Janet Chrzan

LDE Scholarship Committee ChAIR

Nutritional Anthropologist at the University of Pennsylvania

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Adjunct Assistant Professor of Nutrition at the University of Pennsylvania and holds a Ph.D. in Physical/Nutritional Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania. Her research explores the connections between social activities and health outcomes, including diet during pregnancy, consumer adoption of local and organic food diets, and alcohol intake. She is also interested in the dietary consequences of culinary tourism and has led food, wine, and culture tours to the Loire Valley and Tuscany.

She is the

• Author of Alcohol: Social Drinking in Cultural Context (Routledge, 2013),

• Co-editor of the three-volume set research Methods for the Anthropological Study of Food and Nutrition(Berghahn, 2016),

• Co-editor of Organic Food, Farming and Culture(Bloomsbury, 2019), and

• Co-author of Neurotic Omnivores(Columbia University Press, 2022).

She is the founder of the Oakmont Farmers Market and Haverford Township Farmers Market Association, a founding member of the Keystone Center for Regional Food and Food Tourism, past-president of the Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition, and has served on the boards of health, agriculture and nutrition-related academic and community organizations.

She lives in Media Pennsylvania, where she tends a large vegetable garden and spends her spare time developing recipes for zucchini.