Dr. Daniel Bender

Biography

Daniel Bender is a Canada Research Chair in Food Culture and the Director of the Culinaria Research Centre. His research focuses on food and drink, with particular attention to themes of empire and global labour history. He is currently working on a project examining the connections between wine and empire, as well as the role of sommeliers in these narratives. Bender is the author of the forthcoming book 'The Food Adventurers: How Around-the-World Travel Changed the Way We Eat' (Reaktion, 2023) and co-editor of 'Food Mobilities: Making World Cuisines' (University of Toronto Press, 2023). His previous publications include 'The Animal Game: Searching for Wildness in the American Zoo' (Harvard University Press, 2016), and 'Making Empire Work: Labor and United States Imperialism' (co-edited, NYU Press, 2015). His work has appeared in prominent journals such as Gastronomica and the Journal of Social History, and he is a co-host of the Gastronomica Podcast on Heritage Radio Network. Bender is also a member of the Editorial Collective of Radical History Review and serves as its co-chair for the Editorial Collective of Gastronomica: Journal of Food Studies.

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