All award presentations can be viewed on the GAFS YouTube Channel, here.
2025 Award Winners
Alex McIntosh Award for Ph.D. Dissertations
Winner: Nicholas Bascuñan-Wiley
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Stony Brook University
Sensing Palestine in Chile: Mobility, Belonging, and Power in the Comida Árabe Foodscape
Runner-Up: Büşra Eser
Kadir Has University (Turkey), Communication Studies
Falafel, Faith and Affect: Exploring Arab-Owned Restaurants in Istanbul
Bill Whit Award for Master’s Thesis
Winner: Haritha Govind
California State University Fullerton, Department of Anthropology
I am What I Eat: Vegetarianism and Identity Among South Indian Immigrants In California
View Haritha’s creative project here.
Runner-Up: Yasmin Houamed
SOAS, University of London, Department of Anthropology
Miscibility and Mores: Exploring Tunisian Olive Oil Ontologies
Learn more about Yasmin’s work with olive oil here.
2023 Award Winners
Doctoral Winner: Sarah Shultz
Memorial University of Newfoundland, Department of Folklore
Spice, Culinary Tourism, and Expressions of Whiteness in London, England and Nashville, Tennessee
Doctoral Runner-Up: Nino Bariola
University of Texas at Austin, Department of Sociology
“Comida de Indios” to Haute Cuisine. The Legitimation of Peruvian Gastronomy and its Social Consequences
Master’s Winner: Michela Siuni
SOAS, University of London, Department of Anthropology
A Tale of Dialogical Gastro-Connections: Kimchi Diplomacy in Great Britain Under Review
Master’s Runner-Up: Haley McFadden
Boston University, Department of Gastronomy
Table Retrenchment: Domesticity, Recipes, and Identity in Mormon Women, 1870-1970
2022 Award Winners
Doctoral Winner: Jean Tassin
ENS Lyon; East China Normal University, School of Social Development
Revenir à la terre : une sociologie des espaces marchands de l’agroécologie en Chine
Doctoral Runner-up: Nora Castle
University of Warwick, English and Comparative Literary Studies
Food Futures: Food, Foodways, and Environmental Crisis in Contemporary Science Fiction
Doctoral Runner-up: Lindsey Foltz
University of Oregon, Department of Anthropology
Saving Food in Bulgaria: Practicing Food Sovereignty in Everyday Life
Master’s Winner: Danielle Jacques
Boston University, Gastronomy
Rural Voices “at the Margins”: Place and Power in the Emerging Heritage Narratives of Bulgaria’s Food Tourism
Master’s Runner-Up: Julia Fine
University of Cambridge, Centre of South Asian Studies
Ecology and Labour in Bengal’s Salt Industry, 1780-1862
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