Associate Professor
Political Science and International Relations, College of Arts and Sciences
Blodgett Hall 204b
516.877.4589
gray5@adelphi.edu
http://laborandthelocavore.com/
Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center (2006)
Introduction To The American Political System
Race And Politics
The Modern Presidency
Washington Semester Seminar
American Politics, Food Politics, Race & Ethnicity, Human Trafficking, Research Methods, and writing.
Gray's work focuses on low-wage, non-citizen workers in the agro-food industry and their political, social, and economic opportunities. Primarily focused on the power structures facing marginalized workers, her research interests lie at the intersection of labor, immigration, food studies, and nonprofit advocacy.
Margaret Gray (2014). Labor and the Locavore: The Making of a Comprehensive Food Ethic. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Winner of the Book of the Year Award from the Association for the Study of Food and Society (2014).
Winner of the Book of the Year Award from the Labor Section of the American Political Science Association (2014).
Brian Lehrer Show (2014). interview by Manoush Zomorodi. April 18.
REVIEWS
Johnson, Timothy V., Science and Society, 80(2): 257-259. 2016
Hinrichs, C. Claire. Agricultural History, 89(3): 458-459. 2015.
Cavanaugh, Patricia. (Reviewed with Eating Anxiety: The Perils of Food Politics by Chad Lavin.) Perspectives on Politics, (13)3: 837-839. 2015.
Magdoff, Fred. Green Left Weekly, 1064, August 11: 22. 2015.
Hedberg II, Russell C. Agriculture and Human Values, (32):159–160. 2015.
Getz, Christy. “Social Justice in Agriculture: Perspectives from France and the United States,” New Labor Forum, 24(1):119-124. 2015.
Agnotti, Tom. Progressive Planning, 202, Winter: 36-37. 2015.
Thompson, Jr., Charles. Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 12(1-2): 186-189. 2015.
Cope, Susan. Food Culture and Society, 18(2): 343-345. 2015.
Zerbe, Noah. Labor/Le Travail, 75, Spring: 300-302. 2015.
Guthman, Julie. Progress in Human Geography. 39(5): 674-677.
Sanger, Karen. Labor Studies Journal, 39(4): 324-325. 2014.
Anderson, L.V. “Limits of the Locavore,” Dissent Magazine (2014).
Gray, Margaret. “Food and Labor,” in Twenty Lessons in the Sociology of Food and Agriculture, eds. Maki Hatanaka and Jason Konefal. (pp. 182-199). New York: Oxford University Press. 2018.
Gray, Margaret. "Labor and Local Food: Farmworkers on Smaller Farms," in the Routledge Handbook of Food Ethics, ed. Mary Rawlinson.(pp. 344-353). New York: Routledge. 2016.
Gray, Margaret (2011). Movimento per un’alimentazione Sostenible ed Economia Politica del Lavoro (The Sustainable Food Movement and the Political Economy of Labor). In Federico Chicchi and Emanuele Leonardi (Eds.). Lavoro in Frantumi: Condizione Precaria, Nuovi Conflitti e Regime Neoliberista (Work in Crisis: Precarious conditions, New Conflicts and Neoliberal Regime). (pp. 38-46). Verona, Italy: Ombre Corte.
Gray, Margaret (2010). How Latin American Inequality Becomes Latino Inequality: A Case Study of Hudson Valley Farmworkers. In Paul Gootenberg and Luis Reygades (Eds.). Indelible Inequalities in Latin America: Insights from History, Politics and Culture. (pp. 169-192). Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Gray, Margaret (2007). Mechanics of Empowerment: Migrant Farmworker Advocacy. In Emory Eliot, Jasmine Payne, and Patricia Ploesch (Eds.). Global Migration, Social Change, and Cultural Transformation. (pp. 207-224). New York: Palgrave-MacMillan Press.
Keller, Julie, Julie Harrison and Margaret Gray. "Milking Workers, Breaking Bodies: Health Inequality in the Dairy Industry." New Labor Forum. 26(1):36–44, 2017.
