Additional Campus Affiliations
Associate Professor, African American Studies
Fellow, Policy Design Lab, Agricultural and Consumer Economics
Associate Professor, Food Science and Human Nutrition
Affiliate, Social & Behavioral Science Institute
Recent Publications
Smith, B. J. (2026). The Women of Operation Breadbasket: A Lost Chapter in the Chicago Civil Rights Movement. Journal of Black Studies, 57(1), 96-118. https://doi.org/10.1177/00219347251386903
Smith II, B. J. (2026). Black Farm Boys: The Untold Story of the New Farmers of America. (Rural Studies Series). University of North Carolina Press. https://doi.org/10.1353/book.148129
Smith, B. J., Simon, J. W., Gwin, C. S., & McMillion, D. Y. (2024). “What does Ferguson mean for the food justice movement?”: Reading Black visions of food justice in times of social unrest. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 13(4), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2024.134.004
Kerr, R. B., Pendergrast, T. L., Smith, B. J., & Liebert, J. (2023). Rethinking Food System Transformation, Second Edition. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30484-2
Pendergrast, T. L., Smith, B. J., Liebert, J. A., & Kerr, R. B. (2023). Introduction to the symposium: Rethinking food system transformation-food sovereignty, agroecology, food justice, community action and scholarship. In Rethinking Food System Transformation, Second Edition (pp. 1-5). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-019-09952-z