Public facing work and projects.
Talks
“‘Eau de Cookie Dough’: A Reading” Institute for Art and Olfaction, December 2024.
In advance of the reading, an Accepted Manuscript copy of the article published by Taylor & Francis in Food and Foodways on 22 September 2024 at DOI: 10.1080/07409710.2024.2405797 is available for reference.
“Vanilla Extract(ions): Thinking with the Vanilla Orchid” New York Botanical Garden, May 2023.
“Sugar, Spice, and Vanilla Ice: How Vanilla Shapes American Life” UNC Department of American Studies, March 2023.
Writing
“Crème de la crème: How French cuisine became beloved among status-hungry diners in the United States, from Thomas Jefferson to Kanye West” with Kelly Alexander for Aeon, July 2023.
“Reading Recipes” New York Botanical Garden, Plant Talk, July 2023.
“Food Rivalries: Pie- or Square-Cut Pizzas” with Theresa Beckhusen for The Kitchn, January 2017.
Podcasts
Nerds in the Woods is a podcast of the National Humanities Center. Each episode thematically explores the research of scholars in residence at the Center across the fields of history, philosophy, art, literature, and more.
Between 2018 and 2021, Claire developed the format and produced seven episodes alongside Mike Levine as UNC-Chapel Hill Humanities for the Public Good Graduate Fellows.