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Amy Bentley is professor of food studies in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health at New York University Steinhardt and is co-founder of the NYU Urban Farm Lab and the Experimental Cuisine Collective. She completed her PhD on American Civilization in the Department of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests are wide ranging and include the social and cultural history of food, food systems, nutrition and health. Her diverse interests in food studies have resulted in multiple publications in journals, books and on social media covering topics as diverse as the politicisation of domesticity under American food rationing in World War II to a review of anthropologist Sidney Mintz's examination of the sugar industry.

Awards

 * "Inventing Baby Food: Taste, Health, and the Industrialization of the American Diet" won "Best Book Award" from the Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS) in 2015.
 *  "Inventing Baby Food: Taste, Health, and the Industrialization of the American Diet" was a finalist for the James Beard Foundation Award for "Reference and Scholarship" in 2015.

Professional Activities
Bentley serves on a number of editorial and advisory boards dedicated to food studies, including on the journals Food, Culture and Society: An International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research and Food and Foodways: Exploration in the History and Culture of Human Nourishment.