Department of Geography
at the University of Wisconsin – Madison

Anika M. Rice

Position title: PhD Candidate

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Email: amrice2@wisc.edu

Address:
Advisors: Dr. Matt Turner and Dr. Lisa Naughton

EDUCATION

MS, Geography, University of Wisconsin Madison 2021
           Thesis: “Pandemic-Era Agroecology in Guatemala: Economic solidarity and smallholder resilience to economic shock”
BA, Geography, University of California Berkeley.

INTERESTS

migration, land tenure, agroecology, feminist political ecology, seed saving in diaspora, Latin America, participatory action & community-based research approaches

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

  • Rice, A. M. (2025) “Feminist agroecologies in Guatemala during economic shock”. Agriculture and Human Values. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-025-10706-3
  • Turner, M., Rice, A. M., Fornof, E., & Ribot, J. (2025) “Putting Migration in Context: A Review of How Theory and Methods Shape Climate-Induced Migration Research Findings”. Frontiers in Climate, 7, 1549686. https://doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2025.1549686
  • Goldberg, Z. A., Norman, M. W., Croog, R., Rice, A. M., Kass, H., & Bell, M. (2024). “Return and repair: the rise of Jewish agrarian movements in North America”. Agriculture and Human Values, 1-18.
  • Rice, A. M., Einbinder, N., & Calderón, C. I. (2023). ‘With agroecology, we can defend ourselves’: examining campesino resilience and economic solidarity during pandemic-era economic shock in Guatemala. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 47(2), 273-305.
  • Dean, J. W., Rice, A. M., & Choi, L. M. (2023). Small-Scale Food Production in the Pandemic: Perspectives from Mexico and Guatemala/Producción de alimentos en pequeña escala durante la pandemia: perspectivas desde México y Guatemala. Journal of Latin American Geography, 22(2), 215-226.
  • Turner, M. D., Davis, D. K., Yeh, E. T., Hiernaux, P., Loizeaux, E. R., Fornof, E. M., Rice, A. M. & Suiter, A. K. (2023). Great Green Walls: Hype, Myth, and Science. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 48.
  • Rice, A.M. (2022) “En Tiempos de Pandemia: Guatemalan campesinos revalue bartering as a traditional practice.” LACIS Review, Issue #01, Summer/Fall 2022. https://lacisreveiw.project.wiscweb.wisc.edu/?p=201 
  • Rice, A. M., & Goldberg, Z. (2021). ‘Harvesting a participatory movement’: Initial participatory action research with the Jewish Farmer Network. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 11(1), 115-136.

PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP

  • Rice, Anika M. “Transnational fear and care: Maya K’iche’ women in Guatemala respond to US immigration crackdowns” Just Rural Futures. Rural Geography Specialty Group, AAG. June 30, 2026. https://justruralfutures.substack.com/p/transnational-fear-and-care-mayan
  • Goldberg, Z. & Rice, A. M. “What is a Jewish Seed? Conversations with growers of the hairy melon.” Jewish Seed Project Blog, June 27, 2022. https://www.jewishfarmernetwork.org/post/what-is-a-jewish-seed-conversations-with-growers-of-the-hairy-melon
  • Rice, Anika M. “Cattle, Displacement and Counterinsurgency in Guatemala: How is beef production linked to landscape change and social conflict?” Self-published, ARC GIS Story Maps Platform. November 2, 2020. https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/ecbb47db7b164ccf988eaa200c964e2a
  • Rice, Anika M. “We Don’t Own Nature: Coffee Producers and Diversification,” Tea & Coffee Trade Journal, April 2018, 16-21.
  • Rice, Anika M. “Women in Coffee Lead the Way: Agroecology in times of crisis,” Tea & Coffee Trade Journal, October 2017, 28-33.
  • Rice, Anika M. “Urban farm acts as a tool for growth,” The Berkeley Californian, Op-Ed. Jan 23, 2014.
  • Rice, Anika M. Made in the Shade: Bird Friendly Coffee, Map in Food: An Atlas, Guerilla Cartography, 2013, 34-35.

RECENT PRESENTATIONS/INVITED TALKS

  • Rice, Anika M. “The Complicated Relationship Between Climate Change and Migration,” Guest Lecturer in Geography 175: Climate Change, Climate Action: The Social Dimensions of Climate Change, Professor Maddy Kroot, University of Wisconsin Madison, April 23, 2026.
  • Rice, Anika M. “Gender and Migration in Guatemala: Two cases of women-led resistance,” Guest lecturer in Chicano Latino Studies/Geography/Gender & Women’s Studies 308: Latinx Feminisms: Women’s Lives, Work and Activism, Professor Almita Miranda, University of Wisconsin Madison, April 16, 2026.
  • Rice, Anika M. “Landscapes of Debt: Land Titling and migration in the Guatemalan highlands” in session “Migration and Environment: Political ecologies of mobility, land and climate change,” American Association of Geographers Conference, San Francisco, CA. March 2026. (Winner of Best Student Presentation Award, Rural Geographies Specialty Group)
  • Ana Gómez and Anika M. Rice, invited panelists. “Migrant solidarity and indigenous language justice in Guatemala, Mexico, and the US: a discussion with Promotores de la Liberación Migrante,” Center for Latin American Studies, Rutgers University. November 18, 2025.
  • Rice, Anika M. “Impactos de género de la migración y la deuda en Santa María Chiquimula, Totonicapán / Gendered impacts of migration and debt in Santa María Chiquimula, Totonicapán.” Guatemala Scholars Network Conference, Antigua, Guatemala. July 10, 2025.

TEACHING

  • Geography 339: Environmental Conservation, Teaching Assistant, Spring 2026
  • Geography 305: Introduction to the City, (ethnic studies course), Teaching Assistant, Fall 2025
  • Geography 101: Introduction to Human Geography (undergraduate writing course), Teaching Assistant Fall, 2021

GRANTS AND AWARDS

  • Carl and Lorena Sauer Award (PhD), Conference of Latin American Geography (CLAG), 2025
  • Mellon ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship, 2024-2025
  • Scott Kloeck-Jenson International Pre-Dissertation Travel Grant, UW-Madison, 2024
  • National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, 2020-2025
  • Morgridge Fellowship for Community Engaged Scholarship, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2023-2024
  • Nave Tinker Latin America Fieldwork Grant, LACIS University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2023
  • Foreign Language Area Studies Award for Maya K’iche’ language study, Summer 2022
  • 4W (Women & Wellbeing in Wisconsin & the World) Engagement Grant for Emerging Scholars, University of Wisconsin Madison, 2020-2021
  • Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems (CIAS) Fieldwork Mini-Grant, University of Wisconsin Madison, 2020
  • University of Wisconsin Madison, Helen Firstbrook Franklin Scholarship, 2019-2020
  • University of Wisconsin Madison, Institute for Regional and International Studies Summer Fieldwork Research Award, 2019-2020
  • National Geographic Early Career Grantee, “Migration, Women and Coffee Production: Changing roles on Guatemalan and Nicaraguan farms”, 2016-2017