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Digest: A Journal of Foodways & Culture 7:2 (2019-2020): 173-174 © American Folklore Society 2021 
	

Authors in Digest 7:2 (2019-2020) 
 
  Articles: Sue Samuelson Prize Essay 
 
Ema Noëlla Kibirkstis is a PhD candidate in Folklore at Memorial University of 
Newfoundland. Her doctoral research is on the narratives of taste of the Trappist beer 
brewed at Orval Abbey in southeastern Belgium. Other research interests surround 
vernacular homebrewing practices and counter-hegemonic place-making. 
 
 Research Essays 
 
Samantha Castleman is an academic consultant in Houston, Texas, working to help 
high school students find and apply for the college that will be the best fit for their 
professional goals. She has a PhD in Folklore and Literature from University of 
Louisiana at Lafayette. Her research primarily focuses on interactions between the body 
and culture, specifically how alterations to the physical form may be coded positively or 
negatively according to social expectations. Her hope is that this type of investigation 
will one day allow for a broader conception of what counts as an “acceptable” body in 
mainstream consciousness. 
 
Noah Arney is a faculty member and Career Services Coordinator at Thompson Rivers 
University. He has a Bachelor of Education in Secondary Teacher Education from the 
University of British Columbia, a BA in English with an extended minor in Theatre from 
the University of the Fraser Valley, and he is currently finishing his Master of Education 
in Educational Research at the University of Calgary. He has been active in the reenactor 
community for nearly twenty years, primarily in the Society for Creative Anachronism, 
and has been cooking from pre-seventeenth century recipes for over ten of those years. 
His area of focus is sixteenth century English food and food preservation. He writes 
about his experiences recreating pre-modern food and sixteenth century rapier at his 
website www.bakerspeel.com. 
	
 Amuse Bouche 
 
Annima Bahukhandi is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Indraprastha College 
for Women, University of Delhi. She completed her MPhil in Sociology from the 
Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. Her research 
interests traverse interdisciplinary boundaries between psychology and cultural 
anthropology. She is particularly interested in issues related to migration, refugees/ 
diasporas, foodways and personal narratives. 
 
 Book Reviews 
 
Kathleen Fleming is a first year Master’s student in the Department of Folklore at 
Memorial University of Newfoundland. She obtained her BA from Memorial, where she 
completed a double major in Folklore and English. She is interested in how food and 
foodways become incorporated into legends and belief systems. 
 



174     Authors  Digest: A Journal of Foodways & Culture 7:2 (2019-2020)	

Rosalind V. Rini Larson is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Folklore and 
Ethnomusicology with a minor in French Linguistics at Indiana University, where she 
also received her MA in Folklore and her dual BA in Folklore and Gender Studies. Her 
research interests center upon foodways, Francophone culture and language, and oral 
history. She is currently at work revising her dissertation about the tradition of fricassee 
soup at church picnics in Vincennes, Indiana, and its connections to community and 
identity, in preparation for her defense this spring. 
 
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. 
 
Lucy M. Long directs the independent non-profit Center for Food and Culture, 
Bowling Green, Ohio, and is adjunct assistant professor at Bowling Green State 
University where she teaches folklore, food studies, ethnic studies, and tourism. She has 
edited and authored numerous foodways publications, including Culinary Tourism 
(2004), Regional American Food Culture (2009), Ethnic American Food Today: A 
Cultural Encyclopedia (2015), Ethnic American Cooking: Recipes for Living in a New 
World (2016); The Food and Folklore Reader (2015); Comfort Food Meanings and 
Memories (2017), and Honey: A Global History (2017). During the Covid-19 pandemic, 
she has been running a virtual ethnography of “Finding Comfort and Discomfort 
through Foodways,” which has resulted in a virtual symposium, an online exhibit 
(www.foodandculture.org), and on-going research and publications. 
 
Sarah T. Schultz 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. 
 
Katrina Wynn is currently a part-time stay at home mom and part-time public library 
worker after finishing up her five-and-a-half-year contract position as manager of the 
Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History at the University of Maine. She held 
that position since graduating from Western Kentucky University with a MA in Folk 
Studies. Katrina was a co-convener of the American Folklore Society’s Foodways Section 
for six years and has been a member of the section since starting graduate school. 


