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Kathryn De Master is a Visiting Assistant Professor (3 years) at the Center for Environmental Studies, where her scholarship explores the intersections of the environment and society. Her primary focus is agriculture and includes explorations of alternative agro-food systems, organic farming, and global agriculture. Kathryn completed her Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where her dissertation involved an extended case study of the national Polish organic agriculture sector, in the context of Poland's 2004 accession to the European Union (EU). Her current work explores the applicability of EU-style "multifunctional" initiatives in New England. She is also engaged in a collaborative research project with students in the "Sustenance and Sustainability" course she teaches that will aim over the next 3 years to create a detailed social, environmental, geographic and political map of the Providence food system. Kathryn teaches courses in agro-food systems, environment and humanities, and an introductory environmental studies class.