Books By Barrett P. Brenton - Author

Barrett P. Brenton is an associate professor of anthropology and associate director of the Center for Global Development at St. John’s University in New York. As a nutritional anthropologist he has conducted fieldwork in Peru, Ecuador, Kenya, Zambia, South Africa, and in Native American communities across the U.S.  His research interests include the paradox of childhood hunger and obesity, HIV/AIDS and food insecurity, and food policy related to the use of genetically modified organisms in sub-Saharan Africa. For nearly 10 years he was co-editor of the international journal Ecology of Food and Nutrition. John Mazzeo is an assistant professor of anthropology and is affiliated with the Masters in Public Health Program at DePaul University.  His research interests include livelihood systems, food security, health and HIV/AIDS and he has conducted fieldwork in Zimbabwe, Haiti and the Bahamas.  He work in Zimbabwe, between 2004 and 2006, examined the coping strategies of rural households to the HIV/AIDS epidemic