Professor, Department of Nutrition and Food Studies, New York University
Professor, Department of Nutrition and Food Studies, New York UniversityKrishnendu Ray is a Professor in the Department of Nutrition and Food Studies at New York University. He was the Chair of the department from 2012-2021. He is the author of The Migrant’s Table (2004) and The Ethnic Restaurateur (2016) and the co-editor of Curried Cultures: Globalization, Food and South Asia (2012). He was formerly a faculty member and the Acting Associate Dean of Liberal Arts at The Culinary Institute of America (1996-2005) and the President of The Association for the Study of Food and Society from 2014-2018. He is an Editorial Collective Member of the Food Studies journal Gastronomica, a Board member at the Southern Foodways Alliance, and one of the Chairs of the James Beard Foundation Journalism Awards Committee.
