Food Across Disciplines
Welcome to Food Across Disciplines (FAD)!
FAD is a faculty-led program initiative in American Culture Studies that provides a collaborative space for faculty, postdocs, and graduate students to explore food through interdisciplinary pathways, approaching content from a myriad of lenses such as nutritional science, sustainability, cultural anthropology, ethnicity and race studies, gender studies, colonialism, class, and violence, among others. Through a justice-oriented approach, FAD brings together academics from a broad range of disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, ethnic studies, cultural studies, AFAS, writing, and more.
We aim to address the numerous pathways in which access to food becomes a method of control, a means of creating malnutrition, the enacting of racism in underprivileged communities, and fodder for unethical practices in global supply chains. With the overall goal of promoting just, fair, and equitable labor, health and life practices, FAD also hopes to bring faculty, students, staff, and community members together to share meals as we examine how food connects, controls, and contains the key to a more equitable future.
People:
Chair: Dr. Sabnam Ghosh, Lecturer in AMCS and AAS
Co-Chairs: Kasey Grady, Senior Lecturer, College Writing Program
Dr. Erika Conti, Senior Lecturer in Italian, RLL
Treasurer: Dr. Erika Conti, Lecturer in Italian, RLL
Communication: Dr. Rebeca Cunill, Senior Lecturer in Spanish, RLL
Dr. Kasey Grady, Senior Lecturer College Writing and English
Spring Event Coordinator: Dr. Melissa Ritchey, Postdoctoral fellow Anthropology
Contact:
Dr. Sabnam Ghosh, sabnamghosh@wustl.edu
Dr. Kasey Grady, kaseygrady@wustl.edu
Dr. Erika Conti, econti22@wustl.edu
