Nicolaas J. Mink
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Office: 236 CCC Phone: 346-4493 E-mail: nmink@uwsp.edu Title: Associate Lecturer Education: Ph.D. (expected 2010) University of Wisconsin-Madison M.A. University of Montana B.A. University of Wisconsin-Madison |
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Courses Taught:
History 177 United States Since 1877
Dissertation: "The Restaurant: Food, Power, and Social Change"
Specialization: Food Studies; Cultural and Environmental History; Women and Gender; Business and Technology
Recent Publications:
"Having our Cake and Easting it, Too: Food's Place in Environmental History," (with Robert Chester) and "It Begins in the Belly," Environmental History 14:2 (pril 2009): 309-323.
"Cooking in the Countryside: The Rural Reform of Taste and the Wisconsin Farmers' Institute's Cooking Schools," Wisconsin Magazine of History (Winter 2008-2009): 2-13.
"A (Napoleon) Dynamite Identity: Rural Idaho, the Politics of Place, and the Creation of a New Western Film," Western Historical Quarterly, 39:2 (Summer 2008): 153-175. (ref.)
"Eating the Claws of Eden: Stone Crabs, Tourism, and the Taste of Conservation in Florida and Beyond," Florida Historical Quarterly, (Spring 2008): 470-497. (ref.).
"Selling the Storied Stone Crab: Eating, Ecology and the Creation of South Florida Culture," Gastronomica: Journal of Food and Culture 6:3 (Fall 2006): 32-43. (ref.)
"A Narrative for Nature's Nation: Constance Lindsay Skinner and the Making of Rivers of America," Environmental History 11:3 (October 2006): 751-773. (ref.)
Recent Presentations:
Panelist, "Restaurants of Northern Aggression: The Business of Race and the Politics of Food in the pre-Civil Rights Act South," Paper to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, Washington, D.C., April 2010.
Panelist, "'Let Her East Out': Gender and Domesticity in the Postwar Restaurant," Paper presented as a participant in the Newberry Library's Seminar on Women and Gender, Chicago, Illinois, November 13, 2009.
Panelist, "The Techno-Cultural Food Narrative; or, What Environmental Historians can Learn from the Depths of the Edison Deep Fryer," Presentation given to Envirotech breakfast meeting at the Society for the History of Technology, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 2009.
Invited Lecture, "Farm Cooking at a Crossroads," Lecture given as part of the Wisconsin Historical Society's Taste of Wisconsin Traditions dinner series, September 16, 2009.
Invited Lecture, "Cooking in the Countryside," Lecture given to monthly meeting of Culinary History Enthusiasts of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, March 4, 2009. Presented again as "A Cooking School for all Women: Wisconsin's Great Traveling Cooking School Experiment and its Culinary Legacy," Opening Lecture for "Farm Women: The Silent Partners" exhibit at the Rollo Jamison Museum. This exhibit included a display on the cooking schools, Platteville, Wisconsin, May 17, 2009.
Panelist, "Domesticating Nature By Easting It: Restaurants, the Built Environment, and the Nature of Eating, 1960-1980," Paper was presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Environmental History, Tallahassee, Florida, February 2009.
Guest Lecture, "From the Roar of Ursus to the Squeal of Swine: Animals in American History" Lecture given to History/Geography/Environmental Studies 460, University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 2007. Presented again in Environmental Studies 339, University of Wisconsin, Madison, July 2008.
Panelist, "The Internationalization of Domestic Swine: Big Pig Breeding in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World," Paper presented at the Biannual Meeting of the European Society of Environmental History, Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 2007.
Roundtable, "'Napoleon Dynamite as the Twenty-First Century Western?" Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western History Association, St. Louis, Missouri, October 2006.
Guest Expert, "The Problem with Automobiles," Wisconsin Public Radio, "All Things Considered" with host Ben Merens, May 3, 2006.