Ellie Palazzolo is a Southern Foodways Alliance Assistant Professor of Southern Studies in the Center for the Study of Southern Culture and Assistant Professor of History in the Department of History at the University of Mississippi.
Research Interests
Dr. Ellie Palazzolo is an historian and food studies scholar with a focus on labor and consumer cultures in the 19th- and 20th-century US. Her dissertation focused on people engaged in food production, distribution, and service. One current project is about labor and consumer politics in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Chicago.
Biography
Dr. Ellie Palazzolo earned a BA in History and French from the University of Richmond and a Certificate of Studies in Social Sciences and Humanities from the Paris Institute of Political Studies. Her MA and PhD in History are from Johns Hopkins University.
Between 2020 and 2024, she worked on a digital humanities project, Keywords for Black Louisiana: Reimagining the Place of Black Life in the Louisiana Colonial Archive. The project highlights stories of people of African descent in Louisiana's colonial archive through the transcription and translation of documents, reparative data practices, and development of historical narratives.
Courses Taught
- HIST 4060 US from WWI to WWII, 1914-1945
- HIST 5060 Historiography of US Since Reconstruction
- SSTU 1050 Introduction to the South and Food
- SSTU 5550 Foodways and Southern Culture
Education
Ph.D. History, Johns Hopkins University (2025)
B.A. History, University of Richmond (2019)
M.A. History, Johns Hopkins University (2021)
Recognitions
- Community-Engaged Fellow, UM Center for Community Engagement, 2025-26