Outreach
Work in Local Food Systems
I am trained and experienced as a Food Studies academic, but did you know I have had a number of other jobs in local food systems?
US
Teaching
Community Engaged Teaching and Learning
Community engagement has been a key part of my education, and in my work as an educator, I continue the commitment to rooting my teaching in the local community, making sure it is relevant and creates an impact.
Collaboration
Inclusive Teaching and International Students
In November 2019, I planned and facilitated a lunch-and-learn workshop for International Education Week at the University Center for Excellence in Teaching at IUSB
Environment
Environmental Anthropology
In the course, we discussed the principal theories and methods environmental anthropology utilizes and the issues on which it focuses, by looking at case studies from South Asia and the Midwestern US.
Presentations
Judging Non-Judgement
> Assessing Anthropology Students’ Adoption of Cultural Relativism Reference Chera, Madeline. 2019. “Judging Non-Judgement: Assessing Anthropology Students’ Adoption of Cultural Relativism,” 20th Annual Midwest Conference on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Indiana University South Bend, South Bend, IN, April 2019.
Anthropology
Fulbright
I received funding and support from the Fulbright program for the second part of my dissertation research in India, in the 2015-2016 round of fellowship competitions.
Local Food
FILM REVIEW | Eating Alaska
This film review discusses the strengths and weaknesses of the food systems documentary Eating Alaska as a pedagogical tool and an ethnographic work.
Local Food
Local Foods/Local Cookbooks
In this paper, I consider several examples of local food cookbooks, their implicit and explicit claims, and the degree to which they deliver on these claims.