Christopher Bosso
Professor of Public Policy and Political Science
Christopher Bosso’s areas of research and teaching interest are in food and environmental policy. His newest book is Why SNAP Works: A Political History – and Defense – of the Food Stamp Program (University of California Press, 2023). Previous books include Framing the Farm Bill: Interests, Ideology, and the Agricultural Act of 2014, and, as editor, Feeding Cities: Improving Local Food Access, Sustainability, and Resilience. Dr. Bosso also advises the undergraduate major in Food Systems Sustainability, Health, and Equity.
- Chief faculty marshal, University commencements and convocations
- 2006 Lynton Caldwell Award for best book in environmental politics and policy, for Environment Inc.: From Grassroots to Beltway, awarded by the Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy Section of the American Political Science Association (co-winner)
- 1988 Policy Studies Organization award for best book in public policy (co-winner), for Pesticides and Politics: The Life Cycle of a Public Issue.
- Why SNAP Works: A Political History – and Defense – of the Food Stamp Program (University of California Press, 2023)
- Framing the Farm Bill: Interests, Ideology, and the Agricultural Act of 2014 (University Press of Kansas, 2017)
- Feeding Cities: Improving Local Food Access, Security, and Resilience (Routledge, 2017)
- Governing Uncertainty: Environmental Regulation in the Age of Nanotechnology (Earthscan / Routledge, 2010)
- Environment, Inc.: From Grassroots to Beltway (University Press of Kansas, 2005)
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Education
PhD, 1985, Political Science
University of Pittsburgh -
Contact
617.373.4398 c.bosso@northeastern.edu @cjbossoboston.bsky.social -
Address
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360 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115 -
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Food Systems and Public Policy
PPUA 5270
This course explores the policy dimensions of the food system. It starts from a broad perspective about the food system and concludes with considerations of local and regional responses to its perceived failures. Along the way we consider its policy drivers, whether the imperatives generated by global trade regimes or the constitutional rules embedded in the U.S. system of government. Topics will include domestic and international politics of agriculture and food, sources of and responses to problems of food security, urban food systems, the politics of nutrition, and food system resilience in the face of disruption. Our purpose is to develop a clearer understanding of how politics shapes “food policy” and how politics can be leveraged for a food system that is more sustainable, resilient, and equitable.
