Faculty Profile

Jennifer Wallach

Title
Chair
Department
History
College
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

    

Education

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

Current Scheduled Teaching*

HIST 6950.717, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2024

* Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of higher education to make available to the public, a syllabus for undergraduate lecture courses offered for credit by the institution.

Previous Scheduled Teaching*

HIST 6950.736, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2023
HIST 6279.001, Seminar in Cultural History, Fall 2023 SPOT
HIST 6950.702, Doctoral Dissertation, Summer 5W1 2023
HIST 6950.717, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2023
HIST 6950.736, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2022
HIST 6940.736, Individual Research, Fall 2022
HIST 5100.002, Seminar in United States History, Fall 2022 SPOT
HIST 6950.717, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2022
HIST 6940.710, Individual Research, Spring 2022
HIST 6950.736, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2021
HIST 6940.736, Individual Research, Fall 2021
HIST 4495.031, United States Food History, Fall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 6950.717, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2021
HIST 6940.710, Individual Research, Spring 2021
HIST 6950.736, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2020
HIST 4495.001, United States Food History, Fall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 6950.717, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2020
HIST 6940.710, Individual Research, Spring 2020
HIST 5950.709, Master's Thesis, Spring 2020
HIST 6940.736, Individual Research, Fall 2019
HIST 5950.736, Master's Thesis, Fall 2019
HIST 5950.800, Master's Thesis, Fall 2019
HIST 4900.735, Special Problems, Fall 2019
HIST 5950.727, Master's Thesis, Summer 5W1 2019
HIST 4450.001, African American History and Culture Since 1865, Spring 2019 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 5950.709, Master's Thesis, Spring 2019
HIST 5900.717, Special Problems, Spring 2019
HIST 4495.001, United States Food History, Spring 2019 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 6940.736, Individual Research, Fall 2018
HIST 5950.736, Master's Thesis, Fall 2018
HIST 5110.001, Studies in United States History, Fall 2018 SPOT
HIST 5950.727, Master's Thesis, Summer 5W1 2018
HIST 4450.001, African American History and Culture Since 1865, Spring 2018 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 5950.709, Master's Thesis, Spring 2018
HIST 6900.704, Special Problems, Spring 2018
HIST 4440.001, African American History and Culture to 1865, Fall 2017 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 6950.736, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2017
HIST 5900.717, Special Problems, Fall 2017
HIST 4495.001, United States Food History, Fall 2017 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 4450.001, African American History and Culture Since 1865, Spring 2017 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 4451.001, African American History During Segregation Era, Spring 2017 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 6950.717, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2017
HIST 4440.001, African American History and Culture to 1865, Fall 2016 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 6950.736, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2016
HIST 5950.736, Master's Thesis, Fall 2016
HIST 4495.001, United States Food History, Fall 2016 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 5950.709, Master's Thesis, Spring 2016
HIST 5100.001, Seminar in United States History, Spring 2016 SPOT
HIST 5950.736, Master's Thesis, Fall 2015
HIST 5950.727, Master's Thesis, Summer 5W1 2015
HIST 4450.001, African American History and Culture Since 1865, Spring 2015 Syllabus
HIST 6940.710, Individual Research, Spring 2015
HIST 5950.709, Master's Thesis, Spring 2015
HIST 5900.717, Special Problems, Spring 2015
HIST 4495.001, United States Food History, Spring 2015 Syllabus
HIST 4440.001, African American History and Culture to 1865, Fall 2014 Syllabus
HIST 5950.736, Master's Thesis, Fall 2014
HIST 5100.001, Seminar in United States History, Fall 2014
HIST 5950.727, Master's Thesis, Summer 5W1 2014
HIST 4450.001, African American History and Culture Since 1865, Spring 2014 Syllabus
HIST 4451.001, African American History During Segregation Era, Spring 2014 Syllabus
HIST 5950.750, Master's Thesis, Spring 2014
HIST 6900.728, Special Problems, Spring 2014
HIST 4440.001, African American History and Culture to 1865, Fall 2013 Syllabus
HIST 5950.736, Master's Thesis, Fall 2013
HIST 5900.770, Special Problems, Fall 2013
HIST 5110.003, Studies in United States History, Fall 2013
HIST 5950.736, Master's Thesis, Summer 5W1 2013
HIST 4450.001, African American History and Culture Since 1900, Spring 2013 Syllabus
HIST 5950.750, Master's Thesis, Spring 2013
HIST 5900.769, Special Problems, Spring 2013
HIST 6900.728, Special Problems, Spring 2013
HIST 6900.785, Special Problems, Spring 2013
HIST 4261.002, Topics in US History, Spring 2013 Syllabus
HIST 4440.001, African American History and Culture to 1900, Fall 2012 Syllabus
HIST 5100.001, Seminar in United States History, Fall 2012
HIST 6900.770, Special Problems, Summer 5W1 2012
HIST 4450.001, African American History and Culture Since 1900, Spring 2012 Syllabus
HIST 5110.002, Studies in United States History, Spring 2012
HIST 4440.001, African American History and Culture to 1900, Fall 2011 Syllabus
HIST 4900.735, Special Problems, Fall 2011
HIST 6900.770, Special Problems, Fall 2011
HIST 4261.002, Topics in US History, Fall 2011 Syllabus
HIST 4450.001, African American History and Culture Since 1900, Spring 2011 Syllabus
HIST 6900.728, Special Problems, Spring 2011
HIST 4261.001, Topics in US History, Spring 2011 Syllabus
HIST 4440.001, African American History and Culture to 1900, Fall 2010 Syllabus
HIST 4951.002, Honors College Capstone Thesis, Fall 2010
HIST 2685.001, Honors United States History Since 1865, Fall 2010 Syllabus
HIST 5900.770, Special Problems, Fall 2010
HIST 4450.001, African American History and Culture Since 1900, Spring 2010
HIST 2620.004, United States History Since 1865, Spring 2010
HIST 4440.001, African American History and Culture to 1900, Fall 2009
HIST 2620.005, United States History Since 1865, Fall 2009

* Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of higher education to make available to the public, a syllabus for undergraduate lecture courses offered for credit by the institution.

Published Publications

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.
Wise, M. D., Wallach, J. J. (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.
Wallach, J. J. (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.

Awarded Grants

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. (20172018).
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. (20162017).
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. (20132014).
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. (20142015).
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. (20202022).
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. (20182020).
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