Geographer. Seedkeeper. Chaotic gardener.
Christian Brooks Keeve, Floridian and aspiring cryptid, does a lot of things with seeds and with the people who care about them. They completed their BA in Environmental Sciences & African-American Studies at Northwestern and their MS in Geography at the University of Wisconsin. Their research has recently focused on in situ agrobiodiversity conservation through seedkeeping and historic plant collections, and has turned towards living and lively archives as well as the local and regional landscape dynamics of participatory plant breeding and seed grower networks. Further interests ooze into Black Geographies, Queer Geographies, Political Ecology, Vegetal Geographies, Historical Ecology, other things probably. As well as an academic, they're an educator, workshop facilitator, and seed grower for multiple catalogs, including Truelove Seeds, Ujamaa Cooperative Farming Alliance, Experimental Farm Network, and Two Seeds in a Pod. But really they just like reading comics, tending to plants, and growing food. Photography by Emmanuel Fields Affiliations, obligations... Dept. of Geography (University of Kentucky) Research Assistant for Dr. Priscilla McCutcheon Nonbinary Botany (Hudson Valley Farm Hub) Research Assistant for K Greene Heirloom Gardens Oral History Project (Princeton University) Graduate Project Manager Truelove Seeds Truelove Seeds Listening Project Ujamaa Cooperative Farming Alliance Co-coordinator. History, Culture, & Research working group Co-coordinator. Seed & Farm Operations working group American Studies Association Student Councilor. ASA National Council Grad Liaison. ASA Environmental Justice Caucus |
Recent Stuff
Paper presentation at American Studies Association 2023 in Montreal
Panel: "Bearing Fruit"
Panel: "Bearing Fruit"