Graduate Student
joymers@ad.unc.edu
Smith Building 002
About Joy
I'm interested in social and ecological contexts of food production and procurement, particularly in the form of traditional ecological knowledge. How is knowledge about the landscape shared within a community and across generations? How might this knowledge underlie agricultural practice? What happens when we look at food procurement/production as a spatial, ecological, landscape-based phenomenon?
Research Interests
Foodways, archaeobotany, food procurement and production, landscape and ecology, Mississippian agriculture, traditional ecological knowledge, GIS
Education
MA, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, 2022; BA, Washington University in St. Louis, 2018