Editors
Atsuko Ichijo is Associate Professor in the Department of Politics, International Relations and Human Rights at Kingston University, UK. Her main research interest is in nationalism studies and she is the author of Food, National Identity and Nationalism (coauthored with Ronald Ranta, 2016, Palgrave) and Nationalism and Multiple Modernities: Europe and Beyond (2013, Palgrave). She is a member of the editorial team of Nations and Nationalism and a book series editor of the Identities and Modernities in Europe series (published by Palgrave).
Venetia Johannes completed her DPhil in anthropology at the University of Oxford in October 2015, where she also completed an MSc in social anthropology in 2011. The title of her doctoral thesis was Nourishing the Nation: Manifestations of Catalan Identity through Food, where she studied how Catalans use food and cuisine as a means of expressing their national identity. Previously she studied business management at the Royal Agricultural University (20072010), and she has worked in finance and marketing research. She is currently a research associate with the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at the University of Oxford. Her doctoral thesis is to be published under the title, Nourishing National Identity: Manifestations of Catalan Nationalism through Food (Berghahn Books) in 2019.
Ronald Ranta is a senior lecturer in politics and international relations at Kingston University, UK. His research focuses on nationalism and the politics of identity through two broad areas of interest. The first, which grew out of his PhD research on the Arab-Israeli conflict, examines the way in which Israeli national identity and culture were and continue to be constructed in relation to Palestinian identity and culture. The second area of interest concerns the relationship between food, nationalism, and globalization. As a former chef, he is particularly interested in how, in relation to globalization, food is conceptualized and promoted as national. He is the author of Food, National Identity and Nationalism (coauthored with Atsuko Ichijo, 2016, Palgrave) and From the Arab Other to the Israeli Self: Palestinian Culture in the Making of Israeli National Identity (coauthored with Yonatan Mendel, 2016, Routledge).
Authors
Emma-Jayne Abbots is a senior lecturer at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. Her research addresses the cultural politics of food, eating, and the body, with a particular focus on migration, gender and care, heritage and artisanality, and labor relations. Published books include The Agency of Eating (Bloomsbury, 2017), Why We Eat, How We Eat (Ashgate, 2013), and Careful Eating (Ashgate, 2015).
Isabel M. Aguilera Bornand is Professor at the Anthropology Department of the Tarapac University, Arica, Chile. She studied sociology at the University of Chile and has a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Barcelona. Publications include De la cocina al Estado nacin. El ingrediente Mapuche (ICARIA, 2016) ; Becoming Typical: a Genealogical Approximation to Merken Boom in Chile (RIVAR) .
Sarah Bak-Geller Corona (associate professor, Universidad Nacional Autnoma de Mxico) is an cole des Hautes tudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), cole Normale Suprieur (ENS), and Hong Kong University alumna, and currently teaches in the Institute for Anthropological Research (UNAM) in Mexico. Her main research interest is the political dimension of food practices in colonialist and nationalist contexts in Mexico and Latin-America (eighteenth to twentieth centuries). She participated in the UNESCO Chair World Food Systems and in various anthropological research projects on food heritage, ethnicity, and race. She is the author of Habitar una cocina (Inhabit a Kitchen), 2006.
Nicolas Fabien-Ouellet (MS, Food Systems Graduate Program, University of Vermont, 2017) is the author of Poutine Dynamics, a much-discussed paper in which he argued that labeling poutine as a Canadian dish is culturally appropriating Qubcois culture. Poutine Dynamics is part of his masters thesis titled Poutine, Mezcal and Hard Cider: The Making of Culinary Identities in North America. He is now the assistant director of Strategic Development for Montreals Public Markets.
Joy Fraser is a folklorist and is completing a book tracing the cultural history of haggis as a contested symbol of Scottishness. Her work has appeared in Contemporary Legend , Scottish Studies , Ethnologies , and Shima .
Liora Gvion is Professor of Sociology at The Kibbutzim College of Education in Tel Aviv, Israel, whose major fields of interests are the sociology of food and the sociology of the body. Her previous researches concerned cultural and political aspects of the Palestinian cuisine in Israel, the lesbian community, and the professional body.
Christine Knight researches contemporary food culture, focusing on popular nutrition discourses and dietary advice. She recently completed a Wellcome Trust Research Fellowship in Medical Humanities at the University of Edinburgh, investigating the negative stereotype of the Scottish diet within the United Kingdom. She is a visiting research fellow in science, technology & innovation studies, University of Edinburgh; the Food Values Research Group, University of Adelaide; and School of Health Sciences, Flinders University; and a board member of the Association for the Study of Food & Society.
Brandi Simpson Miller holds an MA in world history from Georgia State University (2015). She is a doctoral researcher at the Department of History at the School of Oriental and African Studies London. Her research interests include the study of the social history of Ghana, particularly the political aspects of global and local food practices from the precolonial period to Ghanaian independence.
Nevena Nancheva is Lecturer in Politics, International Relations and Human Rights at Kingston University London, and a researcher at the Centre for Research on Communities, Identities, and Difference. She has written on European integration, nationalism, national minorities, and refugee migration. Her research project, EU Migrants in the UK: Political Community, Identity and Security (201617) , was funded by the British Academy/Leverhulme Trust. She is the cofounder of an academic research network on EU migration (eu-migrants.net).
Mona Nikoli (PhD, Institute for Latin American Studies, Freie Universitt Berlin, 2014). In her PhD thesis Identitt in der Kche. Kulturelle Globalisierung und regionale Traditionen in Costa Rica (transcript, 2015), she examines the global-local relationship in the field of cuisine and eating habits as identity markers in Costa Rica. Her research interests include the anthropology of food and consumption, transnational studies and globalization, and the anthropology of Central America.
Claudia Raquel Prieto-Piastro is a doctoral researcher at the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at Kings College London. Her research areas include the study of nationalism, particularly the role of everyday practices in the construction of national identities.