Anna Zeide
Anna Zeide | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1984 (age 41–42) |
| Alma mater | |
| Known for | Food history |
| Awards | James Beard Foundation Award (2019) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | History |
| Institutions | |
| Thesis | In Cans We Trust: Food, Consumers, and Scientific Expertise in Twentieth-Century America (2014) |
| Doctoral advisor | Gregg Mitman |
| Website | annazeide |
Anna Zeide is an American professor of history at Virginia Tech and an author who was written about food, consumerism, and food systems. She wrote Canned: The Rise and Fall of Consumer Confidence in the American Food Industry. She previously worked at Oklahoma State University.
Early life and education
[edit | edit source]Zeide was born on April 23, 1984,[1] and raised in a rural and forested region of Arkansas.[2] Her family were the only Jews in their town. The nearest synagogue was over two hours away in Little Rock, Arkansas.[3] Zeide's father was a Russian-Jewish immigrant.[2] She received a bachelor's degree and master's degree from Washington University in St. Louis and Doctor of Philosophy in History of Science, Medicine, and Technology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.[4]
Career
[edit | edit source]After receiving her doctorate in 2014, Zeide became an assistant professor of history at Oklahoma State University–Stillwater[5] and wrote on food, consumerism, and food systems.[6][7] She won a James Beard Award in the Reference, History, and Scholarship category for Canned: The Rise and Fall of Consumer Confidence in the American Food Industry.[8] Zeide and her work has been featured on WORT,[9] KPFA,[10] BYU Radio,[11] WYPR,[12] KERA,[13] and the New Books Network,[14] and in the Review of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Studies,[15] Stillwater News-Press[16] and The O'Colly.[17] Her work about botulism has been published in the Saturday Evening Post and Smithsonian.[18][19]
In 2020, Zeide left Oklahoma to become an associate professor of history at Virginia Tech and the founding director of their Food Studies Program.[5][20]
Selected works
[edit | edit source]- Canned: The Rise and Fall of Consumer Confidence in the American Food Industry. Berkeley: University of California Press (2019). Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- US History in 15 Foods. Bloomsbury Academic (2023). Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
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External links
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- Her former blog
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- James Beard Foundation Award winners
- Oklahoma State University faculty
- Washington University in St. Louis alumni
- University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
- 1984 births
- Living people
- Academics from Arkansas
- American people of Russian-Jewish descent
- American writers of Russian descent
- 21st-century American women writers
- American women non-fiction writers
- 21st-century American non-fiction writers
- Jewish American women writers
- Jewish American historians
- Virginia Tech faculty
- 21st-century American women academics
- 21st-century American academics