I am a Cultural Anthropologist and Associate Professor of English and Rural Sociology at The Ohio State University's agricultural campus, Ohio State ATI, located on the northern end of Ohio's Amish Country in Wooster. I'm native to the western Unite...More
I am a Cultural Anthropologist and Associate Professor of English and Rural Sociology at The Ohio State University's agricultural campus, Ohio State ATI, located on the northern end of Ohio's Amish Country in Wooster. I'm native to the western United States and have been engaged in researching and writing about regional culinary history and traditions of Calabria and Sicilia, Italy, the American Midwest, and Ohio. Of late, I have expanded my research to interviewing cultural producers and shapers in the Volta Region of The Republic of Ghana. My research is interdisciplinary with a primary area of focus on the use of the ephemeral as a communicative device in everyday life. Specifically, I research and write about the myriad uses of food as community and communication. I've published numerous short articles on local and regional foods, food traditions, practices, and patterns of behavior with the Culinary Historians of Ann Arbor, The Ohio Humanities Council, The Oxford University Press, SAGE, and The History Press. I'm the author of the book, "A Culinary History of the Great Black Swamp: Buckeye Candy, Bratwurst and Apple Butter." My family and I reside in Bowling Green, Ohio and are active members of our community.
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