SAFN Awards: Undergrad and Grad Award Deadline March 31, 2024!
Texas State Fair Awards. Photo: David Beriss Amanda Green, SAFN President Welcome to the new year SAFN members! We want to draw your attention to SAFN’s Awards, which…
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Annual SAFN Anthropology Day Photo Contest!
The Pies are Back, New Orleans. Photo: David Beriss SAFN is once again organizing a food/nutrition photo contest for Anthropology Day (February 15). If you have food anthropology…
2023 Christine Wilson Graduate Award Winner!
Amanda Kaminsky SAFN is pleased to announce that Amanda Kaminsky is the winner of the 2023 Christine Wilson Graduate paper award! Kaminsky, a PhD student at the University…
2023 Christine Wilson Undergraduate Award Winner!
Hunter Calvert SAFN is pleased to announce that the annual Christine Wilson undergraduate paper award winner is Hunter McKenzie Calvert for his paper on “Relationships as Infrastructure: Unde…
2023 Thomas Marchione Food-as-a-Human-Right Student Award Winner!
We are happy to announce that the 2023 Thomas Marchione Food-as-a-Human-Right Student Award winner is Erica Zurawski (University of California Santa Cruz), with her project titled “Spatial F…
SAFN Student Research Award Winner!
Photo credit: Samantha Brown The 2023 SAFN Student Research Award goes to Samantha Brown for her project entitled, “Fermented Futures: The Place of Iginneq in Danish Fine Dining.”…
When the Syllabus Collides With War
Lunch at Stella Maris Cafe, Arabi, Louisiana. Photo: David Beriss David Beriss In planning my classes this year, I did not count on war. I am teaching Food…
AAA/CASCA 2024: Panels from SAFN and Beyond!
Ariana Gunderson Here is a schedule of all the SAFN events, panels, and food-oriented panels sponsored by other sections. For your easy reference, our events are also listed…
CFP: ASFS/AFHVS 2024 Right to Food—Food as Commons
The Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society and the Association for the Study of Food and Society Annual Conference Right to Food—Food as Commons 2024 Call for Proposals…
SAFN Future of Food Anthropology Fellows
Ariana Gunderson SAFN’s slate of awards are awarded annually to support students and scholars in the field of food anthropology. In 2023 we launched a new award, the…
Indigenous Varieties in Lebanon: An Embrace of Phoenician Terroir
Lebanese white grapes, for wine and arak. Photo: B for Bacchus. Samira BecharaUniversity of New Orleans I am a budding historian researching wine in Lebanon, particularly French policy…
Smileys in SA: Women’s Work, Social Value, and the complex story of “recycled meat”
Langa Township, Cape Town. Smoke billows as Yonela sears a sheep head with a hot metal rod, cleaning off any remaining wool. This is part of the cleaning…
Position Available!
The Department of Anthropology at SMU invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in Economic Anthropology. The position is at the rank of Assistant Professor. We are looking…
Knowing Food: SAFN at the 2023 ASFS/AFHVS Meeting
Jennifer Jo Thompson The 2023 joint meeting of the Association for the Study of Food in Society and the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society (ASFS/AFHVS) was held…
Association for the Study of Food and Society Racial Justice Research and Pedagogy Fellowships
Very exciting opportunities from our colleagues at the Association for the Study of Food and Society! As food studies scholars and practitioners, we are keenly aware of transnational…
The Household’s Basket: Households in a Basket, Part 2
Leonidas VournelisBaruch College, CUNY In part one of this essay, I briefly described the workings of the “Household’s Basket”, a policy by the Greek government designed to help…
The Household’s Basket: Households in a basket
Leonidas VournelisBaruch College, CUNY Editor’s note: This is part 1 of a 2 part essay. Like most EU countries during the past year Greece has been faced with…
Winners of SAFN’s 3rd Annual Anthropology Day Photo Contest!
David Beriss We are ready to reveal the winners of this year’s SAFN Anthropology Day photo contest! The weighty decision was reached by a panel made up of…
CFP AAA/CASCA: Multispecies Labor in Emerging Agricultural Practices
Paolina Lu Call for participation in a panel for AAA/CASCA 2023: Multispecies Labor in Emerging Agricultural Practices. In recent years, ethnographers have looked to agricultural settings, i…
Submit to SAFN’s column in Anthropology News!
“Throw us what you’ve got!” Photo by Ariana Gunderson. Ariana Gunderson Call for Pitches – SAFN’s Anthropology News Online Articles As the new Section Editor for SAFN, I…
SAFN AAA Networking!
This just in from the SAFN program committee. Please read the previous posting with the full call for panels and papers for the annual AAA/CASCA meeting in Toronto.…
Soup for Breakfast: Cambodia
Scott Alves BartonUniversity of Notre Dame The city was humid by midmorning. We were sweaty. The streets fragrant, alternately perfumed with lemongrass, turmeric, galangal or ginger. Often there…
Reminder: Third Annual Anthropology Day Photo Contest!
A quick reminder! The deadline for entering the 3rd annual SAFN Anthropology Day Photo contest is February 16. Details on how to enter are below. Fame and glory…
Graduate Journal of Food Studies seeks three co-editors
GRADUATE ASSOCIATION FOR FOOD STUDIES Editor’s note: We are reprinting this announcement, which we received a few days ago. This looks like a great opportunity for graduate students…