Name | 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. | |