Daniel Shattuck

Daniel Shattuck

PHD, MPH of Research Science, Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation
Chapter Leader: New Mexico SSN
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Shattuck leverages an anthropological skillset alongside implementation science approaches to conduct high-impact health disparities research and provide technical support for addressing the health of structurally vulnerable communities, particularly sexual and gender minority populations.

Contributions

Publications

"Threat, Contamination, and Renewal in the (Re)valorization of Authentic Italian Extra Virgin Olive Oil," Southwestern Social Science Association, 2017.

Explores the ways in which the social and economic value of extra virgin olive oil in Italy are produced through the foregrounding of biological, socio-economic, political, and cultural threat to its production by those producing and consuming the commodity. 

"Training Taste Buds: Producing Taste, Identity, and Ethics with Olive Oil," Association for the Study of Food and Society, 2017.

Examines the ways in which an ethic of local food is produced through publically-offered free courses on how to identify, taste, and evaluate high quality local extra virgin olive oil in Tuscany. Theorizes how different meanings of “good” are collapsed together to effectively align “good tastes” indicative of a specific locality (terroir) with “good morals and ethics.” 

"Expertise as Evidence of Authenticity in Tourist Encounters with Italian Extra Virgin Olive Oil," America Anthropological Association, 2015.

Uses three ethnographic cases of tourist encounters with extra virgin olive oil in Tuscany, Italy to show the ways in which different types of knowledge including transparency of the production process and expertise about taste are strategically leveraged to produce “authentic” experiences not only for tourists but consumers more broadly.

"Adulterated Oil, Adulterated Nation: Anxiety and the Production of Italian Extra Virgin Olive Oil," Sciences Po, 2015.

Argues that the anxiety expressed in the production of olive oil is not only an economic concern but that it is intimately connected to broader anxieties of the Italian nation concerning its place within Europe, its relationship to the Mediterranean, its own particular brand nationalism, and continued concerns over immigration.