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L. Sasha Gora Received Bavarian American Academy Dissertation Award 2021

13.07.2021

Former RCC doctoral candidate L. Sasha Gora has received the Bavarian American Academy Dissertation Award 2021. Sasha completed her PhD at LMU Munich and the RCC in 2020. Her dissertation project "Culinary Claims: A Cultural History of Indigenous Restaurant in Canada" combines environmental history with food studies and explores a narrative of the social and political aspects to cultural representation, restaurants, and food sovereignty. L. Sasha Gora currently works as an environmental research fellow at the Center for the Humanities and Social Change at Università Ca'Foscari Venezia. 

Congratulations to Sasha on behalf of all at the RCC!