Our Food Media Top 10
On our last day of #foodxmedia, we created a top 10 listicle to summarize what resonated most with my students.
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For My Students: My First 10 “Bad” Instagram Posts
My students’ Instagram lives made me reflect on mine, my first posts, and who I want to be on the app.
Food Media Syllabus
Through historic cookbooks, Instagram, and 30+ virtual guests, “Food Media” critically considers our global food system through media.
Thinking Through Food and Media
A panel synopsis on the intersection of food studies & media studies that explores key texts, concepts, challenges & a future research agenda.
ASFS 2019 at University of Alaska Anchorage + a Call to Action
A 2019 ASFS conference debrief, plus why the Alaska governor’s 41% cut to the university system matters for all of us.
Reflecting on the Southern Foodways Alliance & Bentonville, Arkansas
The SFA Summer Field Trip explored the food culture of Bentonville, Arkansas, a booming and blossoming city shaped by immigrants, corporate interests, and a deep sense of place.
CFP—You Are What You Post: Food and Instagram
Emily Contois and Zenia Kish welcome chapter proposals on the topic of food and Instagram for an edited collection.
Announcing a New Food History Fellowship at the University of North Texas
Jennifer Jensen Wallach and Michael Wise discuss the new fellowship, food studies at UNT, and what it’s like to live, work, and eat in Denton.
Pondering & Archiving #foodstudies18: AFHVS/ASFS Conference at UW-Madison
Read on for a debrief of the 2018 meeting of ASFS with AFHVS at UW-Madison.
Presenting My Students’ Final Project: Defining American Food
I’m pleased to share the restaurant reviews and interviews my Brown students wrote, working to define American food.
A Bit from the Dissertation: Acknowledgements + Abstract
A few words of summary and thanks from my dissertation, “The Dudification of Diet: Food Masculinities in Twenty-First-Century America.”
Garrett Broad Q&A on More Than Just Food: Food Justice & Community Change
Garrett Broad set out to critically examine how food justice functions, its limitations and contradictions, and how it could change the food system.
Q&A with Janis Thiessen, Snacks: A Canadian Food History
Combining food and labor history, Janis Thiessen tells the stories of independent Canadian producers of chips, chocolate, and candy.
Writing on Retro Microwave Cookbooks (& more!) for Nursing Clio
I’m thrilled to announce I’m now writing for Nursing Clio! My most recent essay explores retro microwave cookbooks alongside today’s mug cake trend.
Asking “What is American food?” with My Students
In “Food in American Society and Culture,” we ask and work to answer the polemic, complex, and contradictory question, “How do we define American food and how does food define Americans?”
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