Name | Email | Department | Website | Research Interests |
| Julie Wasserman | jkwasser@indiana.edu | IU Geography | | Seed systems, agroecology, ethnobotany, food studies |
| Kane Ferguson | kaneferg@indiana.edu | Department of Spanish & Portuguese; Department of Anthropology; IUFI | | I am a PhD candidate in the Hispanic Literature program with a minor concentration in the Anthropology of Food. My research follows an interest in food both anthropologically and representations in contemporary US Latino narratives. My dissertation, “Culinary Negotiations of (Im)Migration & Exile: Identity and Foodways in Caribbean Diaspora Literature” focuses on the themes of eating and cooking as they dialogue with identity construction and notions of alienation and belonging. |
| Laura Seifers | | Geography Department | | Food and identity, community, Southwest cuisine, chiles |
| Lino Mioni | | Department of French and Italian | | Starting next semester I will start working on my dissertation on historical gastronomy and historical cookbooks of the Italian tradition from the 15th and 16th century. |
| Megan Betz | | Geography | | local food; urban agriculture; community orchards (ideas of community and multispecies understandings of community) |
| Rosie Eyerman | reyerma@iu.edu | M.P.H. in Behavioral, Social, and Community Health; M.A. in Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics | My topical interests are in food insecurity and nutrition in indigenous and displaced communities. My geographical areas of specialization is in South America, specifically in Peru working with Quechua speaking communities. |
| Wyatt Beckman | wyjabeck@iu.edu | IU-B School of Public Health; Indiana Healthy Food Access Coalition; Lawrence Community Gardens | I primary study health behavior, decisions, and their determinants throughout the food system. As a public health scholar, I have great interest in creating and supporting systems that enable all people to eat the good and wholesome food that supports a long, healthy, and happy life. |
| Irene Lee | ailli@indiana.edu | IU media school | | I am doing a market research on food. My plan is to initiate a food club on campus that teaches Americans to cook Asian food. |
| Glenn Brown | cheftimes2@comcast.net | Food & Beverage Director | | I believe food should be seen through the lens of Sustenance. |
| Madeline Chera | mchera@iu.edu | Dept. of Anthropology, IUB; Dept. of Sociology & Anthropology, IUSB | madelinechera.com | I am a cultural anthropologist focused on food, primarily in South India and the US. My current research explores the roles of foods and food-related practices construed as traditional, within new and changing cultural contexts. My focus is on the consumption side of the food chain, with particular concern for cooking, serving, eating, and public discourse. However, the relationships these activities have with wider food system issues of public health, environmental sustainability, and local and global political economy are also of central importance to my analysis. |
| Suriati Abas | sabas@iu.edu | Literacy, Culture and Language Education | | I did an ethnographic study on ethnic restaurants in Bloomington, IN. |
