Trained as a sociologist of culture and organizations, his scholarship examines how environmental activism and campaigns for social justice impact food regulation and spur entrepreneurship in the food industry. Besides Organizing Organic , featured on Rorotoko, he is the author of a number of articles on religious food certifications, natural foods co-ops, and the practice of food democracy. In 2015, he launched a research project on environmental governance on the front lines of climate change, with a focus on the politics of coastal management in southeastern Louisiana.