Professor of Liberal Arts, The Culinary Institute of America (CIA); Hyde Park, NY

Maureen Costura, PhD is a professor of liberal arts at The Culinary Institute of America where she teaches classes in Gastronomy, the Archaeology of Food, Global Cultures and Cuisines, and Applied Food Studies. She also maintains the campus apiary and beehives. She has a PhD in anthropology and an MA in archaeology from Cornell University. Her major research interests are French colonial societies and the archaeology of daily life, particularly the archaeology of food.