Scholar - Women Also Know History

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Additional Contact Information: Dr. Alex Ketchum received her doctorate from the Department of History at McGill University while focusing on feminist restaurants, cafes, and coffeehouses in the United States and Canada from the 1960s to present day. Her work integrates, food, environmental, and gender history. She has a MA in History and Women and Gender Studies also from McGill University and a Honors BA in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Wesleyan University. At McGill University, she teaches in the Women's Studies Program. In addition to her dissertation research, she is founder and editor of The Historical Cooking Project (historicalcookingproject.com), a website dedicated to food history scholarship. For a full list of her publications, go to alexketchum.ca. She is actively involved in feminist, food, and environmental politics. She was co-manager of an organic farm from 2008-2012 and has worked on organic farms in Ireland and France. In 2009, she founded Farm House in Middletown, Connecticut, a living community dedicated to food politics work that continues today. Buy a copy of How to DIY A Feminist Restaurant (only $4.95 through Microcosm Publishing): https://microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/zines/9138

About Me: Dr. Alex Ketchum received her doctorate from the Department of History at McGill University while focusing on feminist restaurants, cafes, and coffeehouses in the United States and Canada from the 1960s to present day. Her work integrates, food, environmental, and gender history. She has a MA in History and Women and Gender Studies also from McGill University and a Honors BA in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Wesleyan University. At McGill University, she teaches in the Women’s Studies Program.

In addition to her dissertation research, she is founder and editor of The Historical Cooking Project (historicalcookingproject.com), a website dedicated to food history scholarship. For a full list of her publications, go to alexketchum.ca.

She is actively involved in feminist, food, and environmental politics. She was co-manager of an organic farm from 2008-2012 and has worked on organic farms in Ireland and France. In 2009, she founded Farm House in Middletown, Connecticut, a living community dedicated to food politics work that continues today.

Buy a copy of How to DIY A Feminist Restaurant (only $4.95 through Microcosm Publishing): https://microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/zines/9138

Recent Publications: “Counter Culture: The Making of Feminist Food,” Cuizine: Journal of Canadian Food Studies. Volume 2, Number 2. 2016/2017. https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/cuizine/2016-v7-n2-n2/1038477ar/ (open access)

“‘The Place We’ve Always Wanted to Go But Never Could Find’: Finding Woman Space in Ontario’s Feminist Restaurants and Cafes 1974-1982,” Feminist Studies, Issue 44, Number 1, 2018, 126-152. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.15767/feministstudies.44.1.0126

“Memory Has Added Seasoning: The Legacy of Feminist Restaurants in the United States and Canada.” in peer review for Anthropology of Food. forthcoming in 2018.

Media Coverage: https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/eating-out-as-a-feminist https://munchies.vice.com/en/articles/this-consciousness-raising-cafe-wants-you-to-eat-like-a-feminist http://beertodaybeertomorrow.com/index.php/2017/09/29/food-feminism-fermentation/ In