About
Biography
Dr. James Daria is a cultural anthropologist working on issues of labor and migration in the global food system. His work is centered on modern slavery, exploitation, and the labor and human rights of migrant farmworkers in North and Central America.
Dr. Daria combines teaching, research, and activism to make academic knowledge accessible to the general public, as well as to his collaborators in the field.
He has been a member of the faculty since 2022.
2025 Teacher-Scholar Exemplar, Faculty Excellence Recognition Award, Office of the Provost, Spelman College.
Education
- 2019
- Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Oregon
- 2013
- M.A., Anthropology, University of Oregon
- 2010
- M.A., Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Chicago
- 2003
- M.Ed., Literacy, University of Cincinnati
- 1999
- B.A., Anthropology, University of Cincinnati