Pardee Director and Summer Fellows at the African Studies Association’s 54th Annual Meeting Program

Pardee Center Director, Prof. James C McCann and Summer Fellows Natalie Mettler and Arianna Fogelman-Huhn attended the African Studies Association 54th Annual Meeting Program. The conference, titled “50 Years of African Liberation” was held in Washington, D.C. from November 16 – 19, 2011.

Prof. McCann chaired the panel on “Perspectives on Food Soverignty: Taste, Technology, and the Environment” and Mettler and Fogelman-Huhn presented papers at the same panel. Mettler, who was in the 2011 class of the Pardee Summer Fellows Program, presented her paper on Beyond Paternalism: Colonial Food Policy and the Disruption of Local Diets in French Sudan, French West Africa, 1914-1945 while Fogelman-Huhn, who was in the 2009 class of the Pardee Summer Fellows Program, presented on Why People Eat (What They Eat) in Northern Mozambique.

Fogelman-Huhn also published a Pardee Issue Brief on nutrition in Sub-saharan Africa titled The Changing Shape of Malnutrition: Obesity in sub-Saharan Africa. The paper is available for download here.