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Anna Zeide
Born1984 (age 39–40)[citation needed]
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater
Known forFood history
AwardsJames Beard Foundation Award (2019)
Scientific career
FieldsHistory
Institutions
ThesisIn Cans We Trust: Food, Consumers, and Scientific Expertise in Twentieth-Century America (2014)
Doctoral advisorGregg Mitman
Websiteannazeide.org

Anna Zeide is an American academic and author. She is an associate professor of history at Virginia Tech and writes on food, consumerism, and food systems. She was previously at Oklahoma State University.

Early life and education

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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]

Career

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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]

Selected works

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  • Canned: The Rise and Fall of Consumer Confidence in the American Food Industry. Berkeley: University of California Press (2019). ISBN 9780520322769
  • US History in 15 Foods. Bloomsbury Academic (2023). ISBN 9781350211971

References

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  1. ^ "LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress)". The Library of Congress. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  2. ^ a b Contois, Emily. "Canned Food History: A Conversation with Anna Zeide | Hippo Reads". Hippo Reads. Retrieved 2020-01-06.
  3. ^ "A Jew Dealing with Christmas". Madison Storytellers. Retrieved 2020-01-06 – via Mixcloud.
  4. ^ Zeide, Anna (2014). In Cans We Trust: Food, Consumers, and Scientific Expertise in Twentieth-Century America (Ph.D. thesis). University of Wisconsin at Madison. OCLC 951679026. ProQuest 1789554587.
  5. ^ a b Zeide, Anna. "Curricum Vitae".
  6. ^ "Opening the lid on food history | College of Letters & Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison". ls.wisc.edu.
  7. ^ Miller, Laura J. (1 June 2019). "Anna Zeide. Canned: The Rise and Fall of Consumer Confidence in the American Food Industry". The American Historical Review. 124 (3): 1116–1117. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhz498. ISSN 0002-8762.
  8. ^ Crowley, Chris (27 April 2019). "Here Are the Winners of the 2019 James Beard Foundation Media Awards". Grub Street. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  9. ^ "A History of Canned Food with Anna Zeide". WORT 89.9 FM. 9 May 2019. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  10. ^ "It's in the Can". KPFA. 11 September 2018. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  11. ^ "Anna Zeide: Canned". BYU Radio. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  12. ^ "Creamed, Canned, Condensed: The History of Canned Food". WYPR. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  13. ^ "America's First Processed Food". Think. 23 April 2018. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  14. ^ "Anna Zeide, "Canned: The Rise and Fall of Consumer Confidence in the American Food Industry" (U California Press, 2018)". New Books Network. 16 April 2018. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  15. ^ Depecker, Thomas (1 April 2019). "Anna Zeide, 2018, Canned: The rise and fall of consumer confidence in the American food industry". Review of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Studies. 100 (1–4): 129–131. doi:10.1007/s41130-019-00085-9. S2CID 159219995. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  16. ^ Simmons, Beau. "OSU professor wins award with first book". stwnewspress-cnhi.newsmemory.com. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  17. ^ Jackson, Jacob (4 March 2018). "OSU professor presents talk on canning industry, promotes upcoming book". The O'Colly. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  18. ^ "Anna Zeide | at The Saturday Evening Post". Saturday Evening Post. 14 November 2019.
  19. ^ Zeide, Anna. "The Botulism Outbreak That Gave Rise to America's Food Safety System". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  20. ^ Zeide, Anna (24 March 2012). "about". annazeide.org.
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