Dr. Peter Naccarato
Peter Naccarato, Ph.D., is Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty at Marymount Manhattan College in New York City. His scholarly work focuses on the role of food and food practices in circulating ideologies and sustaining individual and group identities. He has worked collaboratively with Dr. Katie LeBesco for several years and they have published and presented their work at many conferences. Their co-publications include The Bloomsbury Handbook of Food and Popular Culture (Bloomsbury Press, 2018), Culinary Capital (Berg Press, 2012) and Edible Ideologies: Representing Food and Meaning (SUNY Press, 2008). His additional food-studies related research has focused on Italian and Italian- American food and culture, including co-editing Representing Italy Through Food with Zachary Nowak and Elgin Eckert, (Bloomsbury Press, 2017).