Rachel Eden Black

Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Gastronomy

BA, MA, University of British Columbia, Canada; PhD, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy

Dr. Black’s specialty is the anthropology of food, with focus on open-air markets, wine production, culture and alcohol, urban agriculture, and the politics of sustainable food systems. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Università di Scienze Gastronomiche in Italy, and collaborated with the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and Universitat de Barcelona on a new food systems program in Spain. Black serves as series editor of Anthropology of Food & Nutrition for Berghahn Books, associate editor of Food and Foodways, and as vice-president of the Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition, among other accomplishments. She is editor of Alcohol in Popular Culture: An Encyclopedia, forthcoming on ABC-CLIO/Greenwood Press.