Michelle Jurkovich
Biography
Dr. Michelle Jurkovich is an Associate Professor in the McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. A scholar of food security, global governance, and ethics, she is the author of Feeding the Hungry Advocacy and Blame in the Global Fight against Hunger (Cornell University Press, 2020).
Area of Expertise
>Food security, economic and social rights, ethics, international organizations, nongovernmental organizations
Degrees
California State University, Fresno (Smittcamp Family Honors College): B.A.
California State University, Los Angeles: MA
George Washington University: Ph.D.
Additional Information
Dr. Jurkovich has served as a Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress, a Visiting Scholar in the Global Food Ethics and Policy Program at Johns Hopkins University, a Visiting Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University, an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science and Technology fellow working in the Office of Food for Peace at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and a postdoctoral fellow at the Watson Institute of International and Public Affairs at Brown University. From July 2024-June 2025, she served as a policy advisor for the Office of Global Food Security at the U.S. Department of State.
For additional information on Dr. Jurkovich's ongoing research projects and her CV, see her website.