Kathleen Burke

New York University Shanghai

Kathleen Burke received her PhD in History and Food Studies from the University of Toronto and is presently a Research Fellow of Global Asia at New York University Shanghai. In 2023, she won a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship from the European Union. Her current book project explores trans-imperial connections in global food cultures in the early modern Indian Ocean, highlighting how local women shaped the continuity of culinary knowledge across Portuguese, Dutch, and English maritime empires, connecting historiographies which are rarely investigated alongside each other. Her most recent publication is “‘I Hope it Tastes Good’: Gender, Race and Class in Colonial Kitchens in the Dutch Indian Ocean Empire”, which was published in Gender & History.

Presentation(s):

• Food, History and Memory II

  Wednesday, July 31, 2024
  09:00 – 10:45 (GMT+7)

• Spices are Just One Side of the Story: Unravelling Colonial Cuisine in Indonesia

  Wednesday, July 31, 2024
  09:00 – 10:45 (GMT+7)