Deric ShannonDeric Shannon is Associate Professor of Sociology at Emory University's Oxford College. He completed his PhD at the University of Connecticut in Sociology with a graduate certificate in Women's Studies. His current teaching and research centrs on global political economy, the sociology of food, sustainability, and ecology. Shannon's books include Interdisciplinary Approaches to Pedagogy and Place-Based Education (ci-edited with Jeffrey Galle, 2017): The End of the World as We Know It? Crisis, Resistance, and the Age of Austerity (2014); and Political Sociology: Oppression, Resistance, and the State (with Davita Silfen Glasberg, 2011). Read More Read Less