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Christy Spackman

Christy Spackman

Assistant Professor, School for the Future of Innovation in Society, College of Global Futures

christy.spackman@asu.edu

School for the Future of Innovation in Society
Arizona State University
PO Box 875603
Tempe, AZ 85287-5603

Titles

  • Senior Global Futures Scientist, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory
  • Assistant Professor, School for the Future of Innovation in Society, College of Global Futures
  • Assistant Professor, School of Arts Media and Engineering, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts

Biography

Christy Spackman is an assistant professor in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts. She studies the environmental and social impact of scientific and technological efforts to manipulate sensory experiences of smelling and tasting. The recipient of fellowships at New York University and the Ecole Normale Supérieure, as well as fellowships from the Social Science Research Council, the Mellon Foundation and American Council of Learned Societies, she’s writing “Making Nothing: the twentieth-century transformation of water.”

Education

  • PhD, New York University
  • MS, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • Culinary Certificate, Kendell College
  • BS, Brigham Young University

External Links

Journal Articles

In Press

El-Sayed, S., P. Borah and C. M. Spackman. The impact of temporary COVID-19 legislative moves on the ability of food enterprises to pivot in Arizona. Journal of Foodservice Business Research DOI: 10.1080/15378020.2022.2063620. (link )

2022

El-Sayed, S. and C. Spackman. 2022. Follow the ferments: Inclusive food governance in Arizona. Gastronomica 22(1):20-33. DOI: 10.1525/gfc.2022.22.1.20. (link )

2021

Kitch, S., J. McGregor, G. M. Mejia, S. El-Sayed, C. Spackman and J. Vitullo. 2021. Gendered and racial injustices in American food systems and cultures. Humanities 10(2):88. DOI: 10.3390/h10020066. (link )