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Elizabeth Schmidt serves as a Lecturer in History at Pomona College while completing her Ph.D. in History at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) under advisor Erika Rappaport. Her dissertation examines food anxieties and colonial identity formation in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic, focusing on port cities like Philadelphia and Kingston.
She earned an M.A. from Texas A&M University (2014) and a B.A. from the College of Idaho (2011). Her teaching portfolio includes courses on World History, Modern European History, and Food in World History at both UCSB and Pomona College.
Schmidt's research bridges Food History, Atlantic World Studies, and Colonial Identity, analyzing how culinary practices shaped cultural encounters among British colonists, enslaved Africans, and indigenous populations. Her work emphasizes mobility, port city dynamics, and the interplay between domestic economies and imperial conflicts.
Her publications reveal consistent engagement with material culture and identity formation in the eighteenth-century Atlantic, particularly examining race, class, and gender through foodways. Recent work explores Jamaican household dynamics and British culinary identity, demonstrating methodological innovation in using food as a lens for historical analysis.
Schmidt has taught extensively as a Teaching Assistant and Teaching Associate at UCSB for courses including World History, American History, and Historical Methods, while lecturing on Modern European History at Pomona College. Her current teaching includes HIST 193F (Food in World History) during Spring 2024.
