My Colloquium Panel
My colloquium would not have been possible without this panel. Thank you all for supporting my ideas and helping me develop, elaborate and enhance them further.
Primary Faculty Advisor: Jennifer Berg
Clinical Associate Professor of Food Studies; Director, Graduate Program in Food Studies
Berg holds a Masters degree in Food Service Management and a Ph.D. in Food Studies from New York University. Her research interests include: food and cultural identity, immigration studies, eastern European Jewish migration, New York City ethnic communities, social and cultural American history, American agricultural policy, and farm-to-table programs for elementary schools. She teaches courses in Food and Film, Food and Culture, Essentials of Cuisine, and more.
[Bio and contact information]
Christy Spackman
Doctoral Candidate in Food Studies; Adjunct Instructor of Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health
Spackman holds a Professional Cookery Certificate from Kendall College and a Masters degree in Food Chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research currently focuses on the disappearing border separating food from medicine, with a special focus on how the entanglement of visual, textual and scientific that occurs on food packaging contributes to consumer understanding of food as medicine. She has taught a variety of classes, including Essentials of Cuisine, Techniques of Regional Cuisine, Food Systems, Internships in Food, Nutrition in Food Studies, and Research Methods.
[Bio and contact information] (scroll to bottom of page for bio)
Nina Cornyetz
Associate Professor at Gallatin
Cornyetz holds a Masters degree and Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Cultures from Columbia University. Her research interests include critical, literary, and filmic theory; intellectual history; studies of gender and sexuality; and cultural studies, with a specialization in Japan. Her Gallatin courses include a study of ancient and premodern Japanese poetics and other art forms in Behind the Mask I: Exteriority , a close reading of several of Sigmund Freud's case studies in On Freud's Couch , and a study of ethics and cinematography in Hong Kong gangster films and their Japanese and American counterparts in Beyond Good and Evil: Gangsters, Violence, and the Urban Landscape.
[Bio and contact information]
Primary Faculty Advisor: Jennifer Berg
Clinical Associate Professor of Food Studies; Director, Graduate Program in Food Studies
Berg holds a Masters degree in Food Service Management and a Ph.D. in Food Studies from New York University. Her research interests include: food and cultural identity, immigration studies, eastern European Jewish migration, New York City ethnic communities, social and cultural American history, American agricultural policy, and farm-to-table programs for elementary schools. She teaches courses in Food and Film, Food and Culture, Essentials of Cuisine, and more.
[Bio and contact information]
Christy Spackman
Doctoral Candidate in Food Studies; Adjunct Instructor of Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health
Spackman holds a Professional Cookery Certificate from Kendall College and a Masters degree in Food Chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research currently focuses on the disappearing border separating food from medicine, with a special focus on how the entanglement of visual, textual and scientific that occurs on food packaging contributes to consumer understanding of food as medicine. She has taught a variety of classes, including Essentials of Cuisine, Techniques of Regional Cuisine, Food Systems, Internships in Food, Nutrition in Food Studies, and Research Methods.
[Bio and contact information] (scroll to bottom of page for bio)
Nina Cornyetz
Associate Professor at Gallatin
Cornyetz holds a Masters degree and Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Cultures from Columbia University. Her research interests include critical, literary, and filmic theory; intellectual history; studies of gender and sexuality; and cultural studies, with a specialization in Japan. Her Gallatin courses include a study of ancient and premodern Japanese poetics and other art forms in Behind the Mask I: Exteriority , a close reading of several of Sigmund Freud's case studies in On Freud's Couch , and a study of ethics and cinematography in Hong Kong gangster films and their Japanese and American counterparts in Beyond Good and Evil: Gangsters, Violence, and the Urban Landscape.
[Bio and contact information]