I have participated in the emerging Food Systems Transdisciplinary Research Initiative since its inception at UVM.  In particular I am interested in the relationship that migrants — including refugees, labor migrants, and other kinds of immigrants – have with food and the ways in which such relationships help to sustain, reinforce, transform, and challenge notions of home, belonging and identity.

There are two particular projects I have focused on through this research:

• Immigrants and Familiar Foods
• Migrants and Urban Foraging

This link provides some resources on both contemporary and historical examples of ethnic eating practices primarily in the US but with some other global examples as well