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ORAL HISTORY
Psyche Williams-Forson
Psyche Williams-Forson is the author of Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power. She teaches in the women’s Studies and African American Studies departments at the University of Maryland. Born in Virginia, Williams-Forson uses food as a way to explore political, cultural, and social issues.
She has been awarded several fellowships, including a Ford Foundation Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowship and a Lord Baltimore Research Fellowship. She is the curator of “Still Cookin’ by the Fireside,” an online text and photograph exhibition on the history of African American cookery, commissioned for the Smithsonian Institution’s Anacostia Museum.
