Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health

Faculty

Gabriella M. Petrick

Assistant Professor Food Studies

Phone: 212-998-5796
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Degrees Held

  • Ph.D Univeristy of Delaware 2006
    History
  • MA Carnegie Mellon University 1999
    History
  • MMH Cornell Univeristy 1997
    Hopsitality Management
  • OAS Culinary Institute of America 1991
  • AB College of the Holy Cross 1989
    Economics and History

Awards

  • 2008 : Hindle Postdoctoral Fellowship, Society for the History of Technology
  • 2008 : W. Gabriel Carras Award, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development for “In Good Taste: Rethinking American History with Our Palates,” Journal of American History (September 2008) co-authored with Gerard J. Fitzgerald
  • 2007 : New York University Research Challenge Fund
  • 2007 : New York University Humanities Initiative Research Fellowship, Humanities Council, New York University
  • 2004 : Sydney M. Edelstein International Student
  • 2004 : Dean’s Fellowship in the History of Home Economics, Cornell University
  • 2004 : Henry Belin du Pont Dissertation Fellowship, Hagley Museum and Library
  • 2003 : National Science Foundation, Dissertation Improvement Grant (0322527)

Publications

  • Forthcoming, Gabriella M. Petrick, Industrializing Taste: Food Processing and the Transformation of the American Diet, 1900-1965 (working title), (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press).
  • Gerard J. Fitzgerald and Gabriella M. Petrick, “In Good Taste: Rethinking American History with Our Palates,” Journal of American History (September 2008).
  • “’Like Ribbons of Green and Gold’: Industrializing Lettuce and the Quest for Quality in the Salinas Valley, 1920-1965,” Agricultural History (Summer 2006): 269-295.
  • Forthcoming, “Feeding the Masses: H.J. Heinz and the Creation of Industrial Food” Endeavour (2008).
  • “The H.J. Heinz Company,” The Business of Food: Encyclopedia of Food and Drink Industries (Westport: Greenwood Press, 2008), 223-224.
  • “Food and Foodways,” in Encyclopedia of Material Culture, eds. Helen Sheumaker and Shirley Teresa Wajda (Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2008): 198-200.
  • “Flemmie Pansy Kittrell,” Notable American Women, Volume Five (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003).
  • “Lonely at the Top: Women Food-Service Executives,” Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly 39:3 (June 1998): 54-60.

Courses

Research Applications

The Role of Food in Social Movements

Food Systems I

Food Systems II

CommunicationWorkshop in Foods and Nutrition: Food and the Media

Food Systems (undergraduate)

Research Interstest

Sensory History--Taste

History of Technology

Food History

Dietary Change

Food Systems and Agriculture