Contributors

Rosetta Giuliani Caponetto is an associate professor of Italian at Auburn University, Alabama. Her areas of research interests include Italy’s colonialism in East Africa, Race and Ethnic Studies, Studies on the Future, the Italian American Diaspora, Food Movements and Activism, and Cultural Studies.Kathryn M. Fisher is an assistant program director and senior lecturer in Global Security Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Fisher researches security, identity, and insecurity, and holds a PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a Diploma in Culinary Arts from Le Cordon Bleu.Alyshia Gálvez is a professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at Lehman College and of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and the author of Eating NAFTA: Trade, Food Policies and the Destruction of Mexico (University of California Press, 2018) and two other books.Claudia Kreklau is an associate lecturer at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. She is the author of The Making of Modern Eating: How the German Middle Class Forged the Way We Eat, 1780–1910 appearing with Berghahn Books. She is the winner of the Sussman, Parker-Schmitt, and GSA Essay Prizes.Irina D. Mihalache is an associate professor at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information. She researches and teaches in the areas of museum studies, food studies, community-based museum interpretation, and food’s material cultures. She coedited Food and Museums (Bloomsbury, 2017) and The Bloomsbury Handbook of Food and Material Cultures (Bloomsbury, 2023).Geetha Sukumaran is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences at the University of Toronto Scarborough and works with the Feeding City Lab. She has a PhD in Humanities from York University. She is the cofounder of Conflict and Food Studies supported by YCAR, York University.Gabriel R. Valle is an associate professor of Environmental Studies at CSU San Marcos. He is the author of Gardening at the Margins: Convivial Labor, Community, and Resistance (Arizona Press, 2023) and coeditor of Mexican-Origin Food and Foodways: Decolonial Perspectives (Arkansas Press, 2017).