Gail Hollander, Ph.D., is associate professor of geography in the Department of Global & Sociocultural Studies at Florida International University. She previously served as graduate program director of the department.
Dr. Hollander's research interests include economic geography, agro-environmental conflict, food system theory, and feminist geography. She has published essays on these topics in refereed journals such as Cultural Geographies, Economic Geography, Geoforum, Global Food History, Journal of Peasant Studies, and Journal of Rural Studies. She has also served as principal investigator of the Miami Dade Urban Long Term Research Area at FIU, funded by the National Science Foundation.
In her book Raising Cane in the 'Glades: The Global Sugar Trade and the Transformation of Florida (2008), Dr. Hollander uses the "sugar question"—a label nineteenth-century economists coined for intense international debates on sugar production and trade—as a thread to stitch together past and present, local and global, in explaining Everglades transformation. The first study to situate the environmental transformation of the Everglades within the economic and historical geography of global sugar production and trade, Raising Cane in the 'Glades demonstrates that the development of Florida's sugar region was the outcome of pitched battles reaching the highest political offices in the U.S. and in countries around the world, especially Cuba.
Professor Hollander earned her Ph.D. in geography at the University of Iowa.