Participant Info
- First Name
- Katherine
- Last Name
- Turner
- Country
- United States
- State
- DE Delaware
- katieleonard.turner@gmail.com
- Affiliation
- Rowan University
- Website URL
- Keywords
- Food history, 19th century, 20th century, household labor, industrialization, women's work, women's history
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Katherine Turner has a PhD from the University of Delaware (2008) and is a lecturer at Rowan University.
- Recent Publications
How the Other Half Ate: A History of Working Class Meals at the Turn of the Century. University of California Press, 2014.
Introduction, Food in the American Gilded Age, ed. Helen Zoe Veit, Michigan State University Press, May 2017.
Chapter: “Tools and Spaces: Food and Cooking in Working-Class Neighborhoods,1880-1930,” in Food Chains: From Farmyard to Shopping Cart (Warren Belasco and Roger Horowitz, editors; Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture Series, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008).
Article: “Buying, Not Cooking: Ready-to-Eat Food in Working-class Neighborhoods in American Cities, 1880-1930.” Food, Culture, and Society, Spring 2006 (volume 9, number 1).
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @OtherHalfAte
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century, 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Food History, Gender, Labor, Technology, Urban History, Women
