Doctoral Student Public Humanities Fellow
Doctoral Student, Department of History, Graduate School of Arts & Science
Lana Dee Povitz is a doctoral candidate in U.S. history at New York University. Her dissertation, A Taste of What It Takes: Food Activism in New York City explores the central role food has played in building and sustaining community since the 1960s, whether through mothers monitoring school lunch programs in the South Bronx, volunteers delivering meals for people with AIDS, or young New Leftists establishing the Park Slope Food Coop. Lana is engaged in an array of contemporary social struggles, including those for peace, prison abolition, and queer and feminist movement.