Historian, American Food History Project
National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Ashley Rose Young is the historian of the American Food History Project at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. As a member of the Food History Team, Young focuses on curatorial work, academic research and writing, and public programming. She is co-curating the refresh of the FOOD: Transforming the American Table exhibition, which houses Julia Child’s kitchen. She is also the host and program director of the museum’s live cooking demonstration program, Cooking Up History. Young received her B.A. in history at Yale University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in history at Duke University. Her academic manuscript project is a study of nineteenth-century street food culture in America and is titled, “Nourishing Networks: the Public Culture of Food in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans and the Nation.”
Tuesday, May 21
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM