Alex S. Korsunsky
- Dept:
- COLLEGE TRANSFER
- Title:
- FULL TIME FACULTY
- Campus:
- South Seattle College
- Office:
- RSB 158
- Phone:
- 206/934-5233
Courses
- Course Title: Introduction To Sociology
- Subject: SOC&
- Catalog #: 101
- Credits: 5
- Class Day: TTH
- Start Time: 09:30 AM
- End Time: 10:35 AM
- Building: SS - Olympic Hall (SSOLY)
- Room: 0206
- Section: 01
- Class#: 37772
- Course Title: Introduction To Sociology
- Subject: SOC&
- Catalog #: 101
- Credits: 5
- Class Day: ARR
- Start Time: ARR
- End Time: ARR
- Building: SS - Online (SSONL)
- Room:
- Section: 75
- Class#: 37773
- Course Title: Survey Of Anthropology
- Subject: ANTH&
- Catalog #: 100
- Credits: 5
- Class Day: TTH
- Start Time: 10:45 AM
- End Time: 11:50 AM
- Building: SS - Olympic Hall (SSOLY)
- Room: 0206
- Section: 01
- Class#: 37435
Personal Statement
Alex grew up in Salem, Oregon, and his teaching and research interests are rooted in the landscapes and peoples of the Pacific Northwest, with a particular interest in food and environmental justice, agriculture, labor, and migration. A cultural anthropologist by training, his doctoral dissertation focused on the experiences, aspirations, and environmental decision-making of Mexican immigrant farmworkers and farmers in Oregon. He has worked extensively with indigenous and farmworker organizations in the Willamette Valley, most notably with Capaces Leadership Institute's Anahuac Farm, and is excited to grow new roots and relationships here in Seattle.
Publications:
2020. “Back to the root? Mexican immigrant farmers, ethnographic romanticism, and untangling food sovereignty in western Oregon.” Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment. 42(2): 114-124.
2020. “Putting Workers on the Map: Agricultural Atlases and the Willamette Valley's Hidden Labor Landscape.” Western Historical Quarterly. 51(4): 409-437.
2020. “From el campo to campus and back again: affirmative action and the birth of a Chicano movement in Washington State.” Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies. 45(1): 23-52.
2019. “From Vacant Land to Urban Fallows: a Permacultural Approach to Wasted Land in Cities and Suburbs.” Journal of Political Ecology. 26(1): 282-304.
Degrees & Certificates
PhD - Anthropology - Vanderbilt University, 2023; MA - Anthropology - Vanderbilt University, 2019; BA - Sociology & Anthropology - Carleton College, 2012