Anna Zeide is an American academic and author. She is an associate professor of history at

Virginia Tech Virginia Tech (formally the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and informally VT, or VPI) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia. It also has educational facilities in six re ...

and writes on food,

consumerism Consumerism is a social and economic order that encourages the acquisition of goods and services in ever-increasing amounts. With the Industrial Revolution, but particularly in the 20th century, mass production led to overproduction—the su ...

and

food systems The term food system describes the interconnected systems and processes that influence nutrition, food, health, community development, and agriculture. A food system includes all processes and infrastructure involved in feeding a population: growi ...

. She was previously at

Oklahoma State University Oklahoma (; Choctaw: ; chr, ᎣᎧᎳᎰᎹ, ''Okalahoma'' ) is a state in the South Central region of the United States, bordered by Texas on the south and west, Kansas on the north, Missouri on the northeast, Arkansas on the east, New ...

Early life and education

Zeide was born on April 23, 1984 and raised in a rural and forested region of

Arkansas Arkansas ( ) is a landlocked state in the South Central United States. It is bordered by Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, and Texas and Oklahoma to the west. Its name is from the O ...

. Her family were the only Jews in their town. The nearest synagogue was over two hours away in

Little Rock, Arkansas ( The "Little Rock") , government_type = Council-manager , leader_title = Mayor , leader_name = Frank Scott Jr. , leader_party = D , leader_title2 = Council , leader_name2 ...

. Zeide's father was a Russian-Jewish immigrant. She received a bachelor's degree and master's degree from

Washington University in St. Louis Washington University in St. Louis (WashU or WUSTL) is a private research university with its main campus in St. Louis County, and Clayton, Missouri. Founded in 1853, the university is named after George Washington. Washington University is r ...

and Doctor of Philosophy in History of Science, Medicine, and Technology from the

University of Wisconsin-Madison A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, th ...

Career

After receiving her doctorate in 2014, Zeide became an assistant professor of history at Oklahoma State University–Stillwater and wrote on food,

and

. She won a

James Beard Award The James Beard Foundation Awards are annual awards presented by the James Beard Foundation to recognize chefs, restaurateurs, authors and journalists in the United States. They are scheduled around James Beard's May 5 birthday. The media award ...

in the Reference, History, and Scholarship category for ''Canned: The Rise and Fall of Consumer Confidence in the American Food Industry''. Zeide and her work has been featured on

WORT Wort () is the liquid extracted from the mashing process during the brewing of beer or whisky. Wort contains the sugars, the most important being maltose and maltotriose, that will be fermented by the brewing yeast to produce alcohol. Wort als ...

, KPFA,

BYU Radio BYU Radio is a talk radio station run by Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Operating at Sirius XM channel 143 (and in northern Utah on 107.9 KUMT and 89.1-2 KBYU-HD2), it is known on-air as BYU Radio. The station features "news, current ...

WYPR WYPR (88.1 FM) is a public radio station serving the Baltimore, Maryland metropolitan area. Its studio is in the Charles Village neighborhood of northern Baltimore, while its transmitter is in Park Heights. The station is simulcast in the Fred ...

, KERA, and the New Books Network, and in the ''Review of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Studies'', ''

Stillwater News-Press The ''Stillwater News Press'' is a newspaper published in Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States. It is owned by CNHI. As of April 2020, it changed to printing on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday from a six-day-a-week morning daily schedule. In addit ...

'' and ''

The O'Colly ''The O'Colly'', formerly ''The Daily O'Collegian'', is the student-run newspaper at Oklahoma State University. ''The O'Colly'' is published every weekday and distributed for free to OSU students at various points around the campus in Stillwater. ...

''. Her work about

botulism Botulism is a rare and potentially fatal illness caused by a toxin produced by the bacterium ''Clostridium botulinum''. The disease begins with weakness, blurred vision, feeling tired, and trouble speaking. This may then be followed by weakne ...

has been published in the '' Saturday Evening Post'' and '' Smithsonian''. In 2020, Zeide left Oklahoma to become an associate professor of history at

and the founding director of their Food Studies Program.

Selected works

*''Canned: The Rise and Fall of Consumer Confidence in the American Food Industry''. Berkeley: University of California Press (2019).

References

External links

*
Her former blog
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