Ellen Messer, PhD

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Ellen Messer is a food-and-nutrition anthropologist specializing in food, security, religion, and human rights, with faculty affiliations at Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy and the Boston University Gastronomy/Food Studies Program.

She initiated research and writing on food wars while core faculty and then director of the Brown University Alan Shawn Feinstein World Hunger Program, where she co-authored Who’s Hungry? And How Do We Know? Food Shortage, Poverty, and Deprivation (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 1998, with L. DeRose and S. Millman) and Food From Peace: Breaking the Links Between Hunger and Conflict (IFPRI, 1998, with M.J. Cohen and J.D’Costa), plus biannual food wars chapters in the World Hunger Program’s bi-annual Hunger Reports. Since 2000, she and M.J. Cohen have explored additional issues concerning hunger, conflict, and globalization and the use of food as a weapon.