Rachel B. Herrmann

Rachel B. Herrmann is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Modern American History at Cardiff University in Wales. She specializes in colonial, Revolutionary, and Atlantic history, with particular focus on food and hunger in the Atlantic World. She is interested in the ways that people used hunger to forge alliances and engage in violence, and curious about how hunger’s meanings have changed over time.

Dr. Herrmann is originally from Manhattan, and earned her BA at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. She completed her PhD in history at the University of Texas at Austin in 2013. She lives in Bristol, England.