American academic and author
Anna Zeide is an American academic and author. She is an associate professor of history at Virginia Tech and writes on food, consumerism , and food systems . She was previously at Oklahoma State University .
Early life and education
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
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
Canned: The Rise and Fall of Consumer Confidence in the American Food Industry . Berkeley: University of California Press (2019). ISBN 9780520322769
US History in 15 Foods . Bloomsbury Academic (2023). ISBN 9781350211971
References
^ "LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress)" . The Library of Congress . Retrieved 6 January 2020 .
^ a b Contois, Emily. "Canned Food History: A Conversation with Anna Zeide | Hippo Reads" . Hippo Reads . Retrieved 2020-01-06 .
^ "A Jew Dealing with Christmas" . Madison Storytellers . Retrieved 2020-01-06 – via Mixcloud.
^ Zeide, Anna (2014). In Cans We Trust: Food, Consumers, and Scientific Expertise in Twentieth-Century America (Ph.D. thesis). University of Wisconsin at Madison . OCLC 951679026 . ProQuest 1789554587 .
^ a b Zeide, Anna. "Curricum Vitae" .
^ "Opening the lid on food history | College of Letters & Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison" . ls.wisc.edu .
^ Miller, Laura J. (1 June 2019). "Anna Zeide. Canned: The Rise and Fall of Consumer Confidence in the American Food Industry" . The American Historical Review . 124 (3): 1116–1117. doi :10.1093/ahr/rhz498 . ISSN 0002-8762 .
^ Crowley, Chris (27 April 2019). "Here Are the Winners of the 2019 James Beard Foundation Media Awards" . Grub Street . Retrieved 6 January 2020 .
^ "A History of Canned Food with Anna Zeide" . WORT 89.9 FM . 9 May 2019. Retrieved 6 January 2020 .
^ "It's in the Can" . KPFA . 11 September 2018. Retrieved 6 January 2020 .
^ "Anna Zeide: Canned" . BYU Radio . Retrieved 6 January 2020 .
^ "Creamed, Canned, Condensed: The History of Canned Food" . WYPR . Retrieved 6 January 2020 .
^ "America's First Processed Food" . Think . 23 April 2018. Retrieved 6 January 2020 .
^ "Anna Zeide, "Canned: The Rise and Fall of Consumer Confidence in the American Food Industry" (U California Press, 2018)" . New Books Network . 16 April 2018. Retrieved 6 January 2020 .
^ Depecker, Thomas (1 April 2019). "Anna Zeide, 2018, Canned: The rise and fall of consumer confidence in the American food industry" . Review of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Studies . 100 (1–4): 129–131. doi :10.1007/s41130-019-00085-9 . S2CID 159219995 . Retrieved 6 January 2020 .
^ Simmons, Beau. "OSU professor wins award with first book" . stwnewspress-cnhi.newsmemory.com . Retrieved 6 January 2020 .
^ Jackson, Jacob (4 March 2018). "OSU professor presents talk on canning industry, promotes upcoming book" . The O'Colly . Retrieved 6 January 2020 .
^ "Anna Zeide | at The Saturday Evening Post" . Saturday Evening Post . 14 November 2019.
^ Zeide, Anna. "The Botulism Outbreak That Gave Rise to America's Food Safety System" . Smithsonian Magazine . Retrieved 6 January 2020 .
^ Zeide, Anna (24 March 2012). "about" . annazeide.org .
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