Education:
PhD (comprehensive exam passed with distinction), MA, BA, Boston University, Boston, MA.
Professional Experience:
James Beard Award Judge; Assistant Director, Programs in Food and Wine, Boston University. Lecturer, Metropolitan College, Boston University. Open Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain. The Cambridge School of Culinary Arts, Cambridge, MA. Event Coordinator, Center for Millennial Studies, Boston University. Teaching Assistant/Teaching Fellow, History Department, Boston University. Intern: Old Sturbridge Village (Sturbridge, MA).
Awards and Grants:
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation “Food, Race, and the Humanities” (on behalf of ASFS) $103,000, 2023. Menu Research and Flavor Discovery Initiative research grant, 2023. Association for the Study of Food and Society, Local Event Grant “Circus of the Senses: A Symposium of Food and the Senses,” 2018. Menu Research and Flavor Discovery Initiative research grant, 2018. GRS Student Scholarship, Boston University, 2015. Menu Research and Flavor Discovery Initiative research grant, 2012. Travel Grant from the Boston University’s Charles R. Darwin Bicentennial Committee, 2009. Travel Grants from the Boston University MET College Dean’s Fund, 2005, 2007, and 2008. Graduate Student Teaching Fellow Scholarship, Boston University, 2003–2004. Travel Grant from the Boston University Graduate Student Organization, 2003. Travel Grant from the Institute for Medieval History at Boston University, 2000.
Co-Editor:
Food in Memory and Imagination: Space, Place and, Taste, Bloomsbury Publishing (2022). Introduction to Gastronomy, Cognella Publishing (2015). “Special Issue: Chocolate Case Studies in History and Culture,” Food & Foodways (2007).