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Jennifer J. Wallach

Title: Chair

Department: History

College: College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae Link

Education

  • PhD, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2004
    Major: Afro-American Studies
    Specialization: History/ Politics Concentration
    Dissertation: "Remembering Jim Crow: The Literary Memoir as Historical Source Material"
  • BA, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, 1995
    Major: History and English

Current Scheduled Teaching

HIST 6950.717Doctoral DissertationSpring 2025
HIST 6950.735Doctoral DissertationFall 2024
HIST 6940.736Individual ResearchFall 2024
HIST 6279.001Seminar in Cultural HistoryFall 2024 SPOT
HIST 6900.734Special ProblemsFall 2024

Previous Scheduled Teaching

HIST 6950.702Doctoral DissertationSummer 5W1 2024
HIST 6950.717Doctoral DissertationSpring 2024
HIST 6950.736Doctoral DissertationFall 2023
HIST 6279.001Seminar in Cultural HistoryFall 2023 SPOT
HIST 6950.702Doctoral DissertationSummer 5W1 2023
HIST 6950.717Doctoral DissertationSpring 2023
HIST 6950.736Doctoral DissertationFall 2022
HIST 6940.736Individual ResearchFall 2022
HIST 5100.002Seminar in United States HistoryFall 2022 SPOT
HIST 6950.717Doctoral DissertationSpring 2022
HIST 6940.710Individual ResearchSpring 2022
HIST 6950.736Doctoral DissertationFall 2021
HIST 6940.736Individual ResearchFall 2021
HIST 4495.031United States Food HistoryFall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 6950.717Doctoral DissertationSpring 2021
HIST 6940.710Individual ResearchSpring 2021
HIST 6950.736Doctoral DissertationFall 2020
HIST 4495.001United States Food HistoryFall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 6950.717Doctoral DissertationSpring 2020
HIST 6940.710Individual ResearchSpring 2020
HIST 5950.709Master's ThesisSpring 2020
HIST 6940.736Individual ResearchFall 2019
HIST 5950.736Master's ThesisFall 2019
HIST 5950.800Master's ThesisFall 2019
HIST 4900.735Special ProblemsFall 2019
HIST 5950.727Master's ThesisSummer 5W1 2019
HIST 4450.001African American History and Culture Since 1865Spring 2019 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 5950.709Master's ThesisSpring 2019
HIST 5900.717Special ProblemsSpring 2019
HIST 4495.001United States Food HistorySpring 2019 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 6940.736Individual ResearchFall 2018
HIST 5950.736Master's ThesisFall 2018
HIST 5110.001Studies in United States HistoryFall 2018 SPOT
HIST 5950.727Master's ThesisSummer 5W1 2018
HIST 4450.001African American History and Culture Since 1865Spring 2018 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 5950.709Master's ThesisSpring 2018
HIST 6900.704Special ProblemsSpring 2018
HIST 4440.001African American History and Culture to 1865Fall 2017 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 6950.736Doctoral DissertationFall 2017
HIST 5900.717Special ProblemsFall 2017
HIST 4495.001United States Food HistoryFall 2017 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 4450.001African American History and Culture Since 1865Spring 2017 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 4451.001African American History During Segregation EraSpring 2017 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 6950.717Doctoral DissertationSpring 2017
HIST 4440.001African American History and Culture to 1865Fall 2016 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 6950.736Doctoral DissertationFall 2016
HIST 5950.736Master's ThesisFall 2016
HIST 4495.001United States Food HistoryFall 2016 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 5950.709Master's ThesisSpring 2016
HIST 5100.001Seminar in United States HistorySpring 2016 SPOT
HIST 5950.736Master's ThesisFall 2015
HIST 5950.727Master's ThesisSummer 5W1 2015
HIST 4450.001African American History and Culture Since 1865Spring 2015 Syllabus
HIST 6940.710Individual ResearchSpring 2015
HIST 5950.709Master's ThesisSpring 2015
HIST 5900.717Special ProblemsSpring 2015
HIST 4495.001United States Food HistorySpring 2015 Syllabus
HIST 4440.001African American History and Culture to 1865Fall 2014 Syllabus
HIST 5950.736Master's ThesisFall 2014
HIST 5100.001Seminar in United States HistoryFall 2014
HIST 5950.727Master's ThesisSummer 5W1 2014
HIST 4450.001African American History and Culture Since 1865Spring 2014 Syllabus
HIST 4451.001African American History During Segregation EraSpring 2014 Syllabus
HIST 5950.750Master's ThesisSpring 2014
HIST 6900.728Special ProblemsSpring 2014
HIST 4440.001African American History and Culture to 1865Fall 2013 Syllabus
HIST 5950.736Master's ThesisFall 2013
HIST 5900.770Special ProblemsFall 2013
HIST 5110.003Studies in United States HistoryFall 2013
HIST 5950.736Master's ThesisSummer 5W1 2013
HIST 4450.001African American History and Culture Since 1900Spring 2013 Syllabus
HIST 5950.750Master's ThesisSpring 2013
HIST 5900.769Special ProblemsSpring 2013
HIST 6900.728Special ProblemsSpring 2013
HIST 6900.785Special ProblemsSpring 2013
HIST 4261.002Topics in US HistorySpring 2013 Syllabus
HIST 4440.001African American History and Culture to 1900Fall 2012 Syllabus
HIST 5100.001Seminar in United States HistoryFall 2012
HIST 6900.770Special ProblemsSummer 5W1 2012
HIST 4450.001African American History and Culture Since 1900Spring 2012 Syllabus
HIST 5110.002Studies in United States HistorySpring 2012
HIST 4440.001African American History and Culture to 1900Fall 2011 Syllabus
HIST 4900.735Special ProblemsFall 2011
HIST 6900.770Special ProblemsFall 2011
HIST 4261.002Topics in US HistoryFall 2011 Syllabus
HIST 4450.001African American History and Culture Since 1900Spring 2011 Syllabus
HIST 6900.728Special ProblemsSpring 2011
HIST 4261.001Topics in US HistorySpring 2011 Syllabus
HIST 4440.001African American History and Culture to 1900Fall 2010 Syllabus
HIST 4951.002Honors College Capstone ThesisFall 2010
HIST 2685.001Honors United States History Since 1865Fall 2010 Syllabus
HIST 5900.770Special ProblemsFall 2010
HIST 4450.001African American History and Culture Since 1900Spring 2010
HIST 2620.004United States History Since 1865Spring 2010
HIST 4440.001African American History and Culture to 1900Fall 2009
HIST 2620.005United States History Since 1865Fall 2009

