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Triple Rigor: A JAFSCD special section celebrating Dr. Christine Porter's Work & life A collection of contributions for fostering transformation and celebrating our friend and colleague
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Christine Porter, Wyoming Excellence Chair and professor of community and public health at the University of Wyoming, centered her scholarship on strategies for community food systems to improve equity, health, democracy, and what she called “the capital-W Work” of social and food justice.
This collection of articles (festschrift) honors her and extends her concept of triple-rigorous research—ethical, epistemological, and emotional—as a framework for identifying truth and fostering transformation. Christine argued that the combination of all three types of rigor broadens and re-centers our view of what, how, and why we are researching: from components to systems, from projects to people, from problems to solutions, from study to action. |
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In this new JAFSCD special section, Triple Rigor: Celebrating Christine Porter’s Work and Life, 21 authors offer reflections and creative work about working directly with, learning from, or engaging in shared Work with Christine, or contribute peer-reviewed research applying or exploring triple rigor. Guest associate editor Rachael Budowle can be contacted at rbudowle@vt.edu.
SPECIAL SECTION CONTENTS
In Triple rigor: An introduction to the special section celebrating Christine Porter’s Work and life, Budowle and Porter (posthumously contributing) further outline the concept of triple rigor: ethical, epistemological, and emotional. They propose criteria for peer-reviewing triple rigorous research for further discussion in the JAFSCD community to support the journal’s transformational goals, particularly in research with communities, as way to help shift research practice.
Four peer-reviewed contributions embrace triple rigor and the capital-W Work: Other contributions include: -
An edited collection of first-person vignettes entitled Celebrating lessons and carrying on legacies from Christine M. Porter by her mentees, colleagues, collaborators, and friends (Provance et al., 2025). These share lessons and legacies about food and social justice, triple rigor, and more.
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The program brief, Groundwork for change: Dr. Christine Porter’s role in building the Wyoming Food Coalition (Duba, 2025), describes how Christine helped to catalyze its initial formation and organizational structure, including its ongoing emphasis on equity and sustainability.
The festschrift also re-shares Christine’s foundational work on triple rigor, including her original JAFSCD article on triple-rigorous storytelling (Porter, 2018), her co-authored JAFSCD article with Food Dignity graduate students on emotional rigor (Bradley et al., 2018), and her presentation to JAFSCD shareholders on triple-rigorous research (Porter, 2024).
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Closing the section, Christine’s posthumously published essay, Comfort, describes a vision of her house and bench in the meadow, where we can find her and be buoyed by her love now that she has walked on. This vision inspired the special section cover art, a linocut by Shannon Conk, “An Invitation: Christine’s Bench in the Meadow.”
SUMMARY AND MOVING AHEAD
The collected works exemplify Christine Porter’s argument that embracing triple rigor is the most truth-revealing and transformation-fostering way to do any research with stakeholders and communities. She also argues that it is the only way to do research that tackles wicked problems and contributes to the transformation of food and other systems—which is pivotal for JAFSCD and much of its readership. |
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We hope that this special section provides fertile ground for readers to join Christine on the bench to grow the meadow—connecting with and extending the Work to which she devoted her life with love.
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In a new JAFSCD special section, Triple Rigor: Celebrating Christine Porter’s Work and Life, 21 authors offer reflections and creative work about working directly with, learning from, or engaging in shared Work with Dr. Christine Porter (University of Wyoming). This collection of articles in her honor (festschrift) extends her concept of triple-rigorous research—ethical, epistemological, and emotional research—as a framework for identifying truth and fostering transformation.
Read about the legacy and impact of Dr. Christine Porter—an educator, colleague, and tenacious thinker—in this @JAFSCD special section (free as always): https://www.foodsystemsjournal.org/index.php/fsj/issue/view/vol15-issue1 |
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Images above in order of appearance: The cover of JAFSCD’s winter issue depicts Dr. Christine M. Porter’s vision of the bench where friends and loved ones could visit her into the future, which inspired this linocut print by Shannon Conk; portrait of Christine M. Porter, courtesy of the University of Wyoming, Department of Community & Public Health; and the linocut print by Shannon Conk. |
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