James Daria

Cultural Anthropologist

About

Biography

Portrait of James Daria in front of a bookshelf

Dr. James Daria is a cultural anthropologist working on issues of labor and migration in the global food system. His work is centered on modern slavery, exploitation, and the labor and human rights of migrant farmworkers in North and Central America. Health, healing, and medical anthropology. Food studies.

Dr. Daria combines teaching, research, and activism to make academic knowledge accessible to the general public, as well as to his collaborators in the field.

He has been a member of the Spelman College faculty since 2022.

Education

2019
Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Oregon
2013
M.A., Anthropology, University of Oregon
2010
M.A., Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Chicago
2003
M.Ed., Literacy, University of Cincinnati
1999
B.A., Anthropology, University of Cincinnati