Food Chains: From Farmyard to Shopping Cart

List of Contributors

Contributors J. L. Anderson earned his Ph.D. at Iowa State University in agricultural history and rural studies and teaches history at Mount Royal College. He is the author of Industrializing the Corn Belt: Agriculture, Technology, and the Environment (2009). Warren Belasco teaches American studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He is the author of Appetite for Change: How the Counterculture Took on the Food Industry (2006), Meals to Come: A History of the Future of Food (2006), and Food: The Key Concepts ( 2008). He is the coeditor of Food Nations: Selling Taste in Consumer Societies (2002) and senior editor of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America (2004). He is also chief editor of Food, Culture and Society: An International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research. Kelly Feltault is a doctoral candidate in anthropology at American University. She holds a master’s degree in folklore and oral history from the University of North Carolina, and has worked in applied anthropology and international development. Her dissertation examines HACCP as a global governance standard to understand how companies and states coordinate and sustain global crabmeat networks and the creation of competing quality conventions. Andrew C. Godley is Professor of Business History at the Centre for International Business History, University of Reading. He has published widely in the area of retailing and marketing history, including Jewish Immigrant Entrepreneurship in London and New York, 1880–1914: Enterprise and Culture (2001), a study of cultural assimilation among Jewish immigrants in the garment trade. Catherine Grandclément has a doctorate in sociology from the Ecole des Mines de Paris (France). She investigates the construction of contemporary shopping through a material, historical anthropology of the supermarket. She has published (with F. Cochoy) “Publicizing Goldilocks’ Choice at the Supermarket: The Political Work of Shopping Packs, Carts and Talk,” in Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel, eds., Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy (2005). Katherine C. Grier is Professor in the Department of History, University of Delaware, and Director of the Museum Studies Program. She is the author of Pets in America: A History (2007) and executive editor of Winterthur Portfolio, the journal of American material culture studies. Shane Hamilton is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Georgia. His work on the political economy of industrial agriculture has appeared in Agricultural History and Business History Review and in the forthcoming book, Trucking Country: The Road to America’s Wal-Mart Economy. Roger Horowitz is Associate Director of the Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society at the Hagley Museum and Library and SecretaryTreasurer of the Business History Conference. His most recent book is Putting Meat on the American Table: Taste, Technology, Transformation (2005). Patrick Hyder Patterson is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of California, San Diego. A specialist in the history of popular culture and everyday life in Eastern Europe and the Balkans, he is currently working on a book-length study of consumption and market culture in socialist Hungary, Yugoslavia, and the German Democratic Republic. Jeffrey M. Pilcher is Professor of History at the University of Minnesota. His books include , ¡Que vivan los tamales! Food and the Making of Mexican Identity (1998), The Sausage Rebellion: Public Health, Private Enterprise, and Meat in Mexico City, 1890–1917 (2006), and Food in World History (2006). He is currently writing a book entitled Planet Taco: The Global Borderlands of Mexican Cuisine. Jonathan Rees is Associate Professor of History at Colorado State University–Pueblo. His article on the safety of early ice manufacturing plants appears in the July 2005 issue of Technology and Culture. He is working on a book about the American ice and refrigeration industries from 1805 to 1930. Jenny Leigh Smith is an assistant professor in the School of History, Technology, and Society at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Broadly interested in issues of food, farming, and the environmental impact of industrial activity, she is currently completing a manuscript provisionally entitled “Animal Farms,” about the industrialization of Soviet farm animals. Lisa C. Tolbert is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and the author of Constructing Townscapes: Space and Society in Antebellum Tennessee (1999). Katherine Leonard Turner received her Ph.D. in 2008 from the University of Delaware. Her dissertation, “Good Food for Little Money: Food and Cooking among Working-Class Urban Americans, 1875–1930,” is about the ways workingclass families met the challenges of preparing food in cramped apartments, combining home...