Carla Cevasco is a scholar interested in food, the body, gender, and race in early America and beyond. She is Associate Professor of American Studies at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. Her first book, Violent Appetites: Hunger in the Early Northeast (Yale University Press, 2022), explores how Indigenous peoples and colonial invaders confronted hunger in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. She is working on a second book, Young and Hungry, a history of feeding infants and children in the United States. Her scholarship has appeared in Early American Studies Studies, New England Quarterly, Art History, and Journal of Early American History. Her public writing has been featured in The Atlantic, TIME, Lapham's Quarterly, Nursing Clio, Common-Place, The Junto, and The Recipes Project. She received a PhD in American Studies and AM in American History from Harvard University, and a BA in English and American Literatures from Middlebury College.
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- Carla Cevasco
- Associate Professor
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Office: RAB 203B
- Office Hours: By appointment (Online)
- Phone: 848.932.3484
- News / Announcements:
- Prof. Carla Cevasco publishes Violent Appetites,
- Professor Carla Cevasco named Early Career Faculty Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice 2024-25
- Courses Taught:
- 050:101:01 - Introduction to American Studies,
- 050:223:01 - Learning from the Past: Early America and the 21st Century,
- 050:272:01 - American Food,
- 050:389:01 - Seminar in American Studies