Anna Zeide | |
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Born | 1984 (age 40–41) |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | |
Known for | Food history |
Awards | James Beard Foundation Award (2019) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | History |
Institutions | |
Thesis | In Cans We Trust: Food, Consumers, and Scientific Expertise in Twentieth-Century America (2014) |
Doctoral advisor | Gregg Mitman |
Website | annazeide |
Anna Zeide is an American professor of history at Virginia Tech and an author who was written about food, consumerism, and food systems. She wrote Canned: The Rise and Fall of Consumer Confidence in the American Food Industry. She previously worked at Oklahoma State University.
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]
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]