Matthew Morse Booker (Vice President for Scholarly Programs, National Humanities Center; NHC Fellow, 2016–17)

Project Title

The Oyster and the City: The Rise and Fall of the Edible City, 1870-1930

North Carolina State University

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Matthew Booker

Fellowship Work Summary, 2016–17

Matthew Morse Booker completed a chapter for his book The Rise and Fall of the Edible City, 1870–1930. He also revised a chapter "Who Should Be Responsible for Food Safety?" for Food Fights: How the Past Matters to Contemporary Food Debates, edited by Matthew Morse Booker and Charles Ludington (University of North Carolina Press, forthcoming) and completed "The Atlantic Origins of American Food Regulations" for a special issue of Global Environment (forthcoming). In addition, he developed the online application "Oysters in Industrial Manhattan, a Spatial History" with Chelsea Piccone.

Paul S. Sutter, “Public Health and the Panama Canal”

Paul Ushang Ugor, “Socially Responsible Cinema: Femi Odugbemi’s Artistic Vision and the Evolution of Nollywood”

Howard Chiang, “Psychoanalysis in China”

Concluding Panel: Building a Speculative Archive

Food Fights: How History Matters to Contemporary Food Debates

Environmental History: Eating the City

Gregg Mitman, “Bloodborne: Invasion and the Politics of Disease”

Christopher Moore, “Sôphrosunê and Self-Knowledge: An Ancient Greek Virtue and the Modern Condition”

Ryan E. Emanuel, “Water in the Lumbee World: Indigenous Rights and the Transformation of Home”

The Price of Injustice: A Scholar-to-Scholar Conversation

Matthew Morse Booker, “The Rise and Fall of the Industrial Oyster”