School of Sustainability and the Environment

Faculty and Staff

Alice Julier Ph.D.

ajulier@chatham.edu
Program Director and Associate Professor, Food Studies

Hometown : Amherst, MA
Joined Chatham : 2010

Academic Areas of Interest

Sociology: Social Inequality; Sex, Gender, and the Body; Culture and Consumption; Race, Class, and Gender; Qualitative Methods; Food and Agriculture, Public Policy and Discourse;Popular Culture and Media;

Education

• Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Massachusetts (Amherst, MA)
• M.A. in Sociology, University of Massachusetts (Amherst, MA)
• B.A. in Sociology, Brandeis University (Waltham, MA)

Publications

• Things Taste Better in Small Houses: Food, Friendship, and Inequality. (University of Illinois, July 2010)
• Mapping Men onto the Menu: Food and Masculinities. Food and Foodways: Explorations in the History of Human Nourishment. Double Issue on Men and Masculinities co-edited with Laura Lindenfeld. Vol 13, No. 1 and 2. Routledge. March 2005.
• Julia at Smith. Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture. Commemorative Issue on Julia Child. Vol. 5, No. 3. Summer 2005.
• Hiding Race, Class, and Gender in Discourses of Commercial Food From Betty Crocker to Feminist Food Studies: Critical Perspectives on Women and Food. Edited by Arlene Voski Avakian and Barbara Haber. University of Massachusetts Press. December 2005.
• The Political Economy of Obesity: The Fat Pay All. In Food and Culture: A Reader (second edition), edited by Carole Counihan and Penny Van Estrik. Routledge 2008

Awards

• Deborah Josepha Cohen Award for excellence in Fine Art, Brandeis University,
• Excellence in Classroom Practice Citation, Conference on College Composition and Communication, Nashville, TN
• Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Massachusetts

Organizations

• Association for the Study of Food and Society
• Sociologists for Women in Society
• American Sociological Association
• Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society
• National Women's Studies Association

Achievements

• Board member, Food, Culture, and Society 2004 - present
• Vice President, Association for the Study of Food and Society, 2009 - present
• Board member, Food and Foodways: explorations in the history and culture of human nourishment 2004 - present
• President, Association for the Study of Food and Society. 2003–2006