To Feast on Us as Their Prey wins 2020 ASFS Book Award

May 28, 2020 | Award, Food and Foodways, Food Studies, News

To Feast on Us as Their Prey: Cannibalism and the Early Modern Atlantic, edited by Rachel B. Herrmann, has won the 2020 book award for an edited volume from the Association for the Study of Food and Society. The ASFS Book Award recognizes an outstanding book about...

Zaina Alsous named winner of the 2020 Norma Farber Award

May 7, 2020 | Award, News, Poetry and Literature

Zaina Alsous has won the 2020 Norma Farber Award for her collection A Theory of Birds. The Norma Farber Book Award honors a first book of original poetry written by a living author and is given by the Poetry Society of America. The Judge was Matthew Shenoda. “In...

Forging Communities wins ASFS Book Award

Jul 31, 2019 | Award

Forging Communities: Food and Representation in Medieval and Early Modern Southwestern Europe, edited by Montserrat Piera has won the 2019 book award, best edited collection, from the Association for the Study of Food and Society. Forging Communities explores the...

Interpreting Kigali, Rwanda Wins Award From Design Research Group

May 29, 2019 | Award

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Interpreting Kigali, Rwanda: Architectural Inquiries and Prospects for a Developing African City by Korydon H. Smith and Tomà Berlanda has been named the winner of the 2019 Great Places Award by the Environmental Design Research Association. The...

It’s All Done Gone wins Ned Shank Award

Jan 29, 2019 | Award

Congratulations to Patsy Watkins, winner of the 2018 Ned Shank Award for Outstanding Preservation Publication from Preserve Arkansas for her book It’s All Done Gone: Arkansas Photographs from the Farm Security Administration Collection, 1935–1943.

Two Food and Foodways Series Titles named Choice Outstanding Academic Titles

Jan 17, 2019 | Award, Review

“This edited volume breaks new ground in exploring decolonial movements connecting food to territory, subsistence, labor, local knowledge, memory, and identity. … The book serves as an outstanding model in methodology, combining narrative and life history, recipes,...