Description: Department Seminar

Location: 368A Heady Hall

Contact: Katie Harris-Lagoudakis

For almost 30 years, Dr. Gundersen's research has concentrated on the causes and consequences of food insecurity and on the evaluation of food assistance programs, with an emphasis on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). His research has examined the causes of food insecurity among multi-generational households, American Indians and food bank clients. Furthermore, his research contributes to our understanding of the link between food insecurity and obesity, the negative health outcomes of food insecurity among seniors and its impacts on mortality and health care costs.

In addition to inventing the Map the Meal Gap, Dr. Gundersen also has the two most cited review papers in this area (Gundersen, Kreider, and Pepper, 2011; Gundersen and Ziliak, 2018), with the former recognized as the Outstanding Paper in the 2011 volume of Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy. Dr. Gundersen’s research has been supported by more than $25 million in external funding from over 30 grants and has been published in journals such as AEPP, Food Policy, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Nutrition and others. Dr. Gundersen has also held positions at the University of Illinois and Iowa State University.