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Annotated State of the Field Bibliography

  • Wallach, J.J. (2013). "Richard Wright". Oxford Bibliographies in American Literature, Jackson Bryer and Paul Lauter, eds (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013)..
  • Book

  • Wallach, J.J. (2019). Getting What We Need Ourselves: How Food Has Shaped African American Life.
  • Wallach, J.J. (2019). Every Nation Has Its Dish: African American Food and the Politics of Eating in the Twentieth Century. Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Press.
  • Michael Wise and Jennifer Jensen Wallach, eds.. (2016). The Routledge History of American Foodways.
  • Wallach, J.J. (2015). Dethroning the Deceitful Pork Chop: Rethinking African American Foodways from Slavery to Obama.
  • Wallach, J.J., Swindall, L. (2014). American Appetites: A Documentary Reader.
  • Wallach, J.J. (2012). How America Eats: A Social History of U.S. Food and Culture.
  • John A. Kirk. (2011). Arsnick: The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Arkansas, 1962-1967.
  • Wallach, J.J. (2010). Richard Wright: From Black Boy to World Citizen.
  • Wallach, J.J. (2008). Closer to the Truth than Any Fact: Memoir, Memory, and Jim Crow.
  • Book Chapter

  • Wallach, J.J. (2023). Recipes. Bloomsbury: History and Theory, Engaging with Sources
  • Wallach, J.J. (2016). Food and Race. The Routledge History of American Foodways.
  • Wallach, J.J. (2015). What is the Delta From a Foodways Perspective?. What is the Delta? Janelle Collins, ed.. University of Arkansas Press.
  • Wallach, J.J. (2014). How to Eat to Live: Black Nationalism and the Post-1964 Culinary Turn.
  • Wallach, J.J. (2012). Critical Introduction Yazoo: Integration in a Deep South Town. Yazoo: Integration in a Deep-Southern Town By Willie Morris.
  • Wallach, J.J. (2009). Critical Introduction: Deep South: A Social Anthropological Study of Caste and Class by Allison Davis, Burleigh Gardner, Mary Gardner. Deep South: A Social Anthropological Study of Caste and Class by Allison Davis, Burleigh Gardner, Mary Gardner.
  • Book Review

