Contributors

Indira Arumugam is an anthropologist working in Tamil Nadu, South India, and among the Tamil diaspora in Singapore. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the National University of Singapore. She is working on a forthcoming book titled Visceral Politics: Intimate Imaginaries of Power in South India.Angela Babb is a critical human geographer who strives for food justice through research and activism. Angela is a research scientist at Indiana University’s Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, co-founder and director of the Critical Food Studies Lab, dog and turtle parent, candlemaker, and aspiring farmer.Megan Betz is a local food scholar, activist, and practitioner. She lives and works in Bloomington, Indiana, and is currently CEO/president of Mother Hubbard’s Cupboard, a local community food resource center. Her work and scholarship focus on building community around and shared ownership of our food resources.Evan Bowness Evan Bowness is a critical environmental social scientist and assistant professor of Community Food Systems at the Trent School of the Environment where he hosts the Towards Equity in Sustainability Transitions (“TEST”) Lab. He is a Research Associate at University of the Fraser Valley’s Food and Agriculture Institute and has a PhD from the University of British Columbia.Thiago Braga is a PhD candidate at the University of California Davis. His work lies at the intersection of anthropological theory, comparative philosophy, and art history, currently with a focus on the sociocultural registers of tea-drinking practices across China and Taiwan.Ajamu Amiri Dillahunt-Holloway is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at Michigan State University. In fall 2023, he will start as an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at North Carolina State University.Cristina Fernández Recasens is a lecturer at the University of Surrey. In their PhD, they proposed the incorporation of body movement for the teaching of literature. They have also coordinated several research projects related to oral history and undertaken further research in the fields of cultural and gender studies.Stuart Freedman is a final-year doctoral candidate at the University of Westminster. Originally from east London, his PhD deals with London working-class identity refracted through the area’s fading pie shops. For the last thirty years he has been a photographer and writer working extensively in the global south.Atlanta Grant is an Iroquois woman with mixed Huron-Wendat and German ancestry, originally from the traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Ojibwe, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples. Her master’s research at the University of British Columbia focuses on the cultural resurgence of Indigenous food-cycling practices (the careful and intentional practices that surround consumption of animals and plants) as the reinstatement of Indigenous natural law.Rick Halpern is a social historian whose work has focused on race and labor in a number of contexts. He also has written about meat and meatpacking, sugar and plantations, and regionalism. He is the Bissell-Heyd Chair of American Studies at the University of Toronto.Annie Koempel is an anthropologist and registered dietitian. She currently works at the American Board of Family Medicine as a qualitative scientist. Her research interests include disordered eating, rural health, and various topics within North American primary care.Angela McIntyre is a research associate and co-director at Simon Fraser University Centre for Collaborative Action on Indigenous Health Governance.Ellen T. Meiser, PhD, is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Hawaii at Hilo where she studies all-things food—from culinary workers to food media to foodways and more. She is also co-creator and co-host of The Social Breakdown, a free and accessible sociology podcast and learning resource.Lenore Newman is the Food and Agriculture Institute Director at the University of the Fraser Valley, where she specializes in agricultural innovation and policy. Her most recent book, Dinner on Mars (co-authored with Dr. Evan Fraser), was published in 2022 by ECW Press. She holds a PhD in environmental studies from York University.Sang-hyoun Pahk is assistant professor of sociology at Pacific University.Jaclyn Rohel is a 2022–2023 New Media Public Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto’s Jackman Humanities Institute. Her work on food and cities centers community-engaged research and experiential education. She has previously written on topics related to food provisioning, public culture, and markets. A member of Gastronomica’s Editorial Collective, Jaclyn works with the journal’s creative cluster and produces and co-hosts the Gastronomica podcast series on the Heritage Radio Network.Sarah-Louise Ruder is a PhD candidate and public scholar at the University of British Columbia’s Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability, and a researcher at the University of the Fraser Valley’s Food and Agriculture Institute. She is an environmental social scientist studying food systems and the politics of novel technologies.Julia Segal is a food design professor, researcher, and writer based in San Francisco and Toronto. She teaches restaurant design, design thinking, and storytelling, and consults with restaurants to design welcoming spaces. In her spare time, she bakes Montreal-style bagels and makes vermouth.Isis Smith, a Chicago native and Indiana University alumni, is hoping to continue making strides within the agricultural and food studies community, emphasizing deconstructing white supremacy. Outside of work you can find them indulging in good food, spending time with their two cats, gaming, or enjoying the outdoors.Diane Villadsen is a color-obsessed commercial photographer whose work explores surreal spaces and themes. She approaches every shoot from a design perspective, elevating ordinary scenes with thoughtful stylings and surreal compositions. She believes photography born out of passion, not formal technique, is often most compelling. She is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.Alexandra Welch is an art director and designer based in Brooklyn, New York. Propelled by a love of unfamiliar places and delicious food, she brings a magical world of color, texture, and concept into everything she creates.

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