The Sophie Coe Prize in Food History 2023
See below for a call for applications for the Sophie Coe Prize. While technically a history prize, anthropologists have won over the years. Indeed, as noted below, Dr.…
See below for a call for applications for the Sophie Coe Prize. While technically a history prize, anthropologists have won over the years. Indeed, as noted below, Dr.…
Congratulatory cake! Green Tea Milles Crepe Cake by Wishing Town Bakery, New Orleans, photo by David Beriss Amanda Green (SAFN Award Committee) and Jennifer Jo Thompson (SAFN President)…
Join SAFN at AAA this November in Seattle! We look forward to welcoming Dr. Mythri Jegathesan as our invited speaker at the SAFN + C&A reception on Friday night at Zaika restaurant just…
Pamela RunestadAllegheny College I presented a framework for building a Food Studies syllabus at the Umbra Institute in Perugia, Italy on June 10, 2022. Thanks to positive responses…
Jennifer Jo Thompson, University of Georgia (SAFN President) After three years of planning, postponing due to COVID-19, and then planning again, “Cultivating Connections”—the 2022 joint annual mee…
Haspel, Tamar (2022) To Boldly Grow. Finding Joy, Adventure, and Dinner in Your Own Backyard. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons. 231 pp. Ellen Messer (Tufts University) How many…
Campanale, Joe, and Joshua David Stein. Vino: The Essential Guide to Real Italian Wine. Clarkson Potter, 2022. 320 pp. ISBN 9780593136140. Jesse Dart, Arizona State University, Swette Center…
Produce, photo by David Beriss Jane Dyson, Craig Jeffrey, Gyorgy Scrinis and Sara Guest (The University of Melbourne) University and college food insecurity is a flourishing area of…
Rachel Black (Connecticut College) This exhibit runs from May 19, 2021 – Dec. 31, 2023. Is food the most unifying element of the Mediterranean? By focusing on foodways…
Local food or not? Photo by David Beriss David Sutton In this fifth installment of interviews with anthropologists about their work on food I talk with longtime friend…
See below for a call for applications for the Sophie Coe Prize. While technically a history prize, anthropologists have won (or been commended) by the prize juries over…
Segnide J. Guidimadjegbe Oregon State University I was born and raised in Benin, a West African Country that is used to be called “Dahomey.” Very young, my sibling…
This opportunity at the NYBG should be of interest to readers of FoodAnthropology. Note that there are other opportunities as well. Visit https://www.nybg.org/learn/humanities-institute/research-…
SAFN is pleased to announce that in conjunction with the Graduate Association of Food Studies (part of the Association for the Study of Food and Society) we will…
Sucharita Kanjilal, 2021 Student Research Award Winner SAFN is pleased to award the 2021 Student Research Award to Sucharita Kanjilal for her project, “A homemaker’s diary: Caste, clas…
Tea for clowns in Russia. Photo courtesy of the author, all rights reserved. Editor’s Note: This is part of a series of postings by students in a graduate…
EUROPEAN INSTITUTE FORTHE HISTORY AND CULTURES OF FOOD After you attend the ASFS/AFHVS conference in May 2022, it might be worth heading over to France for this conference.…
See below for the CFP for the best annual food studies conference in North America, which will take place next May in Athens, GA. Note that SAFN will…
David Beriss Today was day one of this year’s best little food conference. Organized by the Association for the Study of Food and Society, the Agriculture, Food and…
Rhubarb and radishes! Photo by David Beriss The deadline (June 15) for SAFN’s annual graduate and undergraduate paper awards is fast approaching. If you are a student, now…
Editor’s Note: We recently published the winners of our first annual SAFN photo contest. There are, of course, interesting stories and research projects tied to the photos, which…
SAFN recently announced the 2020 winners of our student awards. The undergraduate Christine Wilson paper award went to Adele Woodmansee, for her paper “‘It is Pure Criollo Maize’:…
SAFN is happy to announce that the winner of the 2020 Christine Wilson Award for an Undergraduate Student is Adele Woodmansee of Harvard University for her paper “’It…
Call for Abstracts: 2021 Joint Annual Conference of: The Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS) Agriculture, Food & Human Values Society (AFHVS) Canadian Association fo…