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Barbara Shortridge Barbara G. Shortridge
Lecturer

Office: 217B Lindley Hall
Phone: 785-864-5147
Email: bshortri@ku.edu



  • Ph.D., University of Kansas (1977)
Vita (pdf)

Courses Taught

  

Research Interests
Geog. 103: Principles of Human Geography-Honors
Geog. 104: Principles of Physical Geography
Geog. 377: Urban Geography
Geog. 579: Geography of American Foodways
 
Regional and ethnic foods of the United States.

Current Projects

  

Selected Publications
Extending food survey to Northeast

Writing about Midwestern traditional foods
 
The Taste of American Place: A Reader on Regional and Ethnic Foods. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 1998.

"A Food Geography of the Great Plains." The Geographical Review 93, 4 (2003): 507- 529.

"Not Just Jello and Hot Dishes: Representative Foods of Minnesota." Journal of Cultural Geography 21, 1 (2004): 71-94.

"Ethnic Heritage Food in Lindsborg, Kansas and New Glarus, Wisconsin." In Culinary Tourism, edited by Lucy Long. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2004, pp. 268-296.

"Apple Stack Cake for Dessert: Appalachian Regional Foods." Journal of Geography 104, 2 (2005).

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