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Dr. Nathan McClintock
Assistant Professor of Urban Studies & Planning

Ph.D. Geography 2011, University of California, Berkeley; M.S. Crop Science/Agroecology 2004, North Carolina State University; B.A. French 1996, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Nathan received his Ph.D. in Geography from U.C. Berkeley in Fall 2011 and joined us at PSU in January 2012. He has brought a focus on food systems to the Toulan School, drawing on his extensive research and professional experience in the US and abroad. Drawing on interdisciplinary methods (from social theory to GIS and soil sampling), his current work examines the origins of the contemporary urban agriculture movement and explores the possibilities of scaling up food production in the city. His dissertation research included an assessment of potential agricultural production in Oakland  and a study of soil contamination at over a hundred potential garden sites.

He is also currently a member of the Oakland Food Policy Council, and has been working with the City of Oakland to update urban agriculture zoning. He has also collaborated with local organizations on food systems assessments and farm-to-institution projects. Internationally, he has worked on sustainable agriculture projects in several francophone countries (Haiti, Senegal, and Mali, where he was a Peace Corps volunteer), and conducted trainings and agroecosystems assessments in Nepal, Bangladesh, Mexico, and Brazil.  

At the Toulan School, he will be expanding his research to the Portland Metro area, and will be teaching courses on urban agriculture and food systems, sustainable cities and regions, and urban ecology/urban political ecology. His research website is www.urbanfood.org.

Contact information:

Email: n.mcclintock@pdx.edu

Telephone: (503) 725-4064

Office: Urban Center 350E