Food Studies
In this review article, I discuss the third volume in a comprehensive three-volume set about methods in interdisciplinary Food Studies research, considering how the book could be used effectively as a reference and guide for students.
Tamil Nadu
Susan Seizer and I co-authored a paper using our two specialty foci to discuss the socio-linguistic significance of the inclusive "we" and "our" in Tamil culture.
Gender
I shared research on young women college students in Tamil Nadu and their views on global and local food systems at the Transecting Healthy and Sustainable Food in the Asia-Pacific Workshop, at Yale-National University of Singapore, in August 2018.
Presentations
Multiple Ideologies in Local and Traditional Food Advocacy in Tamil Nadu, India
Tamil Nadu
Drawing on ethnographic evidence collected through field research in and around the city of Madurai, Tamil Nadu, this paper explores how the particularities of Tamil history and cultural values shape the current confused status of millets there.
Anthropology
I received funding and support from the Fulbright program for the second part of my dissertation research in India, in the 2015-2016 round of fellowship competitions.
Anthropology
Equivalent in many ways to Culture and Society, this course was the introductory level offering for the cultural anthropology sub-field at the main campus (Rose Hill) of Fordham University in Fall 2015.
Presentations
> Exploring the Relationship Between Tamil Folk Dietetics and Nutrition Science Reference Chera, Madeline. 2015. "Granny's Legitimacy: Exploring the Relationship Between Tamil Folk Dietetics & Nutrition Science." Paper presented in "Nutritional Practices & Cultural Models of Health," Society for the Anthropology of Food &
Presentations
> Notes on Snack Culture in South India Reference Chera, Madeline. 2015. “Between Meals and Meanings: Notes on Snack Culture in South India.” Paper presented in "Place, Consumption, and Health," at the Association for the Study of Food and Society and Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society joint
Tamil Nadu
This paper presents Hindu philosophy as the foundation for an environmentalist ethics conducive to local food systems and the host of social, personal, and environmental benefits that local food advocates associate with those systems.
Presentations
> Health in Heritage or Food to Leave in the Past? Reference Chera, Madeline. 2014. “Millet Madness: Health in Heritage or Food to Leave in the Past?” Paper presented in “Less Palatable, Still Valuable: Taste, Agrobiodiversity, and Culinary Heritage,” Executive Session, at the American Anthropological Association 113th Annual Meeting, Washington,
Presentations
> Considering Delight in Dietary Diversity As Potential Contributor to Health Reference Chera, Madeline. 2012. “Variety as the Spice of Life: Considering Delight in Dietary Diversity as Potential Contributor to Health." Paper presented in “Pleased to Eat You: Exploring the Scope of Pleasure in the Foodscape,” at American Anthropological