Peer Reviewed Publications
Books
In progress The Politics of Adequacy: Food and Everyday Life in Post-Soviet Cuba. Under Contract with Stanford University Press, expected August 2020.
Edited Books
In progress Black Food Culture and Food Justice, Hanna Garth and Ashanté Reese, Eds.
2013 Food and Identity in the Caribbean. Hanna Garth, Ed. London: Bloomsbury.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
2017 [with Michael Powell] Curating Value(s) with the Retail Brand: Rebranding a Corner Store in South Los Angeles. Journal of Business Anthropology. 6(2):175-198.
2017 Food in Contemporary Cuba. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History. William H. Beezley and Robin Derby (Eds.)
2017 "“There is no food”: Coping with Food Scarcity in Cuba Today." Hot Spots, Cultural Anthropology website, March 23.
https://culanth.org/fieldsights/1084-there-is-no-food-coping-with-food-scarcity-in-cuba-today
2014 “They Started to Make Variants”: The Impact of Nitza Villapol’s Cookbooks and Television Shows on Contemporary Cuban Cooking. Food, Culture & Society.
2013 Disconnecting the Mind and Essentialized Fare: Identity, Consumption, and Mental Distress in Santiago de Cuba. In Health Travels: Cuban Health(care) on and off the Island. Nancy J. Burke, Ed., Pp. 54-84. San Francisco, CA: University of California Medical Humanities Press.
2013 Obesity in Cuba: Memories of the Special Period and Approaches to Weight Loss Today. In Reconstructing Obesity: The Meaning of Measures and the Measure of Meanings. Megan B. McCullough and Jessica A. Hardin, Eds., Pp. 89-106. New York: Berghahn Books.
2013 Resistance and Household Food Consumption in Santiago de Cuba. In Food Activism: Agency, Democracy and Economy. Carole Counihan and Valeria Siniscalchi, Eds., Pp. 47-60. London: Bloomsbury.
2012 (Reprinted) Things Became Scarce: Food Availability and Accessibility in Santiago de Cuba Then and Now (Reprint), In Taking Food Public: Redefining Foodways in a Changing World. Psyche Williams-Forson and Carole Counihan, Eds., Pp.59-70. New York: Routledge.
2009 Things Became Scarce: Food Availability and Accessibility in Santiago de Cuba Then and Now. NAPA Bulletin 32: 178-192.
In progress The Politics of Adequacy: Food and Everyday Life in Post-Soviet Cuba. Under Contract with Stanford University Press, expected August 2020.
Edited Books
In progress Black Food Culture and Food Justice, Hanna Garth and Ashanté Reese, Eds.
2013 Food and Identity in the Caribbean. Hanna Garth, Ed. London: Bloomsbury.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
2017 [with Michael Powell] Curating Value(s) with the Retail Brand: Rebranding a Corner Store in South Los Angeles. Journal of Business Anthropology. 6(2):175-198.
2017 Food in Contemporary Cuba. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History. William H. Beezley and Robin Derby (Eds.)
2017 "“There is no food”: Coping with Food Scarcity in Cuba Today." Hot Spots, Cultural Anthropology website, March 23.
https://culanth.org/fieldsights/1084-there-is-no-food-coping-with-food-scarcity-in-cuba-today
2014 “They Started to Make Variants”: The Impact of Nitza Villapol’s Cookbooks and Television Shows on Contemporary Cuban Cooking. Food, Culture & Society.
2013 Disconnecting the Mind and Essentialized Fare: Identity, Consumption, and Mental Distress in Santiago de Cuba. In Health Travels: Cuban Health(care) on and off the Island. Nancy J. Burke, Ed., Pp. 54-84. San Francisco, CA: University of California Medical Humanities Press.
2013 Obesity in Cuba: Memories of the Special Period and Approaches to Weight Loss Today. In Reconstructing Obesity: The Meaning of Measures and the Measure of Meanings. Megan B. McCullough and Jessica A. Hardin, Eds., Pp. 89-106. New York: Berghahn Books.
2013 Resistance and Household Food Consumption in Santiago de Cuba. In Food Activism: Agency, Democracy and Economy. Carole Counihan and Valeria Siniscalchi, Eds., Pp. 47-60. London: Bloomsbury.
2012 (Reprinted) Things Became Scarce: Food Availability and Accessibility in Santiago de Cuba Then and Now (Reprint), In Taking Food Public: Redefining Foodways in a Changing World. Psyche Williams-Forson and Carole Counihan, Eds., Pp.59-70. New York: Routledge.
2009 Things Became Scarce: Food Availability and Accessibility in Santiago de Cuba Then and Now. NAPA Bulletin 32: 178-192.