Pole, Antoinette and Margaret Gray (2013), Farming Alone? What's Up with the "C" in Community Supported Agriculture. Agriculture and Human Values, (30), 85-100.
Gray, Margaret and Shareen Hertel (2009), Immigrant Farmworker Advocacy: The Dynamics of Organizing. Polity, 41(4), 409-435.
Gray, Margaret, Julie Keller, Adrienne DerVartanian, Molly Graver, and Mariah Hennen. “No Guests Allowed: Dairy Workers and the H2 Program.” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Washington DC, April 3-7, 2019.
Gray, Margaret. “Workers Who Don’t Go Home: Death and Confusion on Dairy Farms,” Latin American Studies Association XXXV International Congress, Lima, Peru, April 29-May 1, 2017.
Gray, Margaret (2016). “It’s Not an Accident: State Policy and Fatalities on Dairy Farms,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.
Gray, Margaret (2016). “Immigrant Labor, Food Politics.” Latin American Studies Association XXXIV International Congress, New York, NY.
Gray, Margaret (2015). “Dairy Dangers and Power Dynamics.” Empire and Solidarity in the Americas Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA.
Gray, Margaret (2015). Discussant. Discussant. American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Gray, Margaret (2015). “Cultivating Vulnerability and Invisibility: A History of Hudson Valley Farmworkers.” Labor and Working Class History Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC.
Gray, Margaret (2015). “Farm to Table Work: The Labor behind Local Food.” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
Gray, Margaret (2015). Critic. Author-Meets-Critics: The Last Best Place: Gender, Family and Migration in the New West by Leah Schmalzbauer. Eastern Sociological Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY.
Margaret Gray (2014). Labor and the Locavore: Paternalism as a Form of Labor Control. In Annual Meeting of the Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society. University of Vermont, Burlington, VT.
Margaret Gray (2014). Labor and the Locavore: The Making of a Comprehensive Food Ethic. In Labor and Employment Relations Annual Meeting. Portland, OR.
Margaret Gray (2013). Labor & the Locavore: Small Farms, Paternalism and Labor Control. In American Political Science Association Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL.
Margaret Gray (2013). Labor and the Locavore: Engaging Consumers in Farmworker Advocacy. In Labor and Employment Relations Association Annual Meeting. St. Louis, MO.
Margaret Gray (2013). Questioning the Agrarian Ideal: Local Food and Farm Labor. In Latin American Studies Association Annual Congress. Washington DC.
Pole, Antoinette & Margaret Gray (2011). What's up with the "C" in CSA? Examining community in Community Supported Agriculture. In Annual Meetings of the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society (AFHVS), Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS), & Society for Anthropology of Food and Nutrition. Missoula, MT.
Gray, Margaret (2010). Sustainable for whom? Social Justice and the Locavore Food Movement. In American Political Science Association Annual Meeting (pp. 21). Washington, D.C..
Gray, Margaret and Traci Levy (2008). Transnational Workers, Inequality, and Household Structure. In American Political Science Association Annual Meeting. Boston, MA.
Gray, Margaret and Shareen Hertel (2007). Immigrant Farmworker Advocacy: The Dynamics of Organizing. In The Latin American Studies Association XXVII International Congress. Montreal.
Gray, Margaret (2007). Reproducing Inequality on the Farm: Race, Power, and Hiring. In American Political Science Association Annual Meeting. Chicago.
Gray, Margaret (2007). Immigration, Race, and Job Replacement in the Agricultural Workplace. In American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. New York.
Gray, Margaret (2007). Organizing Low Wage Workers. In The Left Forum Annual Meeting. New York.
Gray, Margaret (2006). They Just Showed Up’: Ethnic Succession and Inequality in the Agricultural Workplace. In The Diaspora: African American/African, Caribbean, and Latino Legacies in the Northeast, The First World Alumni Chapter of SUNY New Paltz Alumni Association, Department of Black Studies, and Latin American Studies Program. New Paltz.
