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Katie Mott is an ethnographer whose work examines the intersections of work and labor, food and the environment, and technology. Her work has been published in Qualitative Sociology and Research in the Sociology of Work. Her current research investigates how grocery stores' adoption of new technologies is reshaping retail work. Katie is preparing a book manuscript from this work that illuminates how the degradation of retail grocery customer service work -- in large part via the implementation of new technologies and the expansion of online retail logistics -- undercuts retail grocery workers' dignity and satisfaction.

Katie is a sociology PhD candidate at Syracuse University, where she also received an MS in Food Studies in 2017. She spent the first half of her twenties in the physical sciences realm working as an environmental engineer. Katie's teaching interests and areas of expertise include work and labor, urban sociology, food studies, sociological theory, and qualitative methods. To learn more about Katie and her work, check out her .