Dr. Gabriella Petrick is recipient of the W. Gabriel Carras Award for 2008

Dr. Gabriella Petrick, Assistant Professor in the Food Studies program, is the recipient of the 2008 W. Gabriel Carras Award. This annual award for promising young scholars was established in 2004 and is given to a member of the faculty who is in the first or second year of their pre-tenure appointment. The award is named in honor of former associate dean and professor emeritus W. Gabriel Carras in recognition of his many years of invaluable mentoring of junior faculty.

Dr. Petrick receives this award in honor of her article, "In Good Taste: Rethinking American History with Our Palates" (co-authored with Gerard J. Fitzgerald) which will be published in the Journal of American History in September 2008.