Methods Dispatch: Grocery Shop-Alongs
A phone full of photos of shelves full of food. Photo by Ariana Gunderson. Ariana Gunderson Greetings from the field! I’m in Leipzig, Germany for a year to…
Tag: Food Studies
2025 Christine Wilson Graduate Award Winner!
Rikki Brown in the field. Photo by Rowan Twine. SAFN is pleased to announce that the 2025 winner of the Christine Wilson Graduate Student Award is Rikki Brown,…
Collaborating Bodies: Community Gardens and Food Forests in Central Texas
Almost every aspect of life on earth interacts with soil. Soils are old. Soils take time to develop from their parent material. Soils embody life itself. Yet, the…
Wait, Pasta with Yogurt? On Food, Storytelling, and Migration
Pasta with yogurt, photo by Elif Birbiri Elif BirbiriYork University Do we still tell food stories to each other? About what we cook, what we miss, and what…
2025 SAFN Student Research Award Winner!
SAFN is pleased to announce that the 2025 SAFN Student Research Award winner is Mandy Muise. Muise is a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology at Vanderbilt…
2025 SAFN Future of Food Fellow
D.H. We Amanda GreenSAFN President SAFN is excited to announce its 2025 Future of Food Fellows: D.H. We and Elif Birbiri. Started in 2023, the aim of this…
2025 SAFN Future of Food Fellow
Elif Birbiri Amanda GreenSAFN President SAFN is excited to announce its 2025 Future of Food Fellows: Elif Birbiri and D.H. We. Started in 2023, the aim of this…
SAFN Anthro Day Photo Contest, Part 2!
David Beriss Last week we announced the winners of this year’s SAFN Anthropology Day Photo Contest. You can read that post here. We had a tie for first…
What we should also consider when we discuss campus food security: Reflections from Covid and Hurricane Helene
Warren Wilson College, This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-ND Amanda GreenEastern Kentucky University On Friday September 27, 2024, Hurricane Helene dumped 12-20 inches of…
Review: Protecting industrial food profits by re-shaping science
Susan Greenhalgh. Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola. University of Chicago Press, 2024. 352 pages. Christy Spackman (Arizona State University) I recently returned from a tri…
Deadline Extended to Jan. 31 ASFS/AFHVS Conference
The deadline to submit proposals to the best food studies conference in North America has been extended to January 31! You still have time to submit a proposal.…
CFP: Graphic Gastronomy
Graphic Gastronomy Bandes Dessinées, Comics, Mangas and Food Cultures through History 15th Conference of the European Institute for the History and Culture of Food 3 – 5 December…
2024 Christine Wilson Graduate Award Winner!
Minny Lee We are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2024 Christine Wilson graduate award is Minny Lee, for her essay entitled “Korean Buddhist Temple Food:…
2023 Christine Wilson Undergraduate Award Winner!
Sophie Warth We are pleased to announce Sophie Warth as the winner of the 2024 Christine Wilson undergraduate writing award. She won with a paper entitled “First Meals…
CFP: Food for All: Media, Communication, and Food Democracy
4th Conference on Food & Communication Food for All: Media, Communication and Food Democracy University of Lille, France, 10-12 September 2025 The 4th Conference on Food & Commu…
Dining With Dogs: More-than-Human Relations in Food Media
Meaningful Mealtimes Human and nonhuman lives may have first become closely entangled with the rise of agriculture as we raised both animals to eat and other animals that…
Call for papers: Amsterdam Symposium on the History of Food 2025
On 5 and 6 June 2025, the 8th Amsterdam Symposium on the History of Food will take place at Allard Pierson, University of Amsterdam. This year’s topic is:…
Big Food’s Corporate Science Takes Firm Hold in China
Susan GreenhalghHarvard University The 1990s were tough times for the soda industry. In the United States, obesity rates were exploding. Public health critics pointed to sugary soda as…
ENVISIONING A WORLD WITHOUT HUNGER: A TRIBUTE TO ALAN SHAWN FEINSTEIN (1931-2024)
Ellen Messer On 7 September 2024 the world lost a champion hunger fighter and passionate promoter of education incentivizing kindness and community service. Alan Shawn Feinstein (ASF),…
CFP: ASFS/AFHVS 2025 Food Cultures and Social Justice
Food Cultures and Social Justice The Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society and the Association for the Study of Food and Society Annual Conference 2025 Call for Proposals…
Food Anthro for Middle Schoolers: All About Bread
Ariana GundersonIndiana University I recently had the opportunity to share the importance and joys of our discipline of Food Anthropology with sixteen middle schoolers who visited Indiana Universi…
Review: A Bold Return to Giving a Damn
Harris, Will (2023) A Bold Return to Giving a Damn. One Farm, Six Generations, and the Future of Food. With Amely Greeven. Viking. ISBN 9780593300473. 304 pages. Ellen Messer…
Food And Expertise: My Research on Oaxacan Food
Andrew MitchelPhD CandidateThe Ohio State University What does it mean to be an expert on food? This piece will argue that my scholarly work and the knowledge and…
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…