Jayeeta Sharma

Jo (Jayeeta) Sharma is an Associate Professor of History and Food Studies at the University of Toronto, Canada. She is the author of Empire’s Garden: Assam and the Making of India, which examines tea plantations and labour migration in the British Empire. She is on the Editorial Board of Global Food History and the Editorial Collective for Radical History Review, and is editor of the Empires in Perspective book series at Routledge. She is currently living in Torino and will be lecturing about South Asian foodways at the L’Università di Scienze Gastronomiche at  Pollenzo, Italy.