Jo Sharma
Biography:
JO SHARMA trained in history at the Universities of Delhi and Cambridge, where she was a Commonwealth Scholar. She taught at Carnegie Mellon and Western Universities, was a research fellow at Yale University, and is currently an Associate Professor of Food and Environmental Studies at the University of Toronto. She is a founding member of the U of T’s Culinaria Research Centre and the Food Studies undergraduate and graduate programs.
She holds graduate appointments at the Department of History, the School of the Environment, and at DPES. She is a faculty affiliate of the SDGs Scholars Academy, School of Cities, Centre for Critical South Asian Humanities, and the Ho Centre for Buddhist Studies. Sharma is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and an elected Board Member of the Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS).
She is a founding co-editor of the ‘Culinaria’ book series (University of Toronto Press), and editor of the ‘Empires in Perspective’ history book series (Routledge 2016-). She is also co-editor of the Global Food History journal.