CONFERENCE - Tuesday, May 2, 2006
UNDERUTILIZED PLANTS
Their Role in Preventive Medicine, Nutrition, and Sustainability

Applications, Regional Approaches and Challenges
INTRODUCTION
SIDNEY W. MINTZ, PhD
Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University

ABBREVIATED CURRICULUM VITAE (Food - Related only): March 2006

B.A. (Psychology) Brooklyn (NY) College, 1943
PhD  (Anthropology) Columbia University, 1951

Teaching experience: Yale U, 1951-75; Johns Hopkins U, 1975-97; Collge de France, 1988; California (Berkeley) 1996; Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1996,1999;  U Illinois, 2004; also MIT, Princeton, U Otago (NZ), U Adelaide (Australia), U Munich, etc.

Fieldwork experience: Puerto Rico (1948-9), Jamaica (1952), Haiti (1958-9), Iran (1966-7), Hong Kong (1999).

Honors: Yale Phi Beta Kappa Medal for undergraduate teaching,1972; Lewis Henry Morgan Lecturer (U Rochester),1972; Christian Gauss Lecturer (Princeton) 1979; Huxley Medalist (Royal Anthropological Society),1994; Distinguished Lecturer, American Anthropological Association, 1996; WEB DuBois Lecturer (Harvard), 2003; IACP Scholar in residence, 2004; honorary degrees (Yale, Trinity College, U Puerto Rico); Fellow: American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Editorial: boards of Food & Foodways, Journal of Gastronomy, Gastronomica, Journal of Chinese Dietary Culture, and formerly, Appetite.

Books related to the study of food

2003    O poder amargo do açucar. Recife, Brazil (In Portuguese).

1996    Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom. Boston: Beacon Press. 
          (Translations in  Korean, Chinese, forthcoming in Japanese.)

1985    Sweetness and Power. New York: Viking-Penguin. (Translations in 
          German, Dutch, Japanese, Italian, French, Swedish, Turkish, Spanish, 
          Korean, forthcoming in Chinese and Arabic.)

Articles and reviews related to the study of food

About 100, in: Journal of Gastronomy, De Nieuwe Westindische Gids, Suomen Antropologi, Social Research, Ethnology, Gastronomica, IACP Food Forum Quarterly, Nutritional Anthropology, The Scribner Encyclopedia of Food, Atlante dell’ Alimentazione e della Gastronomia, Wall St. Journal, Times Literary Supplement, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, etc., and as chapters in books.

Current Research

Co-edited volume on soyfoods awaiting press decision; book-length Caribbean history ms.  completed; now planning further food-related historical research.