At its core, her research is about various efforts and social movements to transform the way food is produced, distributed, and consumed. Her book, Agrarian dreams: the paradox of organic farming in California (University of California, 2004), won the 2007 Frederick H. Buttel Award for Outstanding Scholarly Achievement from the Rural Sociological Society. She can be contacted at: Department of Community Studies, 1156 High St. University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA; email: jguthman@ucsc.edu