Food Studies

The Food Studies Working Group builds on momentum in scholarship currently taking place at Concordia in the areas of anthropology, chemistry, communication studies, design, geography, history, marketing, nutrition, psychology, religion, and sociology.  As the issues within food studies expand ever wider, encompassing social justice, public health, international development, fair trade, agricultural policy, media and celebrity, marketing, cultural theory, and beyond, this Working Group will continue to explore the interconnections that make food such a vital subject for scholarship, as well as develop opportunities to share its work with the greater community. Events will include public talks, invited speakers, graduate student workshops, and a potential film and discussion series. 

Past collaborations among group members have included the Domestic Foodscapes conference (2008) and a special issue of Material Culture Review (2009) featuring selected papers from the conference, guest lectures by Howard Moskowitz and Warren Belasco (2009), hosting the Canadian Association for Food Studies assembly at Congress 2010, the first-ever interdisciplinary food studies course at Concordia, FFAR 298C: Encultured Eating (2010), and the launch of a Concordia Food Studies website. 

Please visit Food Studies for information on all of our activities.

Rhona Richman Kenneally, (Design & Computation Arts), Organizer

Members: 

Rhona Richman Kenneally (Organizer), Design and Computation Arts (FOFA)

Guppy Ahluwalia-Lopez, PhD student (Humanities)

Simon Bacon, Exercise Science (A&S)

Ann English, Chemistry and Biochemistry (A&S)

David Howes, Sociology and Anthropology (A&S)

Satoshi Ikeda, Sociology and Anthropology (A&S)

Norma Baumel Joseph, Religion (A&S)

Christine Jourdan, Sociology and Anthropology (A&S)

Jordan LeBel, Marketing (JMSB)

Elizabeth Miller, Communications Studies (A&S)

Jessica Mudry, General Studies Unit (ENCS)

Alan Nash, Geography, Planning, and Environment (A&S)

Sylvia Santosa, Exercise Science (A&S)

David Szanto, PhD student (SIP)

Barbara Woodside, Psychology/CSBN (A&S)

Anya Zilberstein, History (A&S)