Gray, Margaret (2005). New York Farmworker Quiescence and Transnational Migrant Homes. In American Studies Association Annual Meeting. Washington, DC.
University of Toronto, Culinaria Program. March 12, 2019
Montclair State University, Political Science Department. February 13, 2019.
Mohonk Mountain House, Mohonk Consultations. “Pastures of Plenty? Food, Justice and Labor in the Hudson Valley.” Keynote. New Paltz, NY. November 5, 2018.
North Country Food Justice Working Group. Keene, NY. August 11, 2017.
Margaret Gray (2017, May). Oceanside Library. "The Trump Administration: The First 100 Days" young adult program. Oceanside, NY.
Margaret Gray (2017, April). Stony Brook University. Initiative in Historical Social Sciences.
Margaret Gray (2017, April). Hamilton College, Panel with Clare Hinrichs and Evan Lee Weissman, Clinton, NY.
Margaret Gray (2017, March). University of Hawaii and Manoa, Sociology Department, Honolulu, HI.
Margaret Gray (2017, February). The College of the Holy Cross, McFarland Center for Religion, Ethics, and Culture, Worcester, MA.
Margaret Gray (2016, November). Sarah Lawrence College Economics Lecture Series, Bronxville, NY.
Margaret Gray (2016, November). Yale University Sustainable Food Program, New Haven, CT.
Margaret Gray (2016, October). New York University, Department of Nuttrition and Food Studies, Panel: Social Justice on the Farm with Tracie McMillan (food writer) and Hector Tejada (farmer), New York, NY.
Margaret Gray (2016, September). Lafayette College, Department of History, Easton, PA.
Margaret Gray (2016, April). Bronx Climate Justice, Marble Hill, NY.
Margaret Gray (2015, December). New York University, Tamiment Library and Department of Food Studies, New York, NY.
Margaret Gray (2015, November). University of Southern Maine, Department of Economics, Portland, ME.
Margaret Gray (2015, November). Fashion Institute of Technology, Presidential Scholars Colloquium, "The Food Movement in NYC: Trends and Opportunities along the Food Chain," New York, NY.
Margaret Gray (2015, November). Culinary Institute of America, with Ruth Reichl, Hide Park, NY.
Margaret Gray (2015, October). Panel at immigration Conference. College at Old Westbury, Department of Politics, Economics and Law, Old Westbury, NY.
Margaret Gray (2015, October). Lafayette College, Department of Government and Law, Easton, PA.
Margaret Gray (2015, May). Labor and Employment Relations Association, Long Island Chapter Annual Spring Conference, Keynote Speaker, Huntington, NY.
Margaret Gray (2015, May). College of Staten Island, Certificate in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latina/o Studies Program, Staten Island, NY.
Margaret Gray (2015, April). St. Michael's College, Political Science Department, Burington, VT.
Margaret Gray (2015, April). University of Vermont, Nutrition and Food Science Department, Burlington, VT.
Margaret Gray (2015, April). University of Massachusetts Amherst, Labor Center and Sociology Department, Amherst, MA.
Margaret Gray (2015, March). Agrarian Action Network, Northampton, MA.
Margaret Gray (2015, March). Just Food Conference, Panel: “From Field to Fork: Food & Farmworkers Organizing for Justice,” New York, NY.
Margaret Gray (2014, October). St. John Fisher College, Rochester, NY.
Margaret Gray (2014, October). College of Staten Island, Certificate in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino/a Studies Program, Staten Island, NY.
Margaret Gray (2014, October). Brooklyn College, Department of Sociology, Brooklyn, NY.
Margaret Gray (2014, October). College of Old Westbury, C-Space, Westbury, NY.
Margaret Gray (2014, June). Magpie Book Store, Catskill, NY.
Margaret Gray (2014, April). Vassar College, Political Science Department, Poughkeepsie, NY.
