Announcing the Center’s New Executive Director: Dr. Mark Chatarpal

Dr. Mark Chatarpal is a Food Anthropologist whose teaching and research interests intersect within the fields of Food Studies, Caribbean Studies, and Indigenous Studies. His research focuses on how policymakers within the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) conceptualize the term ‘food security’ when formulating national food policy that is geared towards Indigenous communities and how grassroots Indigenous organizations mitigate them through the creation of district-based regulations that encompass their respective worldviews. His dissertation is titled; What do you mean by food security? The politics of agrarian policymaking in the Caribbean Community. He has over six years of teaching experience and seven years of applied anthropological research and food policy work with Indigenous communities in Guyana, Belize, and Ghana.