Faculty Member Since 2022
James Daria, Ph.D., is a Sociology and Anthropology Assistant Professor.
Dr. James Daria is a cultural anthropologist working on issues of labor and migration in the global food system. His work is centered on modern slavery, exploitation, and the labor and human rights of migrant farmworkers in North and Central America. Dr. Daria combines teaching, research, and activism to make academic knowledge accessible to the general public, as well as to his collaborators in the field.
Introduction to Anthropology
Food and Culture
Anthropology of Immigration
Anthropological Theory
Medical Anthropology
Food Justice Movements
Ethnographic Methods
Issues of labor and migration in the global food system. Modern slavery, exploitation and the human rights of migrant farmworkers in North and Central America.
2024 Zlolniski, Christian and James Daria. “El Programa H-2A en el Valle de San Quintín: Notas Desde el Campo. La Jornada del Campo. March 16, 2024.
2023 Daria, James & Anna Canning. “Certified Exploitation: Labor Rights Violations and Certifications in Mexico’s Agro-Export Industry.” Corporate Accountability Lab.
2023 Daria, James. “Rigged Elections: The Failure of Mexico’s New Labor Model to Protect Farmworker Rights.” Frontera Norte Vol. 35, Art. 13.
2022 Daria, James. “Fairwashing and Union Busting: Corporate Social Responsibility Programs in Mexico’s Agro-Export Industry.” Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos 38(3) Fall, 379-405.
2021 Daria, James. “The Conviviality of the Fandango: Living with Difference in the Music and Dance of Southern Veracruz, Mexico.” Transmodernity 9: 6 (Spring), pp. 46-69.