James L. Watson
Prof. Watson is an ethnographer who has spent over 30 years working in south China, primarily in villages (Guangdong, Jiangxi, and the Hong Kong region). He learned to speak country Cantonese in the Hong Kong New Territories during the late 1960s and has subsequently worked in many parts of the People's Republic (using Mandarin). His research has focused on Chinese emigrants to London, ancestor worship and popular religion, family life and village organization, food systems, and the emergence of a post-socialist culture in the PRC. In recent years Prof. Watson has worked with graduate students in Harvard's Department of Anthropology to investigate the impact of transnational food industries and genetically modified food in East Asia, Europe, and Russia.
Melissa Caldwell
Melissa Caldwell's research interests, writing projects, and teaching experiences bring together the ethnography of postsocialist Europe with issues of economics, hunger and poverty, social welfare, and transnational aid programs. Her ethnographic fieldwork in an international, church-based food program in Moscow (1997-2002) chronicles the daily lives and experiences of the program's clients, who are primarily elderly Muscovite pensioners and veterans, and their interactions with social services officials and domestic and foreign aid workers. In her other writing projects, Melissa Caldwell addresses related themes that have emerged from her research in Russia: the role of fast food and the emergence of nationalist-oriented food practices, culinary tourism, gardening and healthy foods, transnational religious movements, the politics of remembering and forgetting, and the experiences of black Africans in Moscow society. Her new research examines the significance of summer gardens, nature, and landscape.
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