@article{shisler_cordero oceguera_hardison-moody_bowen_2023, title={Addressing and preventing food and housing insecurity among college students: An asset-based approach}, volume={12}, ISSN={2152-0801}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2023.122.022}, DOI={10.5304/jafscd.2023.122.022}, abstractNote={Universities have implemented a range of initiatives to address food and housing insecurity, but few studies have examined how campus communities are engaging around these issues. This article explores how North Carolina State University conducted asset-mapping workshops, a community-based participatory research (CBPR) method, to mobilize the campus community and identify solutions to address the root causes of food insecurity and other forms of basic needs insecurity among students. Workshop participants identified exemplary resources focused on addressing students’ immediate needs (e.g., campus food pantries, a student emergency fund). At the same time, they stated that basic needs insecurity is tied to longer-term, systemic issues like wage inequality and a lack of affordable housing. Participants also noted that historically marginalized students (e.g., LGBTQ+, low-income, first-generation college) often experience food and housing insecurity in complex ways requiring targeted solutions. Our results suggest that CBPR methods like asset mapping offer an approach that, when done well, can center the voices and experiences of diverse campus populations to identify and address the complex structural and systemic processes that shape students’ experiences of food and housing insecurity.}, number={2}, journal={Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development}, publisher={Lyson Center for Civic Agriculture and Food Systems}, author={Shisler, Rebecca and Cordero Oceguera, Emilia and Hardison-Moody, Annie and Bowen, Sarah}, year={2023}, month={Mar}, pages={135–153} }
 @article{smolski_piner_cruz_shisler_brinkmeyer_2023, place={TRAILS}, title={Systemic Racism and the Food System}, url={https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/systemic-racism-and-the-food}, note={Retrieved from}, journal={TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology}, publisher={Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology}, author={Smolski, A.R. and Piner, A.E. and Cruz, A. and Shisler, R. and Brinkmeyer, E.}, year={2023}, month={Sep} }
 @article{bloom_boys_shisler_dunning_hundley_yates_2022, title={Exploring Models of Local Food Procurement in Farm to Early Care and Education Programs}, volume={10}, url={https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/jhse/vol10/iss1/3}, number={1}, journal={Journal of Human Sciences and Extension}, author={Bloom, D. and Boys, K. and Shisler, R.C. and Dunning, R. and Hundley, C. and Yates, D.}, year={2022}, month={Apr}, pages={3} }
 @article{bowen_hardison-moody_eshleman_hossfeld_maaita_muhammad_shisler_solorzano_2021, title={The Impact of COVID-19 on Experiences of Food Insecurity Across Place: A Qualitative Research Protocol}, volume={20}, ISSN={1609-4069 1609-4069}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/16094069211062416}, DOI={10.1177/16094069211062416}, abstractNote={In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, rates of food insecurity in the United States doubled overall and tripled among households with children (Schanzenbach & Pitts, 2020). The increase was both unparalleled and disproportionately experienced by low-income, Black, Latino/a/x, and immigrant households (Lauren et al., 2021; Morales et al., 2020; Nagata et al., 2021; Wolfson & Leung, 2020). Even before the pandemic, rates of food insecurity in the United States were unusually high compared to other industrialized countries. Although parents try to shield their children from food insecurity (Elliott & Bowen, 2018; Olson, 2005; Stevens, 2010), research shows that children in food-insecure households are aware of food shortages (Fram et al., 2011) and experience a host of negative effects, including poorer general and oral health, poorer academic performance, behavioral and cognitive problems, and depression, aggression, and anxiety (Gundersen & Ziliak, 2014, 2018; Jyoti et al., 2005; Whitaker et al., 2006). The pandemic has revealed both the inadequacy and the potential of the U.S. welfare system. The United States Department of Agriculture’s comprehensive report on food insecurity in U.S. households throughout 2020, released in September 2021, estimates that surprisingly, the overall prevalence of food insecurity did not increase from 2019 (before the pandemic) to 2020, even though households spent more on food during the pandemic (Coleman-Jensen et al., 2021). Early research suggests that boosts to federal food assistance programs and other pandemic responses (such as the Federal supplement to unemployment and the eviction moratorium) may have made the difference. However, rates of food insecurity rose among specific groups, and the USDA concludes that more research is needed to understand the dynamics of food insecurity and other food hardships in U.S. households during the pandemic (Ibid.). Before the pandemic, participant levels for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistant Program (SNAP, also known as food stamps) were near historic highs. After cash benefits were severely cut by the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (Collins & Mayer, 2010; Hays, 2003), Supplemental Nutrition Assistant Program has become a more central part of the safety net, and families who do not receive SNAP face greater risks (Parolin & Brady, 2019). In general, public benefits are increasingly complicated or cumbersome to get and keep (Herd & Moynihan, 2018), and critics argue that SNAP is overly burdensome, provides inadequate support, and fails to reach all of the people who need it (Dickinson, 2020; Mulik & Haynes-Maslow, 2017). Dickinson (2020) argues that SNAP incentivizes low-wage work for poor families by making it possible for them to survive (but not get ahead) in jobs that pay below subsistence wages. The tragedy of the pandemic presents an important case study not only because of the rise in food insecurity, but also because of the unprecedented governmental response. Specifically, policies implemented in the early months of the pandemic removed many of the administrative burdens (see Herd & Moynihan, 2018) associated with receiving governmental assistance, provided direct cash payments to most families, and created more generous unemployment and food assistance benefits. The Families First Coronavirus Response Act, passed in March 2020, included more than $1 billion in funding for federal food assistance programs, including}, journal={International Journal of Qualitative Methods}, publisher={SAGE Publications}, author={Bowen, Sarah and Hardison-Moody, Annie and Eshleman, Kim and Hossfeld, Cassius and Maaita, Marah and Muhammad, Najma and Shisler, Rebecca and Solorzano, G}, year={2021}, month={Jan}, pages={160940692110624} }
 @article{shisler_sbicca_2019, title={Agriculture as Carework: The Contradictions of Performing Femininity in a Male-Dominated Occupation}, volume={32}, ISSN={["1521-0723"]}, url={https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2019.1597234}, DOI={10.1080/08941920.2019.1597234}, abstractNote={ABSTARCT Women in the US have farmed for centuries, but have infrequently had the farmer title. Rural sociologists have explored women’s on-farm roles, as well as rural conceptualizations of gender that influence who can be a farmer. As the proportion of women claiming the farmer title increases, it is important to explore women farmers’ experiences. This article focuses on sixteen farmers in Colorado across the conventional-alternative spectrum. Through engagement with feminist and rural sociological theory, and based on analysis of semi-structured interviews, we contend that women in this study expand what it means to be a farmer by performing femininity through carework within their farming practice. This study demonstrates how some women farmers adapt a variety of predominantly feminine-coded work—such as education, customer support, and feeding work—to make agriculture a space of carework, and farming a role expanded beyond a masculine ideal.}, number={8}, journal={SOCIETY & NATURAL RESOURCES}, publisher={Informa UK Limited}, author={Shisler, Rebecca C. and Sbicca, Joshua}, year={2019}, month={Aug}, pages={875–892} }