Publications
“The Modern Curiosity Cabinet: Instagram and Kitchenalia,” The Recipes Project, “MAKERS AND MAKING,” September 2, 2025
“Eating breakfast like it’s 1774: American Girl Cookbooks, Gender, and Identity-Making Through Food History,” An American Girl Anthology (ed. Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler and KC Hysmith, University Press of Mississippi, 2025).
“Cheesesteak,” We Eat What? A Cultural Encyclopedia of American Regional Food (ed. Jonathan Deutsch, ABC-CLIO, 2018).
“King Cake,” We Eat What? A Cultural Encyclopedia of American Regional Food (ed. Jonathan Deutsch, ABC-CLIO, 2018).
“Shoofly Pie,” We Eat What? A Cultural Encyclopedia of American Regional Food (ed. Jonathan Deutsch, ABC-CLIO, 2018).
“Sub / Hoagie / Grinder,” We Eat What? A Cultural Encyclopedia of American Regional Food (ed. Jonathan Deutsch, ABC-CLIO, 2018).
“Saint Gall,” Oxford Companion to Cheese (ed. Catherine Donnelly, Oxford University Press, 2016). Winner: James Beard Award in Reference and Scholarship, 2017
“The Tao of Food,” Alimentazione, la sfida del nuovo millennio (Nutrition: The Challenges of the New Millennium). Alberto Michelini (Rome, Italy: L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2015). Second Edition. 66-67.
“Advertising and Marketing of Food,” Encyclopedia of Food Issues (ed. Ken Albala, SAGE Publications, 2015), 1-6.
research + academic contributions
Panel Chair, “Social Action Workshop,” “Re/Centering the Periphery: Reclaiming and Reenvisioning Intellectual Space in Folkloristics,” and “ Music and Song,” American Folklore Society Virtual Conference, October 2020
Co-Facilitator, “Nostalgia Picnic,” Association for the Study of Food and Society, University of Wisconsin, June 2018
Historical Consultant, “Forgotten Foods: Recipes from the NMAH Archives.” Franklin cake recipe, presented by Ashley Rose Young as part of “Cooking Up History” public programming and the 132nd American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Smithsonian National Museum of American History, 5 January, 2018.
Historic Educator, Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, MA - Historical interpreter in Freeman Farmhouse, demonstrating hearth cooking and women’s crafts. Experience with 19th century open hearth cooking, bake ovens, and historic butchering. 2015-2017
Research Assistant, “Teaching Food History in an Interdisciplinary Program,” presented by Kyri Watson Claflin. American Historical Association 129th Annual Meeting, Sheraton New York, New York, NY. 4 January, 2015.
Social Media Proposal/Creation of Social Media Pages, Graduate Association for Food Studies, 2014
presentations + invited talks
“‘Eating breakfast like it’s 1774’: Culture and Identity-Making in the American Girl Universe,” presented with KC Hysmith, Museum of Food and Drink, May 2025
“No Rules, Just Right, American Girls: American Girl Doll Cookbooks,” MZ PowerPoint Party, May 2025
“One Size Does Not Fit All: Designing Intentional Groupwork,” presented with Meryl Krieger, Linda Lee, and Adam Zolkover, eLearning Consortium of Colorado, April 2024
“Groups Can Work: Creating Effective Online Activities,” presented with Meryl Krieger, Linda Lee, and Adam Zolkover, Rutgers Online Learning Conference, Rutgers University, March 2024
“’I just make stupid grocery art’: a survey of modern food nostalgia art and its importance to cultural and racial identities,” Association for the Study of Food and Society, The Culinary Institute of America & New York University, June 2021
“Remembrance of Things (Re)Past: Applying History through Food,” Association for the Study of Food and Society, The University of Alaska Anchorage, June 2019
Guest Speaker, Foodways and Folklore, Introduction to Folklore taught by Linda Lee, University of Pennsylvania, Summer 2019
“Clutter and Quaintness: Collecting Kitchenalia in the Internet Age,” Graduate Association of Food Studies, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, October 2018
“The Simple Life: Food, Nostalgia, and Living History Museums,” Association for the Study of Food and Society, University of Wisconsin, June 2018
“Bannocks and Willow Tree Bark: Food, Medicine, and Feminism in Outlander,” Graduate Associate for Food Studies, Washington University, October 2017
Guest Speaker, Food Writing Undergraduate Writing Course taught by Tenaya Darlington, Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA, May 15, 2012.