A Gastronomica Roundtable: What Food Studies Needs Now

Alyshia Gálvez is a professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at Lehman College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is a cultural anthropologist and author of three books. Her most recent book is Eating NAFTA: Trade, Food Policies, and the Destruction of Mexico (University of California Press, 2018).

Jessica Carbone completed her doctorate in American Studies at Harvard University in 2024, centered on public culinary pedagogy in twentieth-century American food media and discourse. She is the managing editor of Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies, a contributing editor of books coverage to SAVEUR, and a visiting lecturer for the Gastronomy Program at Boston University.

Irina D. Mihalache is a recent immigrant who settled in Tkaronto from Romania; she researches and teaches in the areas of museum studies, food studies, community-based museum interpretation, and material cultures at the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto.

Krishnendu Ray is a professor in the Department of Nutrition and Food Studies at NYU. He was the Chair of the department from 2012–2021. He is the author of The Migrant’s Table (Temple University Press, 2004) and The Ethnic Restaurateur (Bloomsbury Academic, 2016), and the co-editor of Curried Cultures: Globalization, Food and South Asia (University of California Press, 2012) and Practicing Food Studies (NYU Press, 2024). He was a faculty member at The Culinary Institute of America (1996–2005) and president of the Association for the Study of Food and Society from 2014 to 2018.

Signe Rousseau teaches critical literacy at the University of Cape Town, where her doctoral research focused on celebrity chefs. She is the author of Food Media: Celebrity Chefs and the Politics of Everyday Interference (Berg, 2012) and Food and Social Media: You Are What You Tweet (Altamira, 2012).