Presentations

Conference Presentations

2014    “Breaking Ethnographic Silences: Narrating Incest/Child Sex Abuse,” at the 2014 meeting of the American Ethnological Society, April 10-12, Boston, MA.

2013    “Kitchen Table Ethnography as Reflexive Epistemology,” at the 112th annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, November 20-24, Chicago, IL.

2014    “Intersectional Violence, Intersectional Healing: Community-Based Responses to Trauma,” at the 113th annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, December 3-7, Washington, DC.

2012    “Sustainable Barrio: Food Justice in East Harlem,” at the 15th annual joint meeting of the Association for the Studies of Food and Society, the Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society & the Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition, June 20-24, New York, NY. 

2009    “Con la cocina se mama: Food and Mothering in Greater Mexico,” at the 108th annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, December 2-6, Philadelphia, PA.

2006    “At the Kitchen Table: Reflexive Anthropology and Undisciplined Ethnography,” at the 105th annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, November 15-19, San Jose, CA.

2004    “Kitchen Table Ethnography as Feminist Anthropology,” at the 7th annual joint meeting of the Association for the Study of Food and Society & the Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society, June 10-13, Hyde Park, New York.

2004    “Eating the Whole Enchilada: Performing Place at a Southwestern Food Festival,” at the 7th annual joint meeting of the Association for the Study of Food and Society and the Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society, June 10-13, Hyde Park, New York.

2003    “Time in a Jar Is Better than No Memory at All: Food-Memories and the Definition of Womanhood in Northern Mexico,” at the 102nd annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, November 19-23, Chicago, IL.

2002    “Making Familia from Scratch: Gender and Community in the Parish Kitchen,” at the 24th annual meeting of the Southwest / Texas Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association, February 12-15, Albuquerque, NM.

Joint Presentations

2008    “Livin’ la Vida Sabrosa” at Gastropolis book release, December 10, Astor Center, New York, NY.  (With Babette Audant.)

1997    “Collecting Oral Histories with the Chicana/Latina/Hispana Outreach Group: A Collaborative Project of the Women of the West Museum and Boulder Public Library,” at the 12th annual meeting of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social, July 30-August 3, Boulder, CO. (With Benita Durán, Linda Damon, Ghada Elturk and Sara Lauren.)

Invited Lectures

2014    “Global Food Systems,” for the Anthropology Society of Queens College, City University of New York, November 24, Flushing, NY.

2014    “El Desarollo Personal y el Camino a la Comunidad,” for En La Busqueda de Nuestro Indigena, sponsored by Wind of the Spirit: Un Centro de Recursos para los Migrantes, August 9, Morristown, NJ.

2012    “Food Deserts or Food Justice: Community-Based Approaches to Urban Food Insecurity,” for the Anthropology Society of Queens College, City University of New York, November 19, Flushing, NY.

2011    “‘Con la cocina se mama’: Food and Mothering in Greater Mexico,” public lecture at Millersville University, November 15, Millersville, PA.

2011    “Mapping ‘Sabor’: Flavor in/of Latino New York,” for Ethnographic Methods, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Millersville University, November 15, Millersville, PA.

2011    “Food Policy,” for Making Public Policy, Urban Studies Department, Queens College, City University of New York, April 6, Flushing, NY.

2009    “Sensing the City,” at Gastropolis book launch event, August 30, Governor’s Island, New York, NY.

2009    “Sensory Ethnography,” for Food Studies, Graduate Center, City University of New York, April 10, New York, NY.   

2009    “Sensory ethnography in Latino New York,” at Gastropolis book launch event, March 13, Department of Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health, New York University, New York, NY.

2005    “Jew Food: The Making of a Cookbook,” original documentary screening and lecture at Feast or Famine Colloquium, April 14, Department of Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health, New York University, New York, NY.

2004    “Contemporary Mexican Cuisine” for Culture through Foods, Department of Anthropology, New York University, Spring 2004, New York, NY.

2001    “Mexico: From Colonial to National Cookery,” for Food and Culture, Department of Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health, New York University, Spring 2001, New York, NY.

2000    “Conquest, Colonialism and the U.S.-Mexico border” for World Cultures: Latin America, Morse Academic Plan, New York University, Spring 2000, New York, NY.

2000    “The Columbian Exchange,” for History of Food, Department of Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health, New York University, Fall 2000.

Recorded Lectures

“Representing Latinas” (parts 1 & 2), “Native Women in Pre-Conquest Societies,” “Iberian Roots of Latin American Gender Roles,” “Colonial Epistemology,” “Dancing the Margin – Tango & Samba,” “Industrial Gender in Maquiladoras,” “Femicide.”

“Colonial Foundations of Latin America,” “Latin American Independence Movements,” “Towards Brazilian Independence,” “Modern Andean History,” “Society and Politics in Argentina,” “The Mexican Revolution,” “The Cuban Revolution.”

‘The Mexican-American War,” “The Spanish American War,” “The Great Depression and Mexican Repatriation,” “Puerto Ricans in the United States,” “Cuban Migration,” “The Chicano Movement.”