Howard Rosing is the Executive Director of the Steans
Center at DePaul University. He is a faculty member in Community Service
Studies and affiliate faculty member in Geography, Sustainable Urban
Development (MASUD and Community Psychology and co-directs MASUD.
Dr. Rosing is a cultural anthropologist whose research focuses on urban food
access, economic restructuring, community food systems, and food justice
movements in Chicago and the Dominican Republic. He is currently completing a
citywide study of community garden yields in partnership with Neighborspace,
Chicago's land trust for community gardens. Dr. Rosing is actively
engaged in scholarship on service-learning and community-based research as
pedagogies. He co-edited (with Nila Ginger Hofman) Pedagogies
of Praxis: Course-based Action Research in the Social Sciences (Jossey-Bass,
2007) and has authored and co-authored a number of articles on service-learning
pedagogy and community engagement in higher education. Dr. Rosing is also
co-author (with Daniel Block) of Chicago:
A Food Biography (Rowman and Littlefield). He holds a
Ph.D. in Anthropology from the State University of New York-Binghamton.