Participant Info
- First Name
- Juneisy
- Last Name
- Hawkins
- Country
- United States
- State
- info@historicalfoodways.com
- Affiliation
- Florida International University
- Website URL
- https://historicalfoodways.substack.com/
- Keywords
- food history, culinary history, illicit food trade, transimperial trade, smuggling, American Southeast, cultural history, 18th century, colonial North America, Anglo-Spanish trade, Atlantic World, contraband, Florida, South Carolina, trading companies, entanglement, Greater Caribbean, commerce
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Juneisy Q. Hawkins holds a PhD in United States from New York University. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor at Florida International University, where she teaches classes on US history.
She specialized in informal food economies, Anglo-Spanish food trade, and food culture in the colonial American Southeast in an early-modern Atlantic worlds context. Her research focuses mainly on 18th-century Spanish Florida and South Carolina, but also incorporates colonies like Georgia, New York and Havana.
She also works on culinary and food history for the general public. She adapts historical recipes for the modern kitchen and places them in historical context. Additionally, she writes about food culture, both historical and modern, and culinary travel.
- Recent Publications
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Bluesky
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- Atlantic, North America, United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 17th century, 18th century, Early Modern
- Expertise by Topic
- American Founding Era, Colonialism, Diplomacy, Food History, Local & Regional
