Michael Broadway was born in London, England. He obtained a degree in Education from Nottingham University, a MSc from Birkbeck College, London University and a PhD in geography from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He has taught geograp...More
Michael Broadway was born in London, England. He obtained a degree in Education from Nottingham University, a MSc from Birkbeck College, London University and a PhD in geography from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He has taught geography at Wichita State University, SUNY Geneseo and Northern Michigan University. His research expertise has focused on the meatpacking industry's community impact. He is a co-author with Donald Stull of Slaughterhouse Blues: The Meat and Poultry Industry in North America (Cengage 2nd edition 2013) and is a co-editor of Anyway You Cut It: Meatprocessing and the Transformation of Rural America (University Press of Kansas 1995). In 2005 he was a visiting Fulbright Research Chair in the Department of Rural Economy at the University of Alberta, where he studied the impact of 'mad cow' disease on a rural community and the social changes accompanying the opening of a meatpacking plant in Brooks, Alberta. He is the author of over 80 journal and book chapters that most deal with the meat industry. More recently, he has published articles delaing with urban agriculture, slow food, food trails and coffeehouses in Portland, Oregon
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