Claire Bunschoten
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Claire Bunschoten
@clairebnschtn.bsky.social
Independent scholar. PhD from UNC. Former BU Postdoc and NYBG Fellow. Thinking about food studies, materiality, senses via vanilla. Repping the Midwest from the Southeast. Pronounced BUN-SKOH-ten. she/her
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Material Intelligence has released a new issue on 🪶feathers🪶 — from feathered baskets and quills to beds and hats!

(I wrote about sandpaper for their sand issue a few months ago :)

www.materialintelligencemag.org
January 2, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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There is still time to submit books, articles, and chapters that you or friends or colleagues wrote in 2024. Please send titles our way. We want them!
A reminder that we're collecting monographs, articles, and book chapters by non-tenure-track historians for publication in our year-end lists. Anything that comes out in 2024 is eligible! Click through to add your suggestions. 🗃️
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has assembled lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in that calendar year, and we’re doing the same this year for 2024 publi...
contingentmagazine.org
November 25, 2024 at 11:45 PM
Join me and the Institute for Art and Olfaction for a reading of "'Eau de cookie dough': Gourmand Fragrances, Negotiating Nostalgia, and Inedible Food Cultures," followed by a discussion and audience Q&A on Dec. 15 via Zoom.

I'm excited to bring this work out behind the paywall. RSVP info below!
November 25, 2024 at 5:24 PM
Got to take the show on the road (across the Charles) to Harvard last night! An audience member brought in Tanzanian vanilla for us all to smell and take away with us. A great complement to a discussion focusing on vanilla's larger abstraction as a racial signifier.
November 21, 2024 at 12:55 PM
I've been running all around at ASA in community with some dear friends and witnessing some of the greatest thinking. What a gift! But no time to post! Airport recap to come!
November 16, 2024 at 2:01 AM
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@clairebnschtn.bsky.social talking about “eating without eating” and the erotics of consumption through Jessica Simpson’s edible lotion. As a fellow White Girl Millennial, this presentation was funny and damning. So much to think about. #2024ASA
November 15, 2024 at 5:16 PM
I stopped posting on Twitter after the Xification and forgot how to write jokes.
November 12, 2024 at 11:53 PM
Can we do some kinda tomfoolery to get RFK to ban those super bright LED headlights? Something something cortisol face something something harmful anti-vax wellness jargon to boom bam banned?
November 12, 2024 at 11:52 PM
Headed to Baltimore for ASA this week? Come hang with the Critical Food Studies Caucus! There's a lot of great sessions as always so here's caucus programming at a glance! Hope to see you there! (NB our biz meeting has a new room and time but all else is program accurate!): theasa.net/food
Critical Food Studies Caucus @ the 2024 Annual Meeting
Members of this caucus come together to pursue understandings of food consumption and production within historical, social, and ethical contexts.
theasa.net
November 12, 2024 at 5:36 PM
Happy to be in good company and hopeful that bsky can revive that #academictwitter conviviality.
Where are my food historians / food studies peeps? I started a #foodhistory / #foodstudies #starterpack. Absolutely let me know if you'd like to be added (or removed for that matter).

go.bsky.app/Evp1Stc
November 11, 2024 at 6:52 PM