Nancy Stockdale

Nancy L. Stockdale (associate professor) is a scholar of Middle Eastern history. Her book Colonial Encounters Among English and Palestinian Women, 1800-1948 examined ways that food and menus became markers of imperial exploitation and cultural belonging in the 19th century Middle East, and her current project, Staging the Middle East: Amusements and Knowledge in Great Britain and the United States, 1851-2001 devotes significant attention to restaurants and specially curated food items as symbolic of the Middle East for eaters outside of the region. She is currently editing a volume titled Historical and Contemporary Foodways in the Middle East and North Africa and regularly teaches a popular undergraduate course, entitled "Food, Sex, and Drugs in Middle Eastern History."