Research Agenda
Claire's research agenda focuses on several areas:
Claire is not only a chef, she is also a trained ethnographer who combines in-depth fieldwork with theoretical, emergent analysis. Claire's work integrates audio, video, and other ethnographic tools with written narrative and analysis. Claire is a scholar practitioner who envisions research as part of her own process of professional inquiry.
- Food systems and sustainable communities.
- Aging, death and grief.
- Ethnography.
- Leadership and change.
- Disaster and recovery events.
- Meaning-making in critical change events.
- Social media and emerging technologies as tools of communication in critical change.
Claire is not only a chef, she is also a trained ethnographer who combines in-depth fieldwork with theoretical, emergent analysis. Claire's work integrates audio, video, and other ethnographic tools with written narrative and analysis. Claire is a scholar practitioner who envisions research as part of her own process of professional inquiry.
Comments From Others...
"Reading this dissertation catapults one into an Emerson greeting a Whitman at the beginning of a great career. I felt I was reading a scholar's gift to community, in how it identifies the questions, the topics, the approaches." Dr. Barbara Mossberg
"The sophisticated methodology, combining a range of ethnographic methods, facilitated the emergence of a multidimensional picture of meanings attached to food. A solid theoretical frame holds the dissertation together. Theory is interwoven throughout the consecutive chapters, highlighting how different dimensions of how people talk about food systems. This is visible in the eloquent quality of the narrative." Dr. Philomena Essed
"As with all things Claire, it is complex in substance and format but well worth the effort to climb the learning curve." Dr. Richard A. Couto
"The sophisticated methodology, combining a range of ethnographic methods, facilitated the emergence of a multidimensional picture of meanings attached to food. A solid theoretical frame holds the dissertation together. Theory is interwoven throughout the consecutive chapters, highlighting how different dimensions of how people talk about food systems. This is visible in the eloquent quality of the narrative." Dr. Philomena Essed
"As with all things Claire, it is complex in substance and format but well worth the effort to climb the learning curve." Dr. Richard A. Couto