  • Wallach, J.J. (2023). Upsetting Food: Three Eras of Food Protest in the United States by Jeffrey Hayu. History Teacher.
  • Wallach, J.J. (2022). Sameness in Diversity: Food and Globalization in Modern America.
  • Wallach, J.J. "The Food Supply We Take for Granted". Journal of Urban History.
  • Wallach, J.J. Recipes for Respect: African American Meals and Meaning, by Rafia Zafar. American Historical Review.
  • Wallach, J.J. (2019). Review of Bound to the Fire: How Virginia's Enslaved Cooks Helped Invent American Cuisine.
  • Wallach, J.J. Review of Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement. Journal of American History.
  • Wallach, J.J. (2019). Review of Stirring the Pot with Benjamin Franklin: A Founding Father's Culinary Adventures by Rae Katherine Eighmey.
  • Wallach, J.J. (2018). Review of Food on the Page: Cookbooks and American Culture, by Megan Elias.
  • Wallach, J.J. (2017). Review of the People's Place: Soul Food Restaurants and Reminisces from the Civil Rights Era. Other.
  • Wallach, J.J. (2017). Review of The President's Kitchen Cabinet: The Story of the African Americans Who Have Fed Our First Families from the Washingtons to the Obamas by Adrian Miller. Other.
  • Wallach, J.J. (2016). Hungering for Heritage: Nostalgia and the Rise of Critical Southern Food Studies.
  • Wallach, J.J. (2015). In Meat We Trust: An Unexpected History of Carnivore America by Maureen Ogle.
  • Wallach, J.J. (2015). Review of America's Favorite Holidays by Bruce David Forbes.
  • Wallach, J.J. (2015). Review of Cornbread Nation 7: The Best Southern Food Writing. Southwestern Historical Quarterly.
  • Wallach, J.J. (2015). Review of Food in Time and Place: The American Historical Association Companion to Food History, Paul Freedman, Joyce E. Chaplin, and Ken Albala, eds..
  • Wallach, J.J. (2015). Review of The Vegetarian Crusade: The Rise and Fall of an American Reform Movement.
  • Wallach, J.J. (2015). The Edible South: The Power of Food and The Making of an American Region. Journal of Southern History.
  • Wallach, J.J. (2014). Review of Lunch: A History by Megan Elias.
  • Wallach, J.J. (2014). Review of Soul Food: The Surprising Story of American Cuisine One Dish at a Time.
  • Wallach, J.J. (2014). The Omnivorous Mind: Out Evolving Relationship with Food by John S. Allen.
  • Wallach, J.J. (2013). Seeing the New South: Race and Place in the Photographs of Ulrich Bonnell Philips by Patricia Bellis Bixel and John David Smith Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies (August 2013). Other.
  • Wallach, J.J. (2013). The World in a Skillet: A Food Lover's Tour of the New American South by Paul and Angela Knipple Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies.
  • Wallach, J.J. (2012). Civil Rights History from the Ground Up: Local Struggles, a National Movement, Emilye Crosby editor, Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies.
  • Wallach, J.J. (2012). Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in Popular Culture by Karen L. Cox North Carolina Historical Review (submitted to editor July 2011).
  • Wallach, J.J. (2012). The Taste of War: World War II and the Battle for Food, Lizzie Collingham.
  • Wallach, J.J. (2011). Cooking in Other Women's Kitchens: Domestic Workers in the South, 1865-1960 by Rebecca Sharpless Florida Historical Quarterly 90 (Fall 2011): 233-236..
  • Wallach, J.J. (2011). Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC, edited by Faith S. Holsaert et al. Arkansas Historical Quarterly, 70 (Spring 2011): 88-90.. Other.
  • Wallach, J.J. (2011). High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America by Jessica Harris North Carolina Historical Review (October 2011): 455-456.. Other.
  • Wallach, J.J. (2010). If We Could Change the World: Young People and America's Long Struggle for Racial Equality by Rebecca de Schweinitz. Arkansas Historical Quarterly.
  • Wallach, J.J. (2010). Signs of the Times: The Visual Politics of Jim Crow by Elizabeth Abel Left History, 15 (Fall 2010/ Winter 2011): 210-212..
  • Wallach, J.J. (2009). Many Minds, One Heart: SNCC's Dream for a New America by Wesley Hogan.
  • Wallach, J.J. (2009). Race in the American South from Slavery to Civil Rights, by David Brown and Clive Webb.
  • Wallach, J.J. (2008). Invisible Activists: Women of the Louisiana NAACP and the Struggle for Civil Rights, by Lee Sartain.
  • Wallach, J.J. (2008). Unveiled Voices, Unvarnished Memories: The Cromwell Family in Slavery and Segregation, 1692-1972, by Adelaide M. Cromwell.
  • Wallach, J.J. (2001). "Our National Amnesia About Race: A Review Essay of David Blight's Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory". Ethnic Studies Review.
  • Critical Review

  • Wallach, J.J. (2015). Eating Histories.
  • Wallach, J.J. (2014). When Pig Was Queen.
  • Wallach, J.J. (2010). "The Marketing of Southern Identity," review of Dixie Emporium: Tourism, Foodways, and Consumer Culture in the Jim Crow South, edited by Anthony J. Stanonsis. Other.
  • Wallach, J.J. (2008). "The View from the Slave Quarters," review of Sarah Johnson's Mount Vernon, by Scott Casper.
  • Encyclopedia Article

