College of Liberal Arts and Education
Anthropology
David I. Beriss
Professor
About
Dr. Beriss studies and teaches about ethnicity and race, immigration, foodways, and urban and applied anthropology. His research focuses on New Orleans and the Gulf South, as well as the French Caribbean and France.
Dr. Beriss is co-editor of The Restaurants Book: Ethnographies of where we eat (Berg, 2007) and author of Black Skins, French Voices: Caribbean ethnicity and activism in urban France (2004, Westview). He is editor of and a frequent contributor to FoodAnthropology, the blog of the Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition.
Education
Joint PhD in Anthropology and French Studies from New York University
Research Interests
Sociocultural Anthropology, ethnicity, multiculturalism, urban and applied anthropology, foodways, Western Europe, Caribbean, New Orleans.