Participant Info
- First Name
- Shayne Leslie
- Last Name
- Figueroa
- Country
- United States
- State
- NY New York
- shayne.figueroa@gmail.com
- Affiliation
- Independent Scholar
- Website URL
- Keywords
- food, postwar, consumerism, school lunch, institituional
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Dr. Shayne Leslie Figueroa is a food historian and earned her PhD in Food Studies from New York University. Her dissertation examined the social history of the school lunch program in New York City during the postwar period. Dr. Figueroa is an Administrator at NYU and adjunct teaches at NYU and The New School. In addition to school lunch history, she is currently conducting social history research on the organic agriculture movement, as well as the historic place of food in utopian communities.
- Recent Publications
Bentley, Amy and Shayne Leslie Figueroa, “A History of Food in Popular Culture over the Life Span” in Handbook of Food and Popular Culture, eds. Kathleen LeBesco and Peter Naccarato. (London: Bloomsbury Press, 2018).
https://www.nypl.org/blog/2018/06/12/librarian-podcast-ep-95
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @shaynefigueroa
- Country Focus
- Expertise by Geography
- North America, United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- Modern, 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Food History
