Staff Profiles

Professor Barbara Santich | Rachel Ankeny

Professor Barbara Santich

Barbara Santich is an internationally renowned food scholar who has been researching and teaching food history and food culture at the University of Adelaide for ten years. She is a dedicated and passionate teacher, and in 2005 was awarded both the inaugural Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Award for Teaching Excellence and the University's Stephen Cole The Elder Prize for Excellence in Teaching. Barbara's research interests are wide-ranging, though more particularly focused on Australia and France. She is the author of six books, with a new title to be published in early 2012, and has a long list of academic publications as well as journalistic articles to her credit. In 2007 Barbara introduced a Graduate Certificate in Food Writing, now articulated with the Graduate Program in Food Studies. [read more]

Associate Professor Rachel Ankeny

Rachel A. Ankeny is an interdisciplinary teacher and scholar whose areas of expertise cross three fields: history/philosophy of science, bioethics and science policy, and food studies. In the past five years, she has been an academic visitor at the University of Exeter, the London School of Economics, and Arizona State University, and has given invited talks at major institutions including the University of Michigan, Duke University, and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin). Her research is considered highly interdisciplinary, scholarly, and generally accessible, evidenced by the fact that her talks are typically attended not only by academics but also members of the general public. She also is well-recognized as a scholar who can translate academic findings in ways that are relevant for students and the broader community. [read more]