  • Wallach, J.J. (2008). "Alaine Locke". Encyclopedia of the Jazz Age, edited by James Ciment.
  • Wallach, J.J. (2008). "Arkansas," "Civil Rights Movement," "Southern Tenant Farmers Union," "Daisy Bates," "Great Depression," "Agricultural Adjustment Administration". The Encyclopedia of Jim Crow, edited by Nikki Brown and Barry Stentiford.
  • Wallach, J.J. (2008). "Blackface and Minstrel Shows". Dictionary of American History, Dynamic Reference Edition, edited by Gary Cross, Robert Maddox, and William Pencak.
  • Wallach, J.J. (2008). Contributed thirty-five entries. Encyclopedia of African‑American History, edited by Paul Finkelman.
  • Wallach, J.J. (2007). "Martin Luther King, Jr.". International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, edited by William A. Darity.
  • Wallach, J.J. (2007). "William (Bill) Hansen" and "Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee". The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture.
  • Wallach, J.J. (2005). Contributed twenty entries. The Encyclopedia of African American Society, edited by Gerald Jaynes.
  • Journal Article

  • Wallach, J.J. (2021). Every Crumb of Cake: W.E.B. Du Bois, Food, Intimacy, and Patriarchy. Global Food History. (July 2021)
  • Wallach, J.J. (2020). "Publishing in Food Studies". Historical Geography.
  • Wallach, J.J. (2011). " 'We Became Radicalized by What We Experienced': Excerpts from an Interview with William (Bill) Hansen, Director of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's Arkansas Project," Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies (Summer 2011)..
  • Wallach, J.J. (2008). "Replicating History in a Bad Way?: White Activists and Black Power in SNCC's Arkansas Project". Arkansas Historical Quarterly.
  • Wallach, J.J. (2006). "Building a Bridge of Words: The Literary Autobiography as Historical Source Material". Biography.
  • Wallach, J.J. (2006). "Fawn Brodie and the Struggle for the Historical Memory of Thomas Jefferson".
  • Wallach, J.J. (2002). "The Vindication of Fawn Brodie". The Massachusetts Review.
  • Personal Essay

  • Wallach, J.J. (2019). From Unicorns to Plant-Based Meat: Arkansas, a Diverse Larder. Oxford, MS, Southern Foodways Alliance. https://www.southernfoodways.org/arkansas-food-a-diverse-larder/
  • State of the Field Annotated Bibliography

  • Wallach, J.J. (2016). Food in African American Culture. Oxford Bibliographies in African American Studies, Gene Jarret, ed..
  • Textbook

  • Phelps, W.G., Wallach, J.J. (2022). Containing Multitudes: A Documentary Reader of US History, Volumes I and II. Fayetteville, AR, University of Arkansas Press.
  • Webpage

  • Wallach, J.J. (2016). Food Advertising in the 1930s.

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

    Grant - Research

  • Wallach, J.J., Wise, M.D., "Developing a Food Studies Mentoring Network," sponsored by UNT Office of Facultu Success, University of North Texas, Funded. (2017 - 2018).
  • Wise, M.D. (Co-Principal), Wallach, J.J. (Principal), "UNT Mentorship Network in Food Studies," sponsored by Office of Faculty Success, University of North Texas, $5000.00 Funded. (2016 - 2017).
  • Wallach, J.J., Wise, M.D., "Developing a Food Studies Mentoring Network," sponsored by UNT, University of North Texas, $5000 Funded. ( - 2016).
  • Wallach, J.J., "Culinary Black Nationalisms," sponsored by Scholarly and Creative Activities Grant, University of North Texas, $5000 Funded. ( - 2015).
  • Wallach, J.J., michael, w., "Developing a Food Studies Mentoring Network," sponsored by UNT Office for Faculty Success, University of North Texas, $5000 Funded. ( - 2014).
  • Wallach, J.J., "Publication Subvention for University of Arkansas Press Food and Foodways Series," sponsored by Julia Child Foundation, Private, Funded. ( - 2014).
  • Wallach, J.J. (Principal), "How to Eat to Live: African-Americans and the Post-1964 Culinary Turn," sponsored by Center for the Study of Southern Culture/ Southern Foodways Alliance, Private, $1000 Funded. (2013 - 2014).
  • Grant - Service

  • Wise, M.D. (Other), Wallach, J.J., "UNT Mentorship Network in Food Studies," sponsored by University of North Texas, University of North Texas, $4800 Funded. (2014 - 2015).
  • Grant - Teaching

  • Wallach, J.J., Wise, M., "Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts Fellowship in Food History," sponsored by Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts, National, $10000 Funded. (2020 - 2022).
  • Wise, M.D. (Co-Principal), Wallach, J.J. (Co-Principal), "Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts Graduate Fellowship in Food History," sponsored by Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts, Private, $10000 Funded. (2018 - 2020).
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