Postdoctoral Associates

Alice Gorton

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.

Alisha Mays

Alisha Mays (she/her) 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.