The University of Georgia, Department of History

Tore Olsson

Modern U.S., immigration, global South, food production and consumption

Graduate Teaching Assistant
M.A., University of Georgia, 2007

Office: 310 LeConte
Office Hours: F 2:30 - 4:30pm
Phone: (706)542-9271

tolsson@uga.edu

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My research looks at Latino, African, and Asian immigration to the American South since 1965 and its impact on the production and consumption of food.

Research and Teaching Interests

[U.S. South]
[Capitalism]
[U.S. 19th & 20th Century]
[Latin America & Caribbean]
[Transnational]

Dissertation

"Eating and Growing the Global in the Nuevo New South, 1965-2000," supervised by Dr. James C. Cobb (In Progress)

Selected Publications

"Your DeKalb Farmers Market: Food and Ethnicity in Atlanta," Southern Cultures (Winter 2007)

Honors and Awards

William Jennings Bryan Award, UGA History Department, Best History Paper of the Year (2009)

Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Georgia (2008)

Carl Vipperman Teaching Assistant Award, UGA History Department (2007)

Best Paper at the History and Power Across American Borders Conference, Graduate History Association of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (2006)