research and publications

Digital Projects

Ongoing

Mary Eliza Project Visualizations

General Assembly Certificate Work

Data Analytics. 2022

Beyond Simple Voting Records: Exploring The Mary Eliza Project

The Women’s Voter Register Dataset Particular Project Notes

Visual Design. 2021

Infuse Website Design

Boston University. Master of Liberal Arts in Gastronomy. 2021

Metropolitan College Award for Excellence in Graduate Studies in Gastronomy

Visualizations of Historic Cookbooks Workflow

Tableau Public Page for Data Visualizations

Master of Arts in History/Master of Library and Information Science. 2012

Jean Elizabeth Goodrich Digital Scrapbook

Publications

Book Chapters

Kitchings, Laura. “Definitions of Hawaiian Food: Evidence of Settler Colonialism in Selected Cookbooks from the Hawaiian Islands (1896–2021)” In ‘Going Native?' Settler Colonialism and Food, edited by Ronald Ranta, Alejandro Colás, and Daniel Monterescu, 127-146. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.

Conference Proceedings '

Kitchings, Laura. “Provisioning for Adventures: The Meanings of Paddington Bear’s Marmalade Sandwiches.”In Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2022: Portable Food, edited by Mark McWilliams, 156-162. Oxford: Prospect Books, 2023.

White Papers

Elias, Megan J., Laura Kitchings, and Hannah Spiegelman. “Looking for Food in the New Smithsonian Institution Catalog, a White Paper.” AHRC US-UK Food Digital Scholarship Network. September 2020. https://figshare.com/s/68ed8ac4d8fdd50b0b3b DOI: 10.15131/shef.data.12993383

Academic Book Reviews

H-Net Reviews: Kitchings, Laura. “Review of Armanios, Febe; Ergene, Boğaç A. Halal Food: A History.” HEnvironment, H-Net Reviews. May 2020. https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=54707

Conference Presentations

Food and Communication Conference

“Exploring Settler Colonialism in Cookbooks Created in the Hawaiian Islands.” Orebro, Sweden. September 2023.

IEEE Big Data 2022: Computational Archival Science (CAS) Workshop

“Teachable Insights from Working with the Mary Eliza Project for Gastronomy Students Working with Data.” Osaka, Japan. December 2022.

Oxford Food Symposium

“Food Rules in the Pride Lands.” Oxford, United Kingdom. July 2023

“Provisioning for Adventures: Meanings of Paddington Bear’s Marmalade Sandwiches.” Oxford, United Kingdom. July 2022.

Popular Culture Association

“Aspirational Commensality in Holiday Romance Movies: Creating Supportive Community Relationships through Food Events.” San Antonio, Texas. April. 2023 (Panel Chair).

“The Possibilities of the John Mariani Menu Collection (1977-2020). Virtual. April 2022

“Paddington and Pineapples: Exploring Food and Fandom Studies.” Virtual. June 2021

Northeast Popular & American Culture Association

“Aspirational Commensality in Romantic Winter Holiday Movies (2018-2022).” Virtual. October 2023.

“From Commensality to Event Management: The Character Growth of Rose Lindström Nylund through Food Experiences.” Virtual. October 2022.

“The Possibilities of the John Mariani Menu Collection (1977-2020). Virtual. October 2021

“Paddington and Pineapples: Exploring Food and Fandom Studies.” Virtual. University of Southern New Hampshire. October 2020

“Immigrant Foodways in the Pridelands.” Portsmouth, New Hampshire. November 2019

Association for the Study of Food and Society and The Agriculture, Food, And Human Values Society Conference

“Exploring Settler Colonialism in Cookbooks Created in the Hawaiian Islands.” Boston, Massachusetts. May 2023.

“The Possibilities of the John Mariani Menu Collection (1977-2022). Boston, Massachusetts. May 2023.

Textual Analysis, Gendered Cookbooks, and the Developing American Empire (1872-1920). Virtual. June 2021

Exploring Cookbooks through Text Analysis and Data Visualizations. Twitter. July 2020

“Immigrant Foodways in the Pridelands.” Anchorage, Alaska. June 2019

Simmons College Graduate Symposium

“Item Level Description in The Era of More Product, Less Process: The Hazelton Collection.” Boston, Massachusetts. April 21, 2012

Guest Blog Posts

Gastronomy Program at Boston University

Gastronomy Program Receives Gift of John Mariani Menu Collection, February 2020

Summer at Rare Book School. September 2019

New Students: Spring 2018. January 2018

Cookbooks & History: Corn Meal Bread. October 2017

Instant Pot as Community. July 2017

Invited Talks

Culinary Historians of New York

“Paddington and the Marmalade Sandwich.” April 25, 2023

History of Cookbooks class at Boston University’s Metropolitan College

Dr. Karen Metheny, Instructor

Intersections of Food and Information Science: Using Data Visualizations to Explore Printed Cookbooks October 12, 2021, October 10, 2023

Cookbooks, Gender Roles, and Empire: Exploring American Cookbooks and Empire (1872-1920) through Textual Analysis November 9, 2020

Cookbooks of the 1890s October 17, 2019

Workshop Participation

California Rare Book School, Los Angeles, California

Comparative Histories of the Book: East Asia and Europe. August 2022

Feminist Bibliography. Virtual August 2021

History, Identification, and Preservation of Photographic Materials. August 2021

Rare Book School, Charlottesville, Virginia

African American Print Culture in the Nineteenth-Century United States. Virtual June-July 2022

Identifying and Understanding Twentieth-Century Duplicating Technologies. Virtual June-July 2021

The History of the Book in America: A Survey from Colonial to Modern. July-August 2019

Provenance: Tracing Owners and Collectors. January 2019

Folger Institute, Washington, D.C

Eating Through the Archives: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Early Modern Foodways. December 2019

Harvard Law School and Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Juried Photo Exhibitions

Be Studios. Worcester, Massachusetts

“Black White.” September 2021

“For the Love of Worcester.” July 2019

Cambridge Center for Adult Education. Cambridge, Massachusetts

“Snaps Photography Exhibition.” October-December 2013

Food and Wine Certifications

Wine & Spirit Education Trust. Commonwealth Wine School, Cambridge, Massachusetts

WSET Level 1 Sake Award. January 2022

Wine Scholar Guild, Commonwealth Wine School, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Spanish Wine Scholar. December 2021

Wine & Spirit Education Trust. Spirited Grape. Providence, Rhode Island

WSET's Level 2 Award in Wines - Pass with Merit. March 2020