i’m a food & health anthropologist from toronto

AnthroDish, my podcast about food, culture, health, and the environment, has won the Canadian Podcast Award for Outstanding Science Series and is regularly in the Top 5 Anthropology Podcasts on Goodpods. My biweekly newsletter, AnthroDish Essays, also explores food and health trends with this anthropological perspective.

My work has appeared in CBC Radio, Salon, Huffington Post Quebec, The National Observer, The Conversation Canada, Feminist Food Journal, The Preserve Journal, Sliced by Fed, and other outlets. Collaborating with Mason Studios and Pastaio, I hosted Nourish: Connecting through Dumplings. Our event won the DesignTO 2024 Best in Festival Event.

I received my medical anthropology PhD in 2021 from McMaster University, exploring the relationships between food, water, and gendered health experiences with a First Nation community in Ontario. This work was published in Indigenous Water and Drought Management in a Changing World (Elsevier Press, 2022), Social Science & Medicine and other scientific journals. I have taught food anthropology at McMaster University and the University of Manitoba, Indigenous studies at Centennial College, and guest lectured at various universities across Canada.

Before studying contemporary food and health, I was a bioarchaeologist, exploring the lived health and dietary experiences through bone and tooth analysis in Belize, Denmark, and Nova Scotia. Our work in Nova Scotia won a 2019 Parks Canada CEO Award of Excellence for our team’s work in establishing an unprecedented bioarchaeology field program at the Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site.

My literary agent is Rob Firing at Transatlantic Agency.