“A Guide to Modern Cooking”: Tracing the History of Sudanese Women through an Arabic Home Economics Textbook

A conversation with Dr. Heather Sharkey about her research on how foodways illuminate the history of Sudanese women. Heather J. Sharkey is Professor and Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches Middle Eastern and North African history, and where she received the Charles Ludwig Distinguished Teaching Award from the College of Arts and Sciences.

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