Whether digging in the soil or digging in the archives, whether listening to local birdsong or local folk songs, whether exploring a watershed by canoe or regional food traditions in the kitchen, Tony’s personal and professional interests reflect an abiding fascination with the genius loci—the spirit of place—wherever that happens to be. Such themes have guided Tony’s research and teaching as a folklorist and environmental anthropologist interested in the intersections of food and foodways, subsistence technologies, and the socio-ecological systems in which these are embedded. While teaching and advising primarily in the Sustainable Food Systems program at Sterling, Tony also leads courses in the general and core curricula, the global field studies program, and participates in the coordination of classes offered through the School of the New American Farmstead.
Profile
| Award | Institution |
|---|---|
| PhD Cultural Anthropology | University of Tennessee |
| MA Folk Studies | Western Kentucky University |
| Presentations |
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| VanWinkle, Tony. (2017). “From Tanka Bars to Ted’s Montana Grill: Conservation, Revitalization, and Neoliberal Nostalgia in the Contemporary Bison Ranching Industry." Society for Applied Anthropology annual conference, Santa Fe, NM |
| VanWinkle, Tony. (2017). “Fire, Fences, and Fragmentation: Woody Encroachment, and the Ethnography of Community Composition on the Prairie-Plains.” Society for Applied Anthropology annual conference, Santa Fe, NM |
| VanWinkle, Tony & Micheal Stanton. (2016). “Precipitation Envy & Irrigation Frontiers: Negotiating Water Scarcity and Abundance in the Great Plains Border Zone.” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA |
| VanWinkle, Tony. (2015). “Ethnographic Research in the Upper Washita Watershed: Community Resource Relations & Climate Vulnerability.” Oklahoma NSF/EPSCoR Annual State Conference, Norman, Oklahoma |
| Friedman, Jack R., Jennifer Koch, Duncan Wilson, and Tony VanWinkle. (2015). “Modeling Qualitative Social Data: Collaborative Approaches for and Continuing Challenges to Crossing the Qualitative-Quantitative Divide.” Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Baltimore, MD |
| VanWinkle, Tony. (2015). “Nostalgia and Remembrance in the Cultural Economy of Southern Appalachian Urban Food Movements” Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA |
| VanWinkle, Tony. (2013). “Utopian Entrepreneurialism: Artisanal Politics, Sustainability, and the Moral Economies of Alternative Food-Related Businesses." Annual conference of the Society for the Anthropology of North America, Durham, NC |
| VanWinkle, Tony. (2009). “Eco-political Performance and the Life Cycle of Coal: Mobilizations, Demonstrations, & Tensions Following the TVA-Kingston Coal Fly-ash Disaster.” Annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, PA |
| VanWinkle, Tony. (2009). “A History of Resistance to Surface Coal Mining in Southern Appalachia.” Guest presentation for Mountain Justice Spring Break, Roane County, TN |
| VanWinkle, Tony. (2009). “The Politics of Knowledge in the Southern Coalfields: Mountaintop Removal, The NEPA Process, and Technocratic Discourse." Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Conference, Santa Fe, NM |
| VanWinkle, Tony. (2002). “It’s a Long Way to Harlan!:’ Coal Mining and Music and the Western Kentucky Coalfields”Annual International Country Music Conference, Nashville, TN |
| Publications |
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| VanWinkle, T.N. & J.R. Friedman. (2018). "American Indian Landowners, Leasemen, and Bureaucrats: Property, Paper, and the Poli-Technics of Dispossession in Southwestern Oklahoma." American Indian Quarterly 42 (2). |
| VanWinkle, Tony. (2018). "Weeds, Herbicides, Bodies: Emerging Entanglements in Toxic Agricultural Landscapes." Engagement [Peer-Reviewed Blog Post]. Retrieved from https://aesengagement.wordpress.com/2018/03/08/weeds-herbicides-and-bodies-emerging-entanglements-in-toxic-agricultural-landscapes/. |
| VanWinkle, T.N & J.R. Friedman. (2017) “What’s Good for the Soil is Good for the Soul: Scientific Farming, Environmental Subjectivities, and the Ethics of Stewardship in Southwestern Oklahoma.” Agriculture & Human Values 34 (3): 607-618 |
| VanWinkle, Tony N. (2017) “Savor the Earth to Save it!”: The Pedagogy of Sustainable Pleasure and Relational Ecology in a Place-Based Culinary Culture.” Food & Foodways 25 (1): 40-57 |
| VanWinkle, T.N & J.R. Friedman. (In Revision for Invited Resubmission). “Between Drought and Disparity: American Indian Farmers, Resource Bureaucracy and Socio-Environmental Vulnerability in Southwestern Oklahoma.” Human Organization |
| Pezzoni, Daniel J. (ed.), Tony N. VanWinkle, Deborah J. Thompson, & Elizabeth C. Stevens. (2009). The Architectural History of Watauga County, North Carolina. Watauga County Historical Society: Boone, NC |
| VanWinkle, Tony. “The Woman Who Planted Trees: Community Forestry and the Bowie Legacy in Fairview, TN.” The Tennessee Conservationist, October 2008 |
Accomplishments
Post-doctoral Research Fellow in Socio-Ecological Systems & Climate Variability, Center for Applied Social Research, University of Oklahoma, 2015-2017
Sterling College, Sustainable Food Systems Program, 2017-present
University of Tennessee, Department of Anthropology, American Studies Program, 2008-2015
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