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tamer afifi is an associate academic officer in the environmental migration, social vulnerability and adaptation section at the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security. He is research director of the Where the Rain Falls Project.

sean basinski is the founder and director of the Street Vendor Project at the Urban Justice Center. In 1998, before law school, Sean sold burritos from the corner of 52nd Street and Park Avenue. He teaches classes in community organizing at NYU and Columbia.

lisa buxbaum burke is a project manager and research associate at the Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence at Purdue University and the Center for Work-Family Stress, Safety, and Health.

yong chen is associate professor of history at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of the forthcoming Chop Suey USA: The Rise of Chinese Food in America, among other publications, and a frequent commentator on such topics as food, Asian Americans, and American immigration and higher education.

alexandra délano is assistant professor of global studies and codirector of the Zolberg Center on Global Migration at The New School. She is the author of Mexico and Its Diaspora in the United States: Policies of Emigration since 1848 (2011) and articles in numerous journals.

hasia diner is professor of Hebrew and Judaic studies and history, Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History, and director of the Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History at New York University. Her books include Hungering for America: Italian, Irish and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration (2002).

sakiko fukuda-parr is a professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs at The New School. She is best known for her work on the UN Development Program Human Development Reports, 1995–2004, and has published widely on poverty, human rights, conflict, gender, and food policy.

james c. hathaway is the James E. and Sarah A. Degan Professor of Law and director of the Program in Refugee and Asylum Law at the University of Michigan. His publications include a leading treatise on the refugee definition (The Law of Refugee Status, 1991, 2013) and The Rights of Refugees under International Law (2005).

saru jayaraman is the cofounder and codirector of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC-United) and Director of the Food [End Page 501] Labor Research Center at University of California, Berkeley. She is coeditor of The New Urban Immigrant Workforce (2005) and author of Behind the Kitchen Door (forthcoming).

ellen ernst kossek is the Basil S. Turner Professor of Management in the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University and the inaugural research director of the Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence. She is currently president of the Work and Family Researchers Network.

arup maharatna was formerly a professor at the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics. His books include The Demography of Famines: An Indian Historical Perspective (1996), Demographic Perspectives on India’s Tribes (2005), and India’s Perception, Society, and Development: Essays Unpleasant (2012).

fabio parasecoli is associate professor and coordinator of food studies at The New School. His publications include The History of Food in Italy (forthcoming), Food Culture in Italy (2004) and Bite Me! Food in Popular Culture (2008). He is general editor with Peter Scholliers of the six-volume Cultural History of Food (2012).

jeffrey m. pilcher is professor of history and cultural studies at the University of Toronto. His books include Planet Taco: A Global History of Mexican Food (2012) and The Oxford Handbook of Food History (2012). He is coeditor of the peer-reviewed journal Global Food History.

dwaine plaza is a professor of sociology in the School of Public Policy at Oregon State University. His work addresses subjects including hybridity and segmented assimilation among second generation Caribbeans, and new Internet communication technology as transnational bridges for immigrants living in the diaspora.

krishnendu ray, associate professor and chair in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University, also teaches at the Culinary Institute of America. His publications include Curried Cultures: Globalization, Food, and South Asia (coeditor, 2012).

koko warner is head of the environmental migration, social vulnerability, and adaptation...

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