Email address: JoshuaLopez4@my.unt.edu

Preferred Pronouns: He/Him

Major Professors: Jennifer Jensen Wallach and Michael D. Wise

I am a PhD candidate in the department of History at UNT where I study oral history and U.S. Latinx food cultures. I use oral history methodologies to record food-centered life histories, and I listen to how people create, sustain, challenge, and transform notions of heritage and identity, cultural authenticity, place, and belonging through their everyday food practices. I also write about how oral history and food cultures create a space to think about the relationships between the university and their surrounding communities and the geographies from which knowledge is created. I am a co-editor and contributor to El Paso Food Voices, an open-source digital archive and oral history project of El Paso, Texas's food cultures. I also co-authored the peer-reviewed annotated bibliography on Latinx in the Food Industry for the Oxford Bibliographies in Latino Studies. Currently, I am a Racial Justice Pedagogy Fellow for the Association for the Study of Food and Society, where I am developing a syllabus on Latinx in the Food System.

Select Awards and Fellowships:

2023-2024 Association for the Study of Food and Society Racial Justice Pedagogy Fellow

2022-2023 Emerging Scholar of Color at the Center for Latino Studies, University of Houston-Downtown

2019-2021 UNT Department of History Inaugural Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts Fellow