Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health

Gabriella Petrick

Assistant Professor of Nutrition and 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

  • 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)
  • 2003 : University Fellow, University of Delaware
  • 2001 : J. Walter Thompson Research Grant, Duke University
  • 2000 : Hagley Fellow in the History of Technology and Industrialization, University of Delaware

Publications

  • Forthcoming, “Taste and the Historical Imagination,” Journal of American History (September 2008)
  • Forthcoming, “The H.J. Heinz Company,” The Business of Food: Encyclopedia of Food and Drink Industries (Westport: Greenwood Press, 2008)
  • Forthcoming, “Food and Foodways,” Encyclopedia of Material Culture, ABC-Clio, 2007.
  • “’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.
  • “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: Agriculture

Food Systems II: Processing and Industrialization,Communication Workshop in Foods and Nutrition: Food and the Media