The WSU Common Reading Program welcomes Priya Fielding-Singh, author of this year’s book, How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America, for the annual invited lecture at 7 p.m. today, Oct. 15, at the CUB Senior Ballroom on the WSU Pullman campus, followed by a book-signing. The talk will be streamed live. The event is free and open to the public.
At noon, a special question-and-answer session is offered to WSU students system-wide. They must register to receive the Zoom link for the session, and also submit questions beforehand.
As WSU’s 17th Common Reading book, How the Other Half Eats is being used at WSU Pullman, WSU Vancouver, WSU Tri-Cities, and the Global Campus. Professors across many disciplines use the book in first-year and other classes, with topics from it sparking academic discussions in class and at programming beyond classrooms.
Fielding-Singh is a sociologist and ethnographer whose work is at the intersection of family, gender, and inequality with a focus on maternal and children health and well-being. She currently serves as a senior manager of research and education at the Sandberg Goldberg Bernthal Family Foundation. She is a nonresident fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and was previously a tenure-track assistant professor at the University of Utah’s Department of Family and Consumer Studies.
For more information and updates, check the Common Reading website and its calendar.
