Associate Professor & Extension Nutritionist
Department of Food Science and Nutrition
Address: 164 FScN
Phone: (612) 624-7288
Fax: (612) 625-5272
chassel@umn.edu

• Diversity in food and health epistemology
• Cross-cultural engagement

• AGRI 1000H: Native American Perspectives on Land Use and the Environment
• CSPH 5111 Ways of Thinking About Health
• AGRI 1902H:  Ways of Knowing and Science

Hassel, C.  (2007)  Can cross-cultural engagement improve the land-grant university?  J of Extension. 45(5) http://www.joe.org/joe/2007october/a7.shtml

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.

• Minnesota Extension Service Nutrition & Health - specialist support to Extension Educators focusing on diet/health and vital aging programming, and contribute to the Nutrinet newsletter
• Woodlands Wisdom Nutrition Project – work closely with a confederacy of six Tribal Colleges and the University of Minnesota to address chronic health issues in Native American communities through culturally-based food and nutrition programs of teaching, research and community connections
• Families That Work Outreach – work with urban and rural American Indian Communities to assist with developing nutrition education approaches that honor traditional foods and its relationship to land and human health.
• Medicinal Herb Network – work closely with this network, founded as partnership effort of small-scale medicinal herb growers and practitioners of Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) to communicate concepts of medicinal herb quality and to encourage locally grown, high quality medicinal herbs.