ASFS Book Award Past Winners

2011
Tracey Deutsch, University of Minnesota, Building a Housewife’s Paradise: Gender, Politics, and American Grocery Stores in the Twentieth Century UNC Press, 2010 Carolyn de la Peña, University of California at Davis, Empty Pleasures: The Story of Artificial Sweeteners from Saccharin to Splenda UNC Press, 2010

2010
Janet Poppendieck, Hunter College, SUNY, Free for All: Fixing School Food in America, UC Press, 2010

 

Belasco Prize for Scholarly Excellence Past Winners

2011
Katharina Vester, American University, "Regime Change: Gender, Class, and the Invention of Dieting in Post-Bellum America" Journal of Social History, Vol. 44, Issue 1 (Fall 2010)

2010
Troy Bickham Texas A&M"Eating the Empire: Intersections of Food, Cookery and Imperialism in Eighteenth Century Britain" Past and Present Vol 198, Issue 1, (Aug. 2008)

2009
Heather Paxson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Post-Pasteurian Cultures: The Microbiopolitics of Raw-Milk Cheese in the United States" Cultural Anthropology, Vol. 23, Issue 1 (Feb. 2008)

 

ASFS Award for Food Studies Pedagogy Winners

2011
Amy Bentley, New York University, "Global Food Cultures: Mexico." (course) Netta Davis, Boston University, "Experiencing and Understanding Food through the Senses" (course)

2009
Jacob Park and colleagues, Green Mountain College, "Food, Agriculture and Community Development in the Northeast" (course)

 

Alex MacIntosh Graduate Prize Past Winners

2011
Hanna Garth, University of California Los Angeles
"Disconnecting the Mind and Essentialized Fare: Identity, Consumption, and Mental Distress in Santiago de Cuba"

2010
Emily Yates-Doerr , New York University
"The Opacity of Reductionism: Nutritional Black-Boxing and the Meanings of Nourishment"

2009
In Sun Lee, New York University
"Japanese spin on Italian pasta: the social life of Wafuu pasta in Japan"

2008
Kelly Erby, Emory University
"Worthy of Respect: Black Waiters in Boston before the Civil War"

2007
Brione Bruce, York University
"Social Movement Networking: Organic Farming in Kerala, India"

2006
Scott Rosenbaum, New York University
"A Fox in the Vineyard: History, Culture, Meaning, and Taste"

 

Bill Whit Undergraduate Prize Past Winners

2011
Victoria Moré, Illinois State University
"Dumpster Dinners: Freeganism at Illinois State University"

2010
Neal Akatsuka, University of Hawai’i
"Haunting Erotics of Gastronomic Desire as Bodily Penetration: Consuming Genetically Modified Food in Japan"

2009
Adrienne Johnson, UC Berkeley
"The American Grotesque: Competitive eating and the cultural meaning of American bodies"

2008
Sveinn Sigurdsson & Ashlan Falletta-Cowden, Lawrence University
"From sustenance to symbol: a multi-generational study of traditionality and modernization in the Icelandic diet"

2007
Joanne Hocking, University of Adelaide, Australia
"From the top of the tree: Fruit, the aristocracy and class distinction in early modern western European paintings"

2006
Andrea Davis, Hampshire College
"A Nutritional Analysis of a Local and Seasonal Diet in the Pioneer Valley"