Charlotte Biltekoff

Assistant Professor

Social and cultural aspects of eating habits in the United States with special interest in the culture of food and health.

Degree

Ph. D. Brown University, 2006

Research

Dr. Biltekoff's current project, Hidden Hunger: Food, Health and Citizenship from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Obesity Epidemic, investigates the history of dietary ideals and their relationship to social ideals.  It argues that despite the seeming objectivity of norms of good health, dietary advice has historically served an important ideological and political role.  The project examines four different reform movements and shows how each was shaped by social concerns and provided dietary advice that reflected norms of moral personhood and good citizenship.

Selected Publications

• Biltekoff, C. The Terror Within: Obesity in Post 9/11 U.S. Life. Forthcoming in American

  Studies.

• Biltekoff, C. Strong Men and Women Are Not Products of Improper Food’: Domestic Science and The History of Eating and Identity.”  Journal for the Study of Food and Society 6:1 (winter 2002).

Awards and Honors

• Harriet W. Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning Graduate Teaching Fellowship, Brown University, 2003 - 2005

• Dean’s Fellowship in the History of Home Economics and Human Nutrition, Cornell University, 2003

• Alex W. Macintosh Prize for Best Graduate Student Paper, Association for the

  Study of Food and Society, 2002

Extension of Knowledge Activities  

• AMS 155 - Eating in America
• AMS 101C - Food and Health in American Culture