Gabriella M. Petrick
Assistant Professor Food Studies
Phone: 212-998-5796
Email: gabriella.petrick@nyu.edu
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