LAUREN REBECCA HINKLE JANES

CPhil in History, UCLA 2006; MA in History, UCLA 2006; BA in History, French, and Religion, Hope College, MI 2004.

Phone: 310-696-9348
Fax: 310-206-7833
E-mail: ljanes@ucla.edu

Field

Modern France, Food History, Colonialism, Women's History

Research Interests

The Familiar and the Exotic: the promotion and consumption of colonial foods in interwar Paris.

Notes

Teaching experience includes creating and teaching the seminar "Nuns confront the Reformation and Counter-Reformation" (2007), and three summers as the Teaching Fellow for the UCLA History Department's Summer Session program in Paris with Professor Teo Ruiz.

Publications

“Python, sauce de poisson et vin : produits des colonies et exotisme culinaire aux Déjeuners amicaux de la Société d’acclimatation, 1905-1939” in Eva Barlosius, Martin Bruegel, and Marilyn Nicoud (eds.) Informations et pratiques alimentaires, (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, forthcoming 2010).

"Exotic Eating in Interwar Paris: Dealing with Disgust," Food and History, forthcoming 2010.

Grants and Awards

2005-2006 Academic year FLAS for Arabic,
Summer 2006 Graduate Research Mentorship, 2007-2008 Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales history exchange fellow.

Advisors

Caroline Ford, Andrew Apter

Conference Presentations

“Exotic Eating in Interwar Paris,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, New York, NY, January 5, 2009.

“Feeding France: The Promotion of Colonial Foods by the Société d’acclimatation,” presented at the 6e Colloque de la Institut Européen d'Histoire et des Cultures de l'Alimentation, Tours, France, March 28, 2008.

"The Familiar and the Exotic: Food at the 1931 Colonial Exposition" presented at the Society for French Historical Studies, March 17, 2007.

"Eating the Empire: Food at the Colonial Exposition of 1931" presented at Hope College, Spring 2006.

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