Margaret Gray (2014, April). Food + Farming + Scale Panel. Food Book Fair, Brooklyn, NY.
Margaret Gray (2014, April). The Broken Food System. Rural and Migrant Ministry, NYU Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, and Riverside Church, New York, NY.
Margaret Gray (2014, April). Local Food, Local Justice: Farmworker Rights for a Sustainable Food System. Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY.
Margaret Gray (2014, March). Global Labor Migration and the Local Food Economy. Hofstra University Globalization Day, Hempstead, NY.
Margaret Gray and Irv Miljoner (USDOL) (2014, February). Who's Behind Your Food? Food Industry Workers Conditions and Concerns. United Federation of Teachers Social Studies Conference, New York, NY.
Margaret Gray (2013, November). Bard College Human Rights Project, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.
Margaret Gray (2013, October). University at Albany, School of Criminal Justice, Albany, NY.
Margaret Gray (2013, August). Roundtable: The Social Responsibility of APSA and the Profession. Siting and Engagement Committee. American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
Margaret Gray (2013, May). Low wage workers in New York. New York Labor History Association, Labor in the Classroom Conference, New York, NY.
Gray, Margaret (2012, March). Williams College Sustainable Food & Agriculture Program. Williamstown, MA.
Gray, Margaret (2011, September). Sustainable for Whom? Social Justice and the Locavore Movement. Culinary Institute of America, Hyde Park, NY.
Gray, Margaret (2011, April). Migrant Rights in an Era of Globalization: The Mexico-US Case. The University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration. Chicago, IL.
Gray, Margaret (2011, March). Whose Food Movement? Critical Questions, Brown University Taubman Center for Public Policy. Providence, RI.
Gray, Margaret (2010, November). Lavoro in Frantumi: Vita, Lavoro e Conflitto Sociale Nell’Orizzonte del Capitalismo Biopolitico (Work in Crisis: Life, labor and Social Conflict in the Era of Biopolitical Capitalism). University of Bologna, Department of Political Science, Bologna, Italy.
Gray, Margaret (2010, May). Farmworkers’ Rights and Preserving Small Farms: A Conversation about the Farmworkers Fair Labor Practices Act. Faith Leaders for Environmental Justice, New York, NY.
Gray, Margaret (2009, April). Hate Crimes and Immigration on Long Island, Latin American & Caribbean Studies Center at Stony Brook University. New York.
Gray, Margaret (2008, September). El Segundo Encuentro de Latinidades, Convenio Andres Bello. Tijuana, Mexico.
Gray, Margaret (2008, August). American Sociological Association Labor and Labor Movements Section mini-conference on Race, Labor, and Empire. Boston.
Gray, Margaret (2008, March). Discussant for Columbia University Seminar: Women and Society, (For a paper presented by Helena Schwenken.). New York.
Gray, Margaret (2007, December). Good Food Now, Just Food's Regional Summit on Food, Farms, and Community Health. New York.
Gray, Margaret (2007, November). Local Struggles: Immigrants, Latinos and Rights in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania, conference sponsored by the Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies, Rutgers University. New Jersey.
Gray, Margaret (2006, May). Inexorable Inequalities? New Perspectives on Latin American Inequalities, Plenary Fellows Workshop of the Rockefeller Residential Program, "Durable Inequalities in Latin America: Histories, Societies, Culture," Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Stony. New York.
Gray, Margaret (2006, March). Farmingville Revisited: Hispanic Immigration on Long Island, conference sponsored by the Humanities Institute at Stony Brook University. New York.
Gray, Margaret (2006, March). New Neighbors: Hispanic Migration and Immigration to Westchester County, conference sponsored by Fordham College of Liberal Studies. New York.
Gray, Margaret (2006, March). World Affairs Lecture, Fashion Institute of Technology. New York.
Gray, Margaret (2006, February). Sociology Department and the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center, Stony Brook University. New York.
