (2023) "Social science – STEM collaborations in agriculture, food and beyond_ an STSFAN manifesto" . Agriculture and Human Values. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-023-10438-2
Burch, Karly , Gugganig, Mascha , Guthman, Julie , Reisman, Emily , Comi, Matt , Brock, Samara , Kagliwal, Barkha , Freidberg, Susanne , Baur, Patrick , Heimstädt, Cornelius , Sippel, Sarah Ruth, Speakman, Kelsey , Marquis, Sarah , Argüelles, Lucía , Biltekoff, Charlotte , Broad, Garrett , Bronson, Kelly , Faxon, Hilary , Frohlich, Xaq , Ghosh, Ritwick , Halfon, Saul , Legun, Katharine , Martin, Sarah J., (2023) "Cultivating intellectual community in academia_ reflections from the Science and Technology Studies Food and Agriculture Network (STSFAN)" . Agriculture and Human Values. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-023-10439-1
Comi, Matt , Becot, Florence , Bendixsen, Casper , (2023) "Automation, Climate Change, and the Future of Farm Work_ Cross-Disciplinary Lessons for Studying Dynamic Changes in Agricultural Health and Safety" (Issue: 6, vol. 20). International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/20/6/4778