The Frontiers of Food Studies

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Warren Belasco

Warren Belasco teaches American Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He is the author of Appetite for Change (1990), Meals to Come (2006) and Food: The Key Concepts (2008). He used to be editor of Food, Culture & Society, but now grows figs in Washington, DC. 6909 Fifth Street NW, Washington DC 20012, USA ([email protected]).

Amy Bentley

Amy Bentley is an associate professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health at New York University. She is the author of Eating for Victory: Food Rationing and the Politics of Domesticity, as well as several articles on such diverse topics as the politics of southwestern cuisine, a historiography of food riots, and the cultural implications of the Atkins diet. She is editor of A Cultural History of Food in the Modern Age (in press), and currently writing a cultural history of baby food. Bentley is also a co-founder of the Experimental Cuisine Collective, an interdisciplinary group of scientists, food studies folks and chefs who study the intersection of science and food. Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, New York University, New York, NY, USA ([email protected]).

Charlotte Biltekoff

Charlotte Biltekoff is Assistant Professor of American Studies and Food Science and Technology at the University of California, Davis where her research focuses on the cultural politics of dietary health. Her book, Eating Right in America: Food, Health and Citizenship from Domestic Science to Obesity is forthcoming with Duke University Press. She teaches courses on American food culture and new food product concept development. She also co-coordinates, with Carolyn De La Peña, the University of California Studies of Food and the Body Multi Campus Research Program and serves on the board of directors of the Association for the Study of Food and Society. Department of Food Science and Technology, UC Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA ([email protected]).

Psyche Williams-Forson

Psyche Williams-Forson is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland College Park and an affiliate faculty member of the Women's Studies and African American Studies departments and the Consortium on Race, Gender, and Ethnicity. She is Associate Editor of Food and Foodways journal and author of the award-winning Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power (2006). Her new research explores class, consumption and citizenship among African Americans by examining domestic interiors from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. 1104 Holzapfel Hall-Department of American Studies, University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742, USA ([email protected]).

Carolyn de la Peña

Carolyn de la Peña is Professor of American Studies, Director of the UC Davis Humanities Institute and Co-editor of Boom: A Journal of California. She also chairs the system-wide network of Humanities Center Directors and co-coordinates the Multi- Campus Research Initiative “Studies of Food and the Body” for the University of California. She has co-edited Re-Wiring the Nation: The Place of Technology in American Studies (2007), and written Empty Pleasures: The Story of Artificial Sweeteners from Saccharin to Splenda (2010), The Body Electric: How Strange Machines Built The Modern American (2003), and numerous articles on the history of Americans' efforts to achieve health through technologies. American Studies, UC Davis, 1321 Notre Dame Drive, Davis, CA 95616, USA ([email protected]).