Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Regional Food Studies at the University of Arizona). Carney uses her expertise in critical migration and diaspora studies, food studies, health equity and social inequality in life-story projects to collect information through interviews and film making-workshops on the Mexican border and Palermo (Sicily) to appreciate the social and cultural representation of 'home' at the first stage of arrival. The research team would benefit from a more extended collaboration.
Her expertise in anthropology, as well as her field-work in border zones, will enrich, theoretically and methodologically each group meeting and she will be especially operational in leading the “border-home: between Mexico and the United States” session.