Natalie is a food and culture scholar, sustainable food systems instructor, trained culinarian, and food history author.

Kroo's research uses sociolinguistic and linguistic anthropological methodologies to understand post-disaster communities, migration, and future imagining with a focus on Japan and Korea.

Katherine Morrissey is an Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies. Her research focuses on representations of female desire in popular culture, genre networks, and the impacts of digitization on creative communities.

Rafael Martínez is an assistant professor of Southwest Borderlands in the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts. Rafael’s work focuses on immigration, migration, and the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands.

Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Culture and Language, working on Japanese ethnographic film and visual culture.