New Books in Food Creators & Guests

Kennan Ferguson is a political theorist, Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, writer, and author of the book Cookbooks Politics.

Joshua Sbicca is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Colorado State University.

Robert Hellyer is an Associate Professor of History at Wake Forest University.

Hanna Garth is a sociocultural and medical anthropologist.

Clare Cady is a co-founder of the College and University Food Bank Alliance, Director of Research & Innovation at Single Stop, writer, and author of the book Food Insecurity on Campus: Action and Intervention.

Dr. Eli Wilson is an assistant professor of Sociology at the University of New Mexico, writer, and author of the book Front of the House, Back of the House: Race and Inequality in the Lives of Restaurant Workers.

John Cardina is a Professor in the Department of Horticulture and Crop Science at Ohio State University.

Hélène Jawhara Piñer is a chef and author.

Melanie Joy, PHD, EDM, is a psychologist, speaker, and organizational and relationship coach.Joy has written several books, but her best known is her first, "Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism," which was published in 2010.Joy is the founding president Beyond Carnism, a foundation with the mission of fighting the belief system that allows people to eat animals.Previously, Joy was a lecturer at the University of Massachusetts, where she taught privilege and oppression, psychological trauma, addiction, domestic violence, feminist psychology, and animal rights.Joy received her B.A. in Foreign Languagesfrom Harvard Extension School, her M.Ed. in Teaching from Harvard University, and her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Saybrook University.

Sam van Zweden is a freelance writer interested in experimental nonfiction, essays, mental health, body writing, food, and memory.

Psyche Williams-Forson is professor and chair of the Department of American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is the author of Taking Food Public: Redefining Foodways in a Changing World and the award-winning Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, & Power. Her latest book is Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America.

Mark Vicol is an assistant professor in the Rural Sociology Group at Wageningen University.

Dr. Ben Zeller is an Associate Professor of Religion at Lake Forest College.

Clarissa Hyman is a food & travel writer and Vice President of the Guild of Food Writers.

Kerry Trueman is a writer, and author of the book Let's Ask Marion.

Lindsay Gardner is an artist and author of the book Why We Cook.

Conor Picken is an Assistant Professor of English and the Faculty Director of the Compassio Learning Community.

Matthew Gavin Frank is a writer and author of the book, Flight of the Diamond Smugglers: A Tale of Pigeons, Obsession, and Greed Along Coastal South Africa.

Jon Keune is an Assistant Professor of South Asian Religions.