Gray, Margaret (2006, January). Center for Ideas and Society, University of California, Riverside. California.
Gray, Margaret (2005, March). Cultural Studies Program, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. North Carolina.
Gray, Margaret (1969, December). Sustainable for Whom: Farmworkers and the Locavore Movement. Molloy College Institute for Lifelong Learning. Rockville Centre, NY.
POLICY REPORTS:
Gray, Margaret, Nina Donaldson, and Kelly Miller. "The New York Farmworker: Hours, Wages & Injuries." Amherst: UMass Amherst Labor Center, May, 2023.
Kallick, David Dyssegaard, Margaret Gray, and Olivia Heffernan. “Farm Workers Overtime Pay is Affordable and Long Overdue.” New York: Fiscal Policy Institute. May 28, 2019.
Gray, Margaret and Emma Kreyche. “The Hudson Valley Farmworker Report.” Migrant Labor Project, Bard College. October 2007.
OTHER JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS:
Gray, Margaret and Olivia Heffernan. “Cannabis: A New Frontier of Union Jobs.” New Labor Forum. May 2023.
Gray, Margaret, Sarah Horton, Vanesa Ribas, and Angela Steuss. “Food Justice and Immigrant Workers.” Gastronomica, 16(3):1-14, 2017.
Gray, Margaret. “Food Ethics and Farm Labor: Local Organic Food Not as Pure as Advertised?” Labor and Employment Relations Perspectives on Work Magazine, vol. 18: 14-17. 2014.
Gray, Margaret. “Ethical Food: Can Foodies Help Promote Farmworker Justice?” Progressive Planning, Fall 2013.
Decena, Carlos and Margaret Gray. eds. The Border Next Door: New York Migraciones, Social Text, vol. 24 no. 3 (88). Fall 2006. (Guest edited special issue of the journal.)
Decena, Carlos and Margaret Gray. “Introduction,” in The Border Next Door: New York Migraciones, Social Text, 24(3): 1-12. Fall 2006.
Decena, Carlos and Margaret Gray. “Putting Transnationalism to Work: An Interview with Filmmaker Alex Rivera,” in The Border Next Door: New York Migraciones, Social Text, vol. 24 no. 3 (88): 131-138. Fall 2006.
PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP:
Gray, Margaret, Kelly Miller, and Nina Donaldson. “Farmworker Rights Must be Respected.” Op Ed. Newsday. May 29, 2023.
Gray, Margaret and Olivia Heffernan. “Death of a Dairy Farm Worker Exposes Dangerous Conditions and Labor Abuse.” (Long article.) Documented. June 1, 2022. Spanish version: “La muerte de un trabajador expone el peligro y el abuso laboral en las granjas.” June 10, 2022.
Gray, Margaret and Olivia Heffernan. “For Chobani’s Fair Trade Certification to Live Up to Its Promises, We’ll Need Organized Labor.” (Long article.) Jacobin. January 31, 2022.
Gray, Margaret. “Why the State's New Wage Board Won't Hear from Farmworkers.” (Op Ed) Newsday. January 25, 2022. (Placed in Newsday hard copy as “State Hearings Lack Voice of Farmworkers” on January 27, 2022.)
Gray, Margaret and Olivia Heffernan. “Two Immigrants Sue New York Employer over Dangerous Farmworker Housing.” (Article) Documented. January 10, 2022.
Gray, Margaret and Olivia Heffernan. “Victoria en Los Campos (Victory in the Fields).” (Short Article) La Voz. November 2021.
Kallick, David Dyssegaard, Margaret Gray, and Olivia Heffernan. “Another Voice: Agricultural Workers Deserve Fairness in Overtime Pay.” (Op Ed) The Buffalo News. November 18, 2021.
Gray, Margaret and Olivia Heffernan. “What New York Farmworkers Have Earned: Pay Them for Overtime, Despite What Farm Owners Have Said in Unfair Hearings.” (Op Ed). The New York Daily News. October 2, 2020.
