Irina Mihalache

Irina D. Mihalache respectfully conducts her research on the territories of the Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabe, Mississaugas of the Credit River, and the Huron-Wendat, where she resides as a settler. She is Associate Professor of Museum Studies at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information and affiliate of the Culinaria Research Center at Univ. of Toronto Scarborough. She co-edited Food and Museums(Bloomsbury, 2017; with Nina Levent) and recently completed work on The Bloomsbury Handbook of Food and Material Cultures(forthcoming Spring 2023; with Liz Zanoni). She is the author of scholarly chapters and articles on histories of women's committees in art museums and their culinary work, museum restaurant menus and museum interpretation, and Canadian women magazines (1900 - 1950s) and recipe exchanges.