Professor of Geography
Geography, Sociology, History, and African-American Studies
Chicago State University
Chicago, IL, USA
Email: dblock@csu.edu Phone: 773-995-2310
Interest in CDE Collaborative
Daniel teaches in and directs a Community Development Certificate program.
Quick Bio
Daniel Block is Professor of Geography at Chicago State University, as well as an adjunct professor in the Departments of Preventive Medicine at Northwestern University. He has completed many food access studies, including the Northeastern Illinois Community Food Security Assessment, a large-scale food access study of the six-county Chicago metro area. He is author or co-author of several articles on the regulation and gendering of milk in the early twentieth century, foodways of the urban poor, and the book Chicago: A Food Biography. Much of his work focuses on community-university partnerships for food justice. He currently is a board member of the Chicago Food Policy Action Council, where he is coordinating an effort to evaluation to effects of the Good Food Purchasing Program in Chicago and Cook County. Dr. Block is a long-time member of both ASFS and AFHVS and is particularly focused on building bridges between the two organizations. He has served on the board of both organizations and is a past president of AFHVS. He currently is on the editorial board of Food, Culture, Society. He brings to the board an interest in crossing disciplinary and organizational boundaries, as well as a particular focus on partnerships with food justice and community organizations that are working to build more ethical, sustainable, and equitable food. He was most recently elected to the board in 2019.