Life and Food in the South

Dr. Lee A. Farrow is Chair of the Department of History and World Cultures, Distinguished Research Professor and Distinguished Teaching Professor at Auburn University at Montgomery, in Montgomery, Alabama. She grew up in Louisiana and received her PhD from Tulane University. Her area of expertise is Russian History, with a focus on the history of Russian-American Relations. She is the author of The Catacazy Affair and the Uneasy Path of Russian-American Relations (2021), Seward’s Folly: A New Look at the Alaska Purchase (2017), and Alexis in America: A Russian Grand Duke’s Tour, 1871-72 (2014).

What role does food play in the life of the American South today? Answers to these and other questions can be found in Dr. Leah Farrow’s lecture.