Dr. Rachel Brown

Biography

Rachel Brown is a scholar specializing in the intersection of food, religion, and migration. She obtained her PhD in Religion and Cultural Studies from Wilfrid Laurier University in 2016, following her M.A. in Religious Studies from McMaster University in 2009 and her B.A. (Honours) in Religious Studies from the University of Waterloo in 2007. Currently serving as a part-time contract Assistant Teaching Professor at the University of Victoria in the Religion, Culture and Society Program within the Department of Anthropology, Dr. Brown has previously taught as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of Evansville. Her primary research interests lie in how members of minority communities create, maintain, and present their religious, cultural, and ethnic identities through food practices in secular contexts. She investigates the dynamics of minority communities, how they adapt and transform within diverse cultural landscapes in North America and Europe. Dr. Brown's PhD dissertation focused on an ethnographic case study of North African Muslim immigrants in Paris, France, and Montreal, Canada, exploring their relationships with their homelands and hostlands through the lens of religion, culture, and food practice.

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