Psyche Williams-Forson

Psyche Williams-Forson is an American scholar and writer from Virginia. She is currently the associate professor and chair of American Studies at the University of Maryland.

Education

Williams-Forson, who is African-American, holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Maryland (completed in 2002), which are also the fields and institutions related to her Master's work in (1994). Additionally, she completed a certificate in Women's Studies (1994). In 1997, she received her bachelor's degree in English and African-American Studies.[1]

Career and research

She primarily focuses on 19th and 20th century U.S. History - specifically social and cultural history dealing with race, gender, material culture, and food.

Currently, Williams-Forson is working on several projects: food shaming and policing, economic availability of rural Virginian black women, African American class through interiors.[1]

She has participated in various interviews. In 2004, she was interviewed by the Mississippi-based Southern Foodways Alliance.[2] The Food and Society Video Project recorded an interview of Williams-Forson's presentation at Institute of Advanced Study Interdisciplinary Symposium (2001) on "How We Talk About Feeding the World."[3] In 2004, MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry interviewed her on the interdisciplinary nature of food history - "History of Food, Race, and Identity in America."[4]

Awards and fellowships
  • Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Diversity Fellowship[1]
  • Foxworth Creative Enterprise Initiative
  • Academy for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Scholarly work
  • Taking Food Public: Redefining Foodways in a Changing World (2011) edited with Carole Counihan
  • Building Houses out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, & Power (2006)
  • "Other Women Cooked for my Husband: Negotiating Gender, Food, and Identities in an African-American/Ghanaian Household." (2010)
  • "African Americans and Food Stereotypes." (2009)
  • "More Than Just the 'Big Piece of Chicken': The Power of Race, Class, and Food in American Consciousness." (2007)
  • "Suckin' the Chicken Bone Dry: African American Women, History, and Food Culture." (2000)[1]

Further reading
  • The New York Times, Sunday Book Review: "The Gospel Bird" [5]
  • The Huffington Post, "What's Really in that take out box?" Written by Psyche Williams-Forson [6]
  • Food, Fatness, and Fitness Critical Perspectives: "Black Lives Matter, Even in Food Justice." Written by Psyche Williams-Forson [7]

References
  1. "Psyche Williams-Forson | Department of American Studies". amst.umd.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-08.
  2. "Psyche Williams-Forson". Southern Foodways Alliance. Retrieved 2017-03-08.
  3. Food and Society Video Project (2015-04-17), Psyche Williams-Forson: African-American Food Culture (Full), retrieved 2017-03-08
  4. "History of food, race and identity in America". MSNBC. Retrieved 2017-03-08.
  5. Lee, Matt; Lee, Ted (2006-08-13). "'Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs,' by Psyche A. Williams-Forson - The New York Times Book Review". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-03-08.
  6. Williams-Forson, Psyche (2013-04-13). "What's Really in That Take-out Box?". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2017-03-08.
  7. Williams-Forson, Psyche (2016-01-05). "Black Lives Matter, even in Food Justice". Food, Fatness and Fitness. Retrieved 2017-03-08.
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