Jan Dutkiewicz

My research focuses on the political economy of the food system, with a particular interest in its environmental and public health impacts. Over the past few years I have been working on two major projects in this area. The first, Feed the People!, co-authored with Gabriel Rosenberg, is a book that envisions a more just and sustainable food system. The second is a monograph about the politics of American corporate meat production. My research on these topics has also been published in journals including Lancet Planetary Health, Nature-Food, Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, Journal of Cultural Economy, and Food Ethics. My secondary research focus is international relations, with a core interest in epistemology, truth claims, and the diffusion of ideas in global politics. I also (very sporadically) write about sport.

My writing has been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, Foreign Policy, WIRED, The Washington Post, Vox, and The Wall Street Journal. I am a Contributing Editor at The New Republic.

I hold a Ph.D. and MPhil in Politics from the New School for Social Research and an MA in International Relations from Victoria University, and most recently was a Policy Fellow at Harvard Law School. Previously, I held the Connie Caplan Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University and was a Post-Doctoral Researcher with the Swiss National Science Foundation. My work has been supported by a Doctoral Award and other grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), an Ira Katznelson Dissertation Fellowship from the New School for Social Research, and a Graduate Student Fellowship at the Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies. I have been a Visiting Fellow at Wesleyan University, the University of California-Santa Barbara, and the Martin School at Oxford University.

Book

2026     Jan Dutkiewicz and Gabriel Rosenberg. (2026) Feed the People!: Why Industrial Food is Good and How to Make it Better. Basic Books.

Selected scholarly publications 

2024     (Letter) Jennifer Jacquet, Becca Franks, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Walter Sanchez-Suarez, Jan Dutkiewicz, et al. “Support US OCTOPUS Act to keep octopuses wild.” Science. 385: 721-722.DOI:10.1126/science.adr3813

2023     Cleo Verkuijl, Jan Dutkiewicz, Laura Scherer, et al. “FAO’s 1.5°C roadmap for food systems falls short.” Nature Food. doi: 10.1038/s43016-024-00950-x

2023     Jan Dutkiewicz & Jan Smolenski. “Epistemic superimposition: the war in Ukraine and the poverty of expertise in international relations theory.” Journal of International Relations and Development. 26(4): 619-631.

2023     Jochen Krattenmacher, Paula Casal, Jan Dutkiewicz, et al. “Universities should lead on the plant-based dietary transition.” The Lancet Planetary Health. 7 (5), e354-e355

2022     Dwayne Holmes, David Humbird, Jan Dutkiewicz, Yadira Tejeda-Saldana, Breanna Duffy, and Isha Datar. “Cultured Meat Needs a Race to Mission, Not a Race to Market.” Nature Food. 3: 785–787.

2021     Jan Dutkiewicz & Elan Abrell. “Sanctuary to Table Dining? Cellular Agriculture and the Ethics of Cell Donor Animals.” Politics and Animals. 7(1): 1-15.

2021     Justin Bernstein & Jan Dutkiewicz. “A Public Health Ethics Case for Mitigating Zoonotic Disease Risk in Food Production.” Food Ethics. 6(9): doi: 10.1007/s41055-021-00089-6

2021     Jan Dutkiewicz and Jonathan Dickstein. “The Ism in Veganism: The Case for a Minimal Practice-Based Definition.” Food Ethics. 6(2): doi: 10.1007/s41055-020-00081-6

2020     Raychel Santo, Brent Kim, Sarah Goldman, Jan Dutkiewicz, et al. “Considering Plant-Based Meat Substitutes and Cell-Based Meats: A Public Health and Food System Perspective.” Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. 4:134. doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2020.00134

2020     Jan Dutkiewicz. “Uncertain Hog Futures: Life, Death, and Arbitrage on the Factory Farm.” Journal of Cultural Economy. 13(3): 278-289.

2018     Jan Dutkiewicz. “Transparency and the Factory Farm: Counter-Activism and Agritourism at Fair Oaks Farms.” Gastronomica: The Journal of Critical Food Studies. 18(2): 19-32.

2015     Jan Dutkiewicz. “Important Cows and Possum Pests: New Zealand’s Biodiversity Strategy and (Bio)Political Taxonomies of Introduced Species.” Society & Animals. 23(4): 379-399.

2015     Jan Dutkiewicz. “Pretzel Logic.” Space and Culture. 18(1): 25-38.

2013     Jan Dutkiewicz. “‘Postmodernism,’ politics, and pigs.” PhaenEx. 8(2): 296-307.