Gray, Margaret. “Remote Learning Started With Spring Training.” (Short Article) Adelphi University AAUP Chapter. May 14, 2020.
Gray, Margaret and Olivia Heffernan. “With Red Flags, Green Light Law not as Easy as 1, 2, 3.” (Op Ed). Innovate LI. December 16, 2019.
Gray, Margaret and Olivia Heffernan. “Buying Local Won’t Help Exploited Farmworkers.” (Long article.) Jacobin. November 16, 2019.
Gray, Margaret and Olivia Heffernan. “Nuevos Derechos para los Trabajadores Agrícolas (New Rights for Farmworkers).” (Short article.) La Voz. September 2019.
Gray, Margaret and Olivia Heffernan. “Care about Food? Care about Farmworkers.” (Op Ed.) The New York Daily News. May 31, 2019.
Gray, Margaret. “The Dark Side of Local.” (Long article.) Jacobin. August 21, 2016. (Reposted in In These Times as “Buying Local Doesn’t Mean You’re Paying for Workers’ Rights” August 25, 2016.)
Gray, Margaret. “Marching for Food Justice.” Politics/Letters, June 27, 2016.
Gray, Margaret. “Death & Dairy in New York State.” AU VU, Spring 2016.
Hirsch, Jennifer and Margaret Gray. “Labor Problems Are the Bitter Fruit of Farmers Markets.” Op-Ed. TakePart.Com, June 8, 2015.
Decena, Carlos and Margaret Gray. eds. The Border Next Door: New York Migraciones, Social Text, vol. 24 no. 3 (88). Fall 2006.
Decena, Carlos and Margaret Gray. "Introduction," in The Border Next Door: New York Migraciones, Social Text, vol. 24 no. 3 (88): 1-12. Fall 2006.
BOOK REVIEWS:
Gray, Margaret. Review of More Than Just Food: Food Justice and Community Change by Garrett M. Broad. Agricultural History. 91(1):119-120.
Gray, Margaret. Review of Food Chains, dir. Sanjay Rawal. International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, 8(2): 266-271. 2015. (Film Review.)
Gray, Margaret. Review of Conflicting Commitments: The Politics of Enforcing Immigrant Worker Rights in San Jose and Houston by Shannon Gleeson. Perspectives on Politics, 12(2): 480-481. 2014.
Gray, Margaret. Review of Human Rights and Labor Solidarity by Susan Kang. Labor Studies Journal. September: 259-261. 2013.
Gray, Margaret. Review of Why David Sometimes Wins: Leadership, Organization, and Strategy in the California Farm Worker Movement by Marshall Ganz and Streetwise for Book Smarts: Grassroots Organizing and Education Reform in the Bronx by Celina Su. Perspectives on Politics, vol. 8 no. 3: 952-954. September 2010.
Gray, Margaret. Review of America's New Working Class: Race, Gender and Ethnicity in a Biopolitical Age by Kathleen Arnold. Political Science Quarterly, vol. 124 no. 2: 359-360. Summer 2009.
2023: Adelphi University Faculty Development Grant
2022: The Episocopol Diocese of Long Island
2022: The Foundation for Systemic Change
2016: Adelphi University Faculty Development Grant
2012: Adelphi University Faculty Development Grant
2009: Adelphi University Faculty Development Grant
2005-2006: Rockefeller Post-Doctoral Fellow, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center, Stony Brook University.
Adelphi University Teaching Fellow, 2016-2017.
Long Island Labor and Employment Relations Association 2015 Award for promoting worker and immigrant rights on Long Island.
Nominated for the 2013 Teaching Excellence Award for a tenure-track faculty.
Omicron Delta Kappa Academic Advisor Award, 2012.
Winner (for Labor and the Locavore) of the 2014 Book of the Year Award from the Association for the Study of Food and Society.
Winner (for Labor and the Locavore) of the 2014 Book of the Year Award from the Labor Section of the American Political Science Association.