Teresa Mares, PhD

Teresa Mares is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Vermont, where she has been a faculty member since 2011. She is also affiliated faculty with the Graduate Program in Food Systems. She received her PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Washington in 2010.

For the past two decades, Dr. Mares has been conducting ethnographic research on topics related to food security, immigration, labor, and food justice, both in the Pacific Northwest and in New England.

She is the author of Life on the Other Border: Farmworkers and Food Justice in Vermont (UC Press 2019) and co-author of Will Work for Food: Labor Across the Food Chain (UC Press 2025) in addition to numerous academic articles, book chapters, reviews, and essays. 

To contact Dr. Mares or to inquire about speaking engagements, please email tmares@uvm.edu