Contributors

Meredith E. Abarca is the author of Voices in the Kitchen (2006, Texas A&M University Press), and is the co-editor of Rethinking Chicana/o Literature through Food (2013, Palgrave Macmillan) and Latin@s’ Presence in the Food Industry (2016, University of Arkansas Press). Her current project is El Paso Food Voices, an archive digital open source project, as well as the El Paso Food Voices podcast series.Tatiana Abatemarco, PhD, is director of the Food Security Innovation Lab at the Vermont Foodbank. She is passionate about fostering resilient food systems. Tatiana received her PhD in Natural Resources from the University of Vermont. She has previously taught at Bennington College, the University of Vermont, Green Mountain College, and Paul Smith’s College.Sohni Chakrabarti is an associate lecturer in English at the University of St. Andrews. She completed her PhD in English from the University of St. Andrews in 2022. She also has an MA in Modern and Contemporary English Literature from the University of Bristol and a BA in Psychology from the University of Pune, India. Her research critically examines the complex ways in which memory and nostalgia influence the imagination of identity, home, and belonging in contemporary American women’s narratives. She specializes in twentieth- and twenty-first-century American women’s writing, multiethnic literature, feminist theory, affect theory, memory studies, diaspora studies, and critical food studies.Ishita Dey is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology, South Asian University, Delhi. She works at the intersection of food, labor, and senses, and is working on a manuscript titled Sweet Excess.Anna Romina Guevarra is a professor and the founding director of Global Asian Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago. She is the author of the award-winning book Marketing Dreams, Manufacturing Heroes: The Transnational Labor Brokering of Filipino Workers (2010, Rutgers University Press).Spencer Harrington has worked as a wine salesman in Brooklyn since 2001. He has written on wine for Wine Spectator and Diner Journal, and his fiction was most recently published in Pangyrus.Meredith Kelling worked at restaurants in the Bay Area before pursuing a PhD in literature. She studies how domestic labor shapes Leftist women’s writing. Her work on Anne Moody is published in Food, Culture & Society, and she is writing a biography of Meridel Le Sueur.Dolly Kikon teaches in the Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research focuses on political ecology, Indigeneity, resource extraction, food, and militarization in India.Irina D. Mihalache is Associate Professor at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information. She researches and teaches in the areas of museum studies, food studies, community-based museum interpretation, and food’s material cultures. She co-edited Food and Museums (Bloomsbury, 2017) and The Bloomsbury Handbook of Food and Material Cultures (2023).Megan Moodie is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her essays on disability, ethnography, and creative practice have appeared widely across academic and popular publication venues, including the Los Angeles Review of Books, Film Quarterly, Cultural Anthropology, and SAPIENS.Maiko Nakamura is an associate professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan. Her research interests are twentieth-century British and Irish literature and culture, with a particular focus on nationalism and gender. She has also broadened her areas of interests to include queer feminism, popular culture, and fan studies.Rebekah Pite is a professor of history at Lafayette College. She writes histories of everyday life in Argentina and the Southern Cone, focusing on food and domestic work. Her latest prize-winning book is Sharing Yerba Mate: How South America’s Most Popular Drink Defined a Region (2023, University of North Carolina Press).Hugo Ribadeau Dumas is a doctoral student in Geography at CSH (Centre de Sciences Humaines) in Delhi, affiliated with EHESS, Paris. He studies the social and cultural shifts induced by urbanization, particularly in smaller urban settlements. Before academia, Ribadeau Dumas worked for a decade on urban development projects across India, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan.Jimmy Schwartz is a freelance commercial writer as well as a composting, mushroom-foraging, cancer-surviving, sustainably living dedicated husband and awestruck father of two. He is a past contributor to Gastronomica and has recently co-authored Hold to a Dream, a memoir of bluegrass icon John Cowan (2024, Backbeat Books).Debarati Sen is a cultural anthropologist and author of the award-winning monograph Everyday Sustainability: Gender Justice and Fair Trade Tea in Darjeeling (2017, SUNY Press). She teaches courses at University of Houston on food studies, labor studies, gender studies, anthropological theory, and South Asia.Emily A. Waterman, PhD, is an applied developmental scientist who aims to promote youth development through mixed-method research and evaluation. Waterman conducts research on risk and protective factors for violence as well as outcome and process evaluations of preventative interventions. She is a faculty member in developmental psychology at Bennington College.Seng-Guan Yeoh is an associate professor in social anthropology in the School of Arts & Social Sciences, Monash University Malaysia. He is an urban anthropologist who does fieldwork primarily in Malaysia, the Philippines, and Indonesia. He also makes ethnographic documentaries. Yeoh holds a PhD from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

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