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Christine E.Thompson Associate Dean
Ph.D., Ohio State University
M.A., B.A., Indiana State University
A.S., Johnson & Wales University
John Hazen White Center, 5th floor
401-598-1415
fax 401-598-1821
Dr. Thompson is the associate dean of the John Hazen White School of Arts & Sciences. Her areas of research interest are faculty assessment, food history, and food security. Her professional memberships include the New England Resource Center for Higher Education, the Association for the Study of Food and Society, the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe, and the Rhode Island Food Writers' Network. She has developed and taught three courses that are part of the culinary arts curriculum: Culture and Food (sociology), Food in Film and Literature, and Introduction to Food Writing.
selected presentations & publications
• Feeding the Hungry, A Guide for Food Service
Professionals, with David Newman
• You Eat What You Are: Social Identity and Food
Among American College Students, Cultural and Historical Aspects of Food, Oregon
State University, with David Newman
• Aphrodisiac Foods, RI Chapter of the American
Institute for Wine and Food
• The Maturation of Gastronomy as a Field of Study,
CHRIE, with James Griffin
• Visual Feasts: Food in Film, International Association
of Culinary Professionals
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