The Food Studies program is pleased to recognize the outstanding work of its undergraduate and graduate students for excellence. Congratulations to our Award Winners!
Food Studies Award winners:
Emma Tyler Rothman
Community Engagement Award
This is awarded to a Food Studies major or minor who demonstrates the ability to create or implement progressive food-based initiatives which engage diverse politics locally, nationally, or internationally.
Emma Rothman began her community engagement journey at the age of 13 with Hearts for Emma. Since then, she has continued pursuit of community engagement. She was the first Engagement Scholar at the Blackstone LaunchPad encouraging students to find ways to create community impact through entrepreneurship. While Emma’s interest in creating positive change in communities extends beyond the scope of food studies but she emphasizes that food is a powerful mechanism for change. Her internship has taken her to Salt City Harvest Farm whose mission is “growing food, culture, and community.” Emma has been the recipient of many past scholarships for her commitment to community engagement and we are proud to recognize her as the Falk College Food Studies Community Engagement recipient this year.
Trinity Benton
Food Studies Culture and Commensality Award
This is awarded is given to the Food Studies major who has expanded the Food Studies program to new audiences by sharing food knowledge and practice through social activism. Trinity is the Kitchen Technician for our culinary programming and earned her undergraduate degree through working and going to college part time. She’s a delight to have around. Always positive and friendly and an excellent student.
Lisa Bush
Food Studies Research Award
This is awarded to a Food Studies major who produces a research project and paper of exceptional quality. The paper should address substantial issues regarding the sustainability of the food system including food justice, human rights or ecological, economic, and social impacts of food production, consumption, processing and distribution.
Nel Gaude
Chef’s Prize
This is awarded to a Food Studies graduate who demonstrates exceptional ability in the culinary arts. This ability should also include food justice and community engagement goals of the Food Studies Program. Nel worked in the culinary industry before coming to Food Studies and was a Learning Assistant for our culinary classes. She is committed to helping her community wherever she resides through her work on making the food system more equitable and sustainable.
Sydney M Taylor
Food Justice Award
This is awarded to a Food Studies major or minor who demonstrates the ability to successfully address food justice related issues through a variety of mediums. Sydney’s practicum work at St. Martha’s Center for Rehabilitation and Health Care embodies the essence of this award. She facilitates the running of the food service to keep the residents nourished, full and content.
Anna Zoodsma (Graduate)
Roseane do Socorro Gonçalves Viana Human Rights Award
Viana Human Rights Award for the best graduate or undergraduate paper on the human right to food, nutrition, and/or health. Selection to be made by a committee: of two or three; headed by someone other than Anni Bellows from the Food Studies Program. Roseane do Socorro Gonçalves Viana, Brazilian nutritionist and right to adequate food activist and writer, left a powerful message of hope and belief in the essential goodness of each and every person, of the need to take on our individual and collective responsibilities to ensure the welfare and dignity of all and for each and every one, that all struggles are important and must be respected, and, most of all, that the voices of the affected must be heard.
Anna’s paper, “Migration as Recourse: The Human Rights of Migrant Women Across the Americas” received the first-place designation in the Graduate Paper category. Anna’s argument that migration should be understood as an act of human rights recourse is powerful and recognized as a very interesting theoretical contribution.
Emma Tyler Rothman (Undergraduate)
Roseane do Socorro Gonçalves Viana Human Rights Award
Viana Human Rights Award for the best graduate or undergraduate paper on the human right to food, nutrition, and/or health. Selection to be made by a committee: of two or three; headed by someone other than Anni Bellows from the Food Studies Program. Roseane do Socorro Gonçalves Viana, Brazilian nutritionist and right to adequate food activist and writer, left a powerful message of hope and belief in the essential goodness of each and every person, of the need to take on our individual and collective responsibilities to ensure the welfare and dignity of all and for each and every one, that all struggles are important and must be respected, and, most of all, that the voices of the affected must be heard.
Emma’s paper, “The Contradiction Between the Largest Anti-Hunger Program in America and Its Mission of Promoting Food Security Self-Sufficiency Among Recipients” received the first place designation in the Undergraduate Paper category.