2023 Awards
In order to celebrate and discuss the rich and diverse research showcased in this year’s stellar dissertations, we will be throwing an online event, Thursday, January 25, 2024 13:00EST. It will be the occasion for our winners and runners-up to present their passionate research.
Please join us, Thursday, January 25, here: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/81828353412
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 Awards
We are thrilled to announce the winners of our first annual Distinguished Food Studies Doctorate Dissertation and Master’s Thesis Awards!
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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