Email: Nathalieross@my.unt.edu

Preferred Pronouns: She/Her/Hers

Dissertation title: The People of the Cookbook: a History of Jewish Cookbooks in America 1850s-present.

Major Professor: Dr. Wallach

Areas of interest: I am a third-year doctoral student specializing in Jewish Food Studies. I am particularly interested in how cookbooks transmit and affirm Jewishness and how they uphold or shatter gender, class, and race norms. In addition, areas of specialty are memory and representation, gender and sexuality in the Americas, and the Holocaust in Greece.

Publication:

• "Mikveh: Creation, Destruction, and Renewal" in Prism, Spring 2019, Volume 11, pp. 24-29

Awards:

• Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and Culinary Arts Fellow in Food Studies 2021-2023
• JISP (Jewish and Israel Studies Program) 2020-2021 Scholarship Recipient
• JISP (Jewish and Israel Studies Program) 2021-2022 Scholarship Recipient
• Grant from the Texas Jewish Historical Society for People of the Cookbook Project 2020-2021