HUNGER CCA Seminar Theme

  • Hunger Seminar
  • Event Date: Mar 25, 2026
  • Event Time: 1:00-4:00 PM

Alisha Mays, CCA Postdoctoral Associate
Alisha has a PhD in cultural anthropology from the University of Kentucky. Her research explores hunger, poverty, and charitable food economies. Alisha's work bridges ethnographic research and advocacy, illuminating the broader structures of inequality. 

Alice Gorton, CCA Postdoctoral Associate
Alice is an historian working on agricultural expansion in the British Empire, with a particular emphasis on settler states. She is currently working on a book based on her dissertation project titled Earth Hunger: Agriculture, Settler Colonialism, and the Global Grain Trade, 1846-1914. Her work explores the interconnectedness between dispossession, industrial development, and scientific change on the agrarian frontier.