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Contributors to Digest 10:1/2 (2023) 
 
Lisa Marie Beiswenger received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from The Ohio State University. Her 
training includes advanced degrees in Literature, Media, and Cultural Studies, as well as a graduate 
interdisciplinary specialization in Folklore. She studies public markets, food culture, laborlore, 
folkcraft, and commodity fetishism. She is currently an Assistant Professor of English at Saint 
Francis University in Loretto, PA.  
 
jen berger is an interdisciplinary artist and community-engaged educator. She uses performance, 
visual arts, painting, printmaking, and installations to engage in social issues from reproductive 
rights, to ecological issues, to racial justice and economic equality. jen has worked with students and 
community members within the Vermont community for over 15 years and has been faculty at 
Champlain College, CCV, Burlington College, and the University of Vermont, where she works to 
consider the role of art in social change, engagement, and protest. She incorporates multiple 
mediums in the classroom to engage in deeper dialogue about these social issues and the ways we 
understand ourselves in the world. www.attherootvt.com 
 
Sheila Bock is an associate professor in the department of Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic 
Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her scholarly explorations of food and foodways 
traverse a variety of domains, including health and illness, humor, political performance, and, most 
recently, the expressive culture of death. 
 
Zoë Campos is a student at Champlain College in Burlington, VT, studying Game Design with a 
minor in Interactive Narrative (Class of 2025). As a first-generation college student of Nicaraguan 
descent, learning is a privilege that Zoe  will never take for granted. When Zoe 's not busy as a full-
time student, she enjoys painting, drinking tea, reading, and journaling. She also speaks English and 
Spanish and is in the process of learning Japanese.  
 
Susan Eleuterio is co-author of "Even Presidents Need Comfort Food: Tradition, Food and Politics 
at the Valois Cafeteria" in Comfort Food: Meanings and Memories, and essays on Belize, Cape Verde, 
Portugal, and Slovakia. She is co-author of essays on Angola, Central African Republic, Columbia, 
Guinea-Bissau, Maldives, Mauritius, Mexico, Laos, Sao Tome and Principe, and Timor-Leste in Ethnic 
American Food Today: An Encyclopedia edited by Lucy M. Long. 
 
Isaura Valeria Garcia graduated magna cum laude from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 
2022 with a B.A. in Anthropology. Her research interests are primarily focused on exploring the 
complex interconnectivity between history, gender, race, class, medicine, politics, and migration as 
they relate to the creation and evolution of cultures and social systems.  
 
Miriam Horne is an assistant dean and professor in the Core Division at Champlain College in 
Burlington, VT. With a background in Composition and Rhetoric, Miriam prioritizes the scholarship 
of teaching and learning (SoTL) in areas ranging from civic discourse to collective writing practices, 
and, most recently the intersections between weaving and pedagogy.  Her work has been published 
in The International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, College Teaching, and 
Writing in Knowledge Societies. 
 
 
Mike Lange is an anthropologist and folklorist, and a professor in the interdisciplinary general 
education curriculum, the Core, at Champlain College. His work centers on narrative, identity, the 
culture of higher ed, and food. His books include Norwegian Scots and Meanings of Maple.  

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Lucy M. Long is a folklorist (Ph.D. Folklore, University of Pennsylvania) who teaches adjunct at 
BGSU primarily in the School of Cultural and Critical Studies. She directs the independent non-profit 
Center for Food and Culture, and has published extensively on a variety of topics around food, 
including Her publications include: Culinary Tourism (2004), Regional American Food Culture 
(2009), Ethnic American Food Today (2015), Food and Folklore Reader (2015), Honey: A Global 
History (2017), and Comfort Food Meanings and Memories (2017). 
 
Cora Mardin is a third-year student in the Digital Filmmaking major at Champlain College, 
specializing in video editing and motion graphics with a minor in digital marketing.  
 
Jerry L. Reed is a Library Science Master's student at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro 
and an independent folklorist. He worked with the Center for Food and Culture on a project 
studying comfort foods during the COVID-19 pandemic and has research interests in foodways, 
youth culture, and digital communities. His works include: “Discomforting Foodways: Reflections on 
The Challenges Faced by Individuals During the COVID-19 Pandemic” (2022) and “You are What 
Others Eat: Informal Economics and Middle School Social Hierarchies” (2020).  
 
David Rous is an adjunct faculty member at Champlain College, and his research interests include 
colonial history, modern American history, and media studies. 
 
Katheryn Wright is Roger H. Perry Endowed Chair and Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary 
Studies. Her academic and creative work examine cultural, embodied practices connected to the 
intersection of digital and physical environments. She is the author of The New Heroines: Female 
Embodiment and Technology in 21st Century Popular Culture (2016). Dr. Wright has written book 
chapters and articles on topics including dark tourism, screen culture, posthuman studies, 
speculative education, spatial storytelling, digital humanities, and experiential learning.  


