I’m a writer, speaker, and scholar interested in the history of food in the United States. I am Associate Professor of American Studies at Rutgers University-New Brunswick.

My new book, Fed Up: The True History of Why You’re So Stressed about What to Feed the Kids, is coming in April 2027 from the University of North Carolina Press.

My first book, Violent Appetites: Hunger in the Early Northeast, was published in 2022 with Yale University Press.

I have written for The Atlantic, TIME, and Lapham’s Quarterly, and my scholarship has appeared in Early American Studies, New England Quarterly, Art History, and Journal of Early American History.