Glenn Stone is an anthropologist whose work centers on the politics and ecology of food and agriculture, including smallholder, alternative, and capitalist industrial agriculture and agricultural biotechnology (GMO’s).

He was educated at Northwestern University and the University of Arizona (PhD, 1988), where he studied under and collaborated with Robert Netting. His ethnographic fieldwork has been in Nigeria, India, the Philippines, and Appalachia, with additional research in prehistoric archaeology in the US Midwest and Southwest and in a biotechnology laboratory.

Author of one book and over 80 academic articles, he has been awarded fellowships by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the School for Advanced Research, and the Simon Guggenheim Foundation. He was awarded the Morley Medal for Achievements in Science by Western Reserve Academy, the prep school out of which he was thrown late in his senior year.

He is past president of the Anthropology & Environment Society. In 2022 he left Washington University after 27 years to become research Professor at Sweet Briar College in Virginia.

Biotechnology, Sustainability, Farming, Agriculture, Anthropology, Genetically modified organisms, Agricultural Development Environmental Science, Science, Environment,