I am a social and cultural historian of all things mobile, especially people and food. My teaching and research focus centers on U.S. and global migration, food, gender, and consumer and material culture, and on transnational and interdisciplinary approaches. Since 2011 I have worked in the History Department at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, where I am currently Associate Professor. At ODU, I teach U.S. history courses from a global perspective, U.S. and global migration and food history courses, and historical methods. Finally, as Internship Coordinator, I oversee students doing internships in public history fields in the Hampton Roads area.

Migrant Marketplaces of the Americas: Italians in North and South America is my first book, published in 2018 with the University of Illinois Press. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Food and Material Cultures, which I have co-edited with Irina D. Mihalache (University of Toronto), will be published by Bloomsbury Academic in early 2023.

I am also an executive editor of two peer-review history publications: Global Food History (Taylor & Francis) and Studies in Global Migration History book series (Brill).

My academic career began at the University of Notre Dame, where I received my B.A. in American Studies and Journalism. I have an M.A. in History from Western Michigan University, and my Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota.

On this site, you can learn more about my research, publications, and teaching.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

Email: ezanoni@odu.edu

University address:

Elizabeth Zanoni (she, her, hers)

8000 Batten Arts and Letters

Old Dominion University

Norfolk, VA 23529