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Digest: A Journal of Foodways & Culture 7:1 (2018-2019): 77-78       ©  American Folklore Society 2020 
	

Authors in Digest 7:1 (2018-2019) 
 
  Articles: Sue Samuelson Prize Essays 
 
Sarah T. Shultz is a PhD candidate in the Department of Folklore at Memorial 
University of Newfoundland in Canada. Her research interests include foodways, 
personal experience narrative, culinary tourism, identity performance, and gender 
studies. She is currently working on her dissertation, which centers on spicy foods as 
tourist attractions and symbols of local identity in Nashville, Tennessee, and London, 
England. Sarah has an MA in Folk Studies from Western Kentucky University. 
 
Julia Fine received her AB from Harvard University in History and Literature, where 
she focused on the food history of the British Empire. She presently works as a 
Dumbarton Oaks Humanities Fellow on the Folger Shakespeare Library’s Mellon-
Funded “Before ‘Farm to Table’: Early Modern Foodways and Cultures Team,” as well as 
on the Dumbarton Oaks Mellon-Funded Plant Humanities Initiative. 
 
 Research Essays & Notes 
 
Mira Johnson completed an MA in folklore from the University of Oregon and served 
as the program coordinator at FolkArtPA, Pennsylvania’s state folklife program. A 
regional culture specialist, she has conducted fieldwork with rural and urban folk artists 
and tradition bearers, particularly in refugee and immigrant communities. As Folk Arts 
and Education Coordinator at the Pelham Arts Center in Pelham, New York, she 
oversaw the folk art performance and workshop series and worked to integrate folk art 
education into the center’s studio art curriculum. She is currently an officer of the New 
York Folklore Society, a lecturer at Bronx Community College, and a doctoral student in 
the Adult Education program at Penn State-Harrisburg. Her dissertation research 
addresses the role of traditional knowledge in community-based education. 
 
David J. Puglia, a native of South Central Pennsylvania, is now Deputy Chairperson 
and Assistant Professor of English Language & Literature at Bronx Community College 
(City University of New York), where he teaches courses in folklore and folklife. He 
formerly was a lecturer in the American Studies program at Penn State-Harrisburg. A 
folklorist by training, he specializes in the study of local and regional culture, 
particularly in the Middle Atlantic. His books about Pennsylvania and Maryland culture 
include South Central Pennsylvania Legends and Lore (2012), Maryland Legends: 
Folklore from the Old Line State (2014; co-author Trevor J. Blank), and Tradition, 
Urban Identity, and the Baltimore “Hon”: The Folk in the City (2018). He has served as 
president of the Middle Atlantic Folklife Association and editor of the scholarly journal 
New Directions in Folklore. 
 
Johanna Mörlein is researcher at the University of Göttingen in Germany. She 
studied agriculture at the University of Göttingen and at the Norwegian University of 
Life Sciences near Olso, Norway. Since 2010 she has been involved in sensory 
perception studies on boar taint. When not working in the sensory lab, she is a mother 
of two and loves to eat Avgolemono. 
	



78      Authors  Digest: A Journal of Foodways & Culture 7:1 (2018-2019)     	

 Book Reviews 
 
Marissa Francisco Farahbod is a PhD candidate in Folklore at Memorial University 
of Newfoundland, where she also received a master’s degree. Her undergraduate degree 
is in English from University of Tehran, and she achieved her first master’s in 
Comparative Literature and Gender Studies from King’s College London. She has also 
worked as a researcher and instructor at University of Santo Tomas. Her current 
research primarily focuses on ethnic and migration studies, incorporating cultural and 
culinary heritage.  
 
Tiff Graham 
Tiff Graham teaches at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, California. She has 
taught Cultural Studies, Occupational Culture, Anthropology through a Science Fiction 
Lens, Festivals, American Folklore, and a few digital media courses. She holds a PhD in 
Culture and Performance (University of California Los Angeles), MS in Occupational 
Health (University of Toledo/Medical College of Ohio), and BA in English (University of 
Missouri-Columbia). Currently she photographs and writes about parades, protest 
marches, festivals, foodways, costumes, environmental issues, and other topics 
at www.ParadeHistory.com. 
	
Nic Hartmann is Director of Learning & Civic Engagement at the National Czech and 
Slovak Museum and Library. His research interests have focused on public folklore, 
occupational folklife, and folklife education.  
 
Judith Lanzendorfer, Associate Professor of English at the University of Findlay in 
Ohio, has worked on projects related to foodways for over 15 years, ranging from the 
role of food in Medieval women’s mystical writings, to eating in fairy tales, to the 
framing of bread in online baking communities where she is a member.  
 
Kristin McAndrews has taught numerous courses in Art, Culture and Cuisine, 
American Literature, Food and Ethnography, Food Writing, and Literature and Issues of 
Food in Popular Culture at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa, where she is an Associate 
Professor in the Department of English. In February 2020 she presented “In Defense of 
the Apple and a Shock of Wheat,” at the Honolulu Museum of Art, focusing on the way 
depictions of food in art tell stories about desire, the landscape, and politics. 


