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Craig A Hassel, PhD

Position: Associate Professor, Food Science & Nutrition
Organization: University of Minnesota

Office Address:
225 FScN, Del Code 6099
1334 Eckles Ave
Saint Paul, MN 55108

Office Phone: 612-624-7288
Office Fax: 612-625-5272
Email Address: chassel@umn.edu

Educational Background
• Ph.D. University of Arizona, Tucson Nutritional Sciences/Food Science, 1986
• M.S. University of Arizona, Tucson Animal Science/Nutritional Science, 1982
• B.S. Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana Nutritional Sciences, 1979

Brief Biography
Craig is an Associate Professor and Extension Specialist in the Department of Food Science & Nutrition at University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN. He has created a process of cross-cultural engagement by interacting with people who have ancient or ancestral forms of knowledge incoherent with scientific understandings.

This work broadens and reframes scholarship by including community-based knowledge from beyond the academy. Examples include: The Medicinal Herb Network, developing understandings of medicinal herb quality using principles of Chinese medical theory; local food system assessment with the Powderhorn/Phillips Cultural Wellness Center as a means to reclaim cultural understandings of food and health relationships, and Woodlands Wisdom, a proactive confederation of Land-grant Tribal Colleges from across the Upper Midwest, to develop a culturally-grounded food and nutrition curriculum. These projects also provide a means to transform classroom education through experiential learning pedagogy. For the past eight years he has taught a variety of courses, including Ways of Thinking About Health, Native American Ties to the Land, Ways of Knowing and Science. These courses use the developmental model of intercultural sensitivity and transformational learning theory as a theoretical basis to enhance learners¿ ability to accommodate diverse knowledge systems. He has been with the Center for Spirituality & Healing as an adjunct faculty member since 1998.

Teaching Areas
For the past six years Dr. hassel has taught a variety of courses, including /Ways of Thinking About Health, Native American Ties to the Land, Ways of Knowing and Science/, where learners develop their capacity to accommodate diverse knowledge systems.

CFANS 1902 Ways of Knowing and Science

CSPH 5111 Ways of Thinking About Health

CSPH 1001 Principles of Holistic Health and Healing

Research Interests
Cross-cultural engagement
Nutrition and health
Food system assessment
Intercultural sensitivity and competence

Selected Publications
Hassel, C. (2007) Can cross-cultural engagement improve the land-grant university? J of Extension (in press)

Hassel, C. (2006) Woodlands Wisdom: A Nutrition Program Interfacing Indigenous and Biomedical Epistemologies. Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior 38(2):114-120.

Hassel, C.A., Hafner, C.A., Soberg, R. and Adelmann, J. (2006) Medicinal Herb Quality in the United States: Bridging Perspectives with Chinese Medical Theory, in: /Eating and Healing/, A. Pieroni, ed., New York, Haworth Press.

Hassel, C. (2005) The craft of cross-cultural engagement. J of Extension
43(6) #6FEA1. _http://www.joe.org/joe/2005december/a1.shtml_

Garrido DJ, Auger S, Rendon S, Hassel CA. (2005) Nutrition through another lens: Indigenous knowledge in nutrition education. J Nutr Ed Behav 37(Suppl 1):S35.

Harala, K, Smith, C, Hassel, C, and Gailfus, P. (2005) New Moccasins:
Articulating Research Agendas through Interviews with Faculty and Staff at Native and Non-Native Academic Institutions. Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior 37(2):67-76.

Hafner, C.A., Hassel, C.A., Soberg, R., Adelmann, J., Fetch, C. (2004) Toward bridging perspectives with integrity. Reg. Chinese Herb. Med. J.
3(3):4-12.

Hassel, C.A. (2004) • •Hassel, C.A. Can Diversity Extend to Ways of Knowing? Engaging Cross-Cultural Paradigms. J. of Ext. 42(2):
_http://www.joe.org/joe/2004april/a7.shtml._

Hassel, C.A., Hafner, C., Soberg, R., Adelmann, J., Haywood, R. (2002) Using Chinese Medicine to understand medicinal herb quality: An alternative to biomedical approaches? Ag. & Human Values 19:337-347, 2002.