The First Course: A Case for Locating Public History within “The Food Movement”

Michelle Moon is Assistant Director for Adult Programs at the Peabody Essex Museum. Building on a background in K-12 formal and experiential education, she has held positions in museum education and interpretation, serving as Director of Education at Strawbery Banke Museum, in Portsmouth, NH and as Program Area Coordinator at Mystic Seaport. She is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Museum Studies at the Harvard Extension Studies program. Her interests focus on museums as resources for building social capital and community resilience, including intersections with cultural and economic development, placemaking, and the creative economy.

Cathy Stanton is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Tufts University and an active public historian who has served as a consultant to the National Park Service's Ethnography Program for many years. Her 2012 study “Plant Yourself in My Neighborhood: An Ethnographic Landscape Study of Farms and Farmers in Columbia County, New York,” won a 2013 Excellence in Consulting award from the National Council on Public History. With Michelle Moon, she is co-authoring a book for Left Coast Press on how history can help reinvent the food system.

Michelle Moon is Assistant Director for Adult Programs at the Peabody Essex Museum. Building on a background in K-12 formal and experiential education, she has held positions in museum education and interpretation, serving as Director of Education at Strawbery Banke Museum, in Portsmouth, NH and as Program Area Coordinator at Mystic Seaport. She is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Museum Studies at the Harvard Extension Studies program. Her interests focus on museums as resources for building social capital and community resilience, including intersections with cultural and economic development, placemaking, and the creative economy.

Cathy Stanton is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Tufts University and an active public historian who has served as a consultant to the National Park Service's Ethnography Program for many years. Her 2012 study “Plant Yourself in My Neighborhood: An Ethnographic Landscape Study of Farms and Farmers in Columbia County, New York,” won a 2013 Excellence in Consulting award from the National Council on Public History. With Michelle Moon, she is co-authoring a book for Left Coast Press on how history can help reinvent the food system.