Sarah Elton

Dr. Sarah Elton researches at the intersection of health, ecosystems and food in the city. She foregrounds the human relationship to nonhuman nature in her work. Dr. Elton is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at X University (the university is being re-named) and is also appointed to the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. She is an academic fellow at the Centre for Critical Qualitative Health Research at the University of Toronto and is a member of the Centre for Studies in Food Security.

Her scholarly research has been published in Social Science and Medicine, Critical Public Health, Canadian Food Studies, Gastronomica, Environmental Humanities and is forthcoming in the Canadian Journal of Public Health. Her two award-winning books, Locavore: From Farmers’ Fields to Rooftop Gardens, How Canadians are Changing the Way We Eat and Consumed: Food for a Finite Planet are Canadian bestsellers.