edited books
Bennett, Marek, Andy Kolovos, Teresa Mares and Julia Grant Doucet, eds. The Most Costly Journey: Stories of Migrant Farmworkers in Vermont Drawn by New England Cartoonists. (Middlebury, VT: Vermont Folklife Center, 2021).
selected academic articles and book chapters
Horowitz, Catherine and Teresa M. Mares. “Empowering Teens Through Food Justice: An Exploration of Youth Development Programs,” Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development (2025).
Mares, Teresa and Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern. “New Openings for Worker Justice in the Food System: A Call for Centering Labor in Food Justice,” forthcoming in Nurturing Food Justice, eds. Alison Hope Alkon and Julian Agyeman.
Isbell, Carina, Daniel Tobin, Teresa Mares, and Kristal Jones. “Seed Commodification and Contestation in US Farmer Seed Systems,” Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems (2024).
Mares, Teresa; Minkoff-Zern, Laura-Anne. “Worker Driven Social Responsibility in the Food System,” 2024. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Food Studies. Ed. Darra Goldstein. New York: Oxford University Press.
Spence, Emma H., Meredith T. Niles; Farryl Bertmann; Teresa Mares; and Emily Belarmino. “Higher rates of Food Insecurity and Stress Experienced by Food Systems Workers during the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Frontiers in Nutrition (2024).
Mares, Teresa and Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern. “The Essential Work of Feeding Others: Connecting Food Labor in Public and Private Spaces,” Agriculture and Human Values (2024).
Chang, Vera and Teresa Mares “Food Justice and Food Sovereignty.” In Ground Truths: Community-Engaged Research for Environmental Justice, eds. Chad Raphael and Martha Matsuoka.University of California Press (2024).
Ren, Qing, Bindu Panikkar, Teresa Mares, Linda Berlin, Claire Golder. “Food Justice in Vermont’s Environmentally Vulnerable Communities.” Agriculture and Human Values 40(2023): 1465-1479.
Junro Guo, Dan Tobin, and Teresa Mares, “Bhutanese-Nepali Refugee Gardeners and Their Seed Systems: Placemaking and Foodways in Vermont.” Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development 11.3 (2022): 197-210.
Horner, Catherine E, Cheryl Morse, Nell Carpenter, Karen Nordstrom, Joshua W. Faulkner, Teresa Mares, Eva Kinnebrew, Martha Caswell, Victor Izzo, V. Ernesto Méndez, Scott Lewins, Nils McCune. “Cultivating pedagogy for transformative learning: A decade of undergraduate agroecology education.” Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 5 (2021): 412.
Jessie Mazar and Teresa Mares, “Food is a Gift from the Earth: Food Sovereignty Among Migrant Farmworkers in Rural Vermont,” In Food Insecurity: A Matter of Justice, Sovereignty, and Survival eds. Tamar Mayar and Molly D. Anderson. (London: Routledge Press: 2020).
Lisa Meierotto, Teresa Mares, and Seth Holmes. “Introduction to the Symposium: The Well-Being of Latinx Farmworkers in a Time of Change,” Symposium on Farmworker Wellbeing in Agriculture and Human Values 37.1 (2020): 187-196
Teresa Mares, Naomi Wolcott-MacCausland, Julia Doucet, Andy Kolovos, and Marek Bennett. “Using Chiles and Comics to Address the Physical and Emotional Wellbeing of Farmworkers in Vermont’s Borderlands,” Symposium on Farmworker Wellbeing in Agriculture and Human Values 37.1 (2020): 197-208
Naomi Wolcott-Causland, Teresa Mares, and Daniel Baker. “Health by Mail: Mail Order medication Practices of Latinx Dairy Worker Households on the Northern U.S. Border ,” Symposium on Farmworker Wellbeing in Agriculture and Human Values 37.1 (2020): 225-236.
Teresa Mares, Naomi Wolcott-MacCausland, and Jessie Mazar. “Eating Far From Home: Latino/a Workers and Food Sovereignty in Rural Vermont.” In Food Across Borders, eds. Matt Garcia, E. Melanie DuPuis, and Don Mitchell. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2017), 181-200.
Teresa Mares, “Navigating Gendered Labor and Local Food: A Tale of Working Mothers in Vermont,” Food and Foodways. 25.3 (2017): 177-192.
Cecile Reuge and Teresa Mares, “Workplace Democracy and Civic Engagement in Vermont Food Cooperatives,” Working USA, The Journal of Labor and Society 19.2 (2016): 207-227
Amy Trubek, Cynthia Belliveau, and Teresa Mares, “Emergence and Repetition: Teaching Food and Culture Using a Foods Lab,” Journal of Pedagogic Development 6.1 (2016): 23-30.
Margarita Fernández, V. Ernesto Méndez, Teresa Mares, and Rachel Shattman, “Agroecology, Food Sovereignty and Urban Agriculture in the United States,” In Agroecology: A Transdisciplinary, Participatory and Action Oriented Approach, ed. V. Ernesto Mendez et. al. (Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2016), 161-175.
Teresa Mares, “Another Time of Hunger,” In Women Redefining the Experience of Food Insecurity: Life off the Edge of the Table, ed. Janet Page-Reeves (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2014), 45-64.
Teresa Mares, “Engaging Latino Immigrants in Seattle Food Activism,” InFood Activism: Agency, Democracy, and Economy, eds. Carole Counihan and Valeria Siniscalchi (New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2014), 31-46.
Teresa Mares, “’Here We Have the Food Bank’: Latino/a Immigration and the Contradictions of Emergency Food,” Food and Foodways 21.1 (2013): 1-21.
Teresa Mares, “Tracing Immigrant Identity Through the Plate and the Palate,” Latino Studies 10.3 (2012): 334-354.
Alison Hope Alkon and Teresa Mares, “Food Sovereignty in US Food Movements: Radical Visions and Neoliberal Constraints,” Agriculture and Human Values 29.3 (2012): 347-359.
Teresa Mares and Alison Hope Alkon, “Mapping the Food Movement: Addressing Inequality and Neoliberalism,” Environment and Society: Advances in Research 2.1 (2011): 68-86.
Teresa Mares and Devon Peña, “Environmental and Food Justice: Toward Local, Slow, and Deep Food Systems,” InCultivating Food Justice: Race, Class, and Sustainability, eds. Alison Hope Alkon and Julian Agyeman (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2011), 197-219.
Teresa Mares and Devon Peña, “Urban Agriculture in the Making of Insurgent Spaces in Los Angeles and Seattle,” In Insurgent Public Space: Guerrilla Urbanism and the Remaking of Contemporary Cities, ed. Jeffrey Hou (New York: Routledge Press, 2010), 241-254.
Teresa Mares, PhD 