Author Jan Dutkiewicz, Assistant Professor at the Pratt Institute describes himself thusly...
I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science in the Department of Social Science and Cultural Studies at the Pratt Institute. I am a political economist in the classical sense: I study the ethical, political, legal, social, and environmental dimensions of economic activity. My research examines the design, production, circulation, and consumption of everyday commodities, with a primary substantive focus on meat and other food products and a geographical focus on the United States.Useless "brainiac" busybodies like this just cannot let people lead their normal, everyday lives. No, they must butt into every little corner of our lives and ruin them. He may seem like an obscure, inconsequential quack, but these ideas seep out of the academy and get traction, eventually leading to destructive things like CRT, BLM, and the "green new deal."My two primary projects are a monograph about the politics of American corporate meat production and a co-authored trade book envisioning a more just and sustainable food system. My academic research has been published or is forthcoming in journals including Lancet Planetary Health, Nature-Food, Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, Journal of Peasant Studies, Journal of Cultural Economy, and Food Ethics. I have also written about the politics and environmental impacts of food production and novel food technologies for publications including WIRED, The Guardian, The New Republic, The Washington Post, Vox, and The Wall Street Journal. I maintain a secondary research agenda on international relations, primarily focusing on epistemology, truth claims, and the diffusion of ideas in global politics. I have published on these issues in the academic press and in publications including Foreign Policy and The New Republic. I also (very sporadically) write about sport.
I hold a Ph.D. and MPhil in Politics from the New School for Social Research and an MA in International Relations from Victoria University, and most recently was a Policy Fellow at Harvard Law School. Previously, I held the Connie Caplan Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University and was a Post-Doctoral Researcher with the Swiss National Science Foundation. My work has been supported by a Doctoral Award and other grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), an Ira Katznelson Dissertation Fellowship from the New School for Social Research, and a Graduate Student Fellowship at the Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies. I have been a Visiting Fellow at Wesleyan University, the University of California-Santa Barbara, and the Martin School at Oxford University.