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 * Memo 6: Biosketch 2033**


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Guy Schaffer is an associate professor in the Food Studies department at the University of Minnesota, and a frequent contributor to [//Lefty Science Magazine//]. A sociologist of food and waste, his research interests include waste policy and waste reform, community organizing, DIY healthcare, and science communication. Following his dissertation work on grassroots compost activism and industrial organics recycling, Schaffer published the book //It’s Our Trash, Too: The Struggle Over Foodscraps Composting in New York State.// After a series of smaller research projects on alternative approaches to waste including struggles over humanure, the history of //Hints from Heloise//, and Food Not Bombs, he published the popular press book, //Too Short to Save: Waste Stewardship from Breadclips to Bodies//. In recent years, he’s written several articles on health social movements and alternative health systems, branching out from decentralized "waste" stewardship to include community-based models of care for bodies and health. His writing has appeared in _____, _, __ and the edited collection // Cyborgology: A Compendium of Augmented Reality  // (Princeton Press, 2019). Schaffer teaches the following courses: Sociology of Waste, Food Systems, Science and Technology in Society, and a course on writing critically about science for the popular press.

Guy Schaffer’s research interests include social construction of waste, health and environmental social movements, participant action research, sustainability studies, ecological modernization, public understanding and engagement with science technology and health, complementary and alternative medicine, and alternative food systems.