David Beriss

David Beriss

AAA Executive Board Small Section Seat

My Biography

Dr. Beriss studies and teaches about ethnicity and race, immigration, foodways, and urban and applied anthropology. His research focuses on New Orleans and the Gulf South, as well as the French Caribbean and France.

Dr. Beriss is co-editor of The Restaurants Book: Ethnographies of where we eat (Berg, 2007) and author of Black Skins, French Voices: Caribbean ethnicity and activism in urban France (2004, Westview). He is editor of and a frequent contributor to FoodAnthropology (https://foodanthro.com/), the blog of the Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition.