Rachel Herrmann

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Migrant. Historian. Eater. Co-Editor, Global Food History. Author of No Useless Mouth: Waging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution; Editor of Claiming Land, Claiming Water & To Feast on Us as Their Prey. More: rachelbherrmann.com

Paz Purrmann looks at viewer from center left, curled in his white desk bed. His little black face matches the floofy tail he has chosen to dangle so it will reach the arm of his human as she types. The desk has a laptop with multiple tabs open, some piled books, and an open book
Text reads “we’re goin down tuuu in a luleelurah” and is a meme (for aging punks) about the Fall Out Boy song “Sugar, we’re going down”
Book cover for Food Production and Gender featuring Vincenzo Campi’s “The Kitchen”
Global Food History Prize for an Emerging Food Historian The editors of Global Food History are pleased to announce that in 2027 the journal will once again offer a Prize for an Emerging Food Historian. Award winners will receive $100, the opportunity to have their contribution peer-reviewed and—pending successful reviews and revisions—published in the journal with an acknowledgment of the prize win. Articles should be 8,000 to 10,000 words (including notes), and should be based on primary source research. Articles should deal with at least one of the following historical concepts: time (change or continuity), causation and causality, context (historical and historiographical), or complexity. A full description of the journal’s aims and scope is available here. This prize will be awarded to an early career scholar or an established historian who has not yet published in the field of food history. Early career applicants must be no longer than three years past receipt of a PhD by the stated submission deadline, but need not have received a PhD to apply. Revised seminar papers, MA and Mphil theses, and standalone dissertation chapters are all welcome. In the case of career breaks extending the time since earning a PhD beyond the three year limit, applicants may submit a 250-word statement making a case for inclusion. To apply for the prize, applicants should remove all identifying information from the body and notes of their draft article, and submit it as a Word or PDF document to Dr Rachel Herrmann (HerrmannR@cardiff.ac.uk) by 1 November 2026. Applicants should also include a second, separate Word or PDF document containing a brief cover letter stating their name, email address, affiliation, and date of PhD (if applicable). The editors aim to return feedback to all authors by spring 2027.
A discount flyer for Claiming Land, Claiming Water: Borders and the People Who Crossed Them in the Early Modern Atlantic, ed. Rachel B. Herrmann and Jessica Choppin Roney. For a 30% discount order at www.pennpress.org and use discount code PENN-CLAIMING30 (outside the US order at order at https://mngbookshop.co.uk/ and use discount code UPPNN30)
Photo of a grinning Rachel Herrmann, surrounded by books and book posters, wearing lavender octopus overalls and holding Claiming Land, Claiming Water: Borders and the People Who Crossed Them in the Early Modern Atlantic
Downloadable paper links for Chris Parsons, “The Ordeal of the Longhouse on Trial: Early America, Canadian Courts, and the Articulation of Aboriginal Rights in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries” and Rachel Herrmann, “Rivers and Bays and Swamps, Oh My!: Thinking about Waterways in Creek and Seminole Homelands”
12 English muffins with light browning lines on a barbecue with a dogwood, hydrangea, and rhododendron in the background
Photo of Jessica Roney in a blue sweater holding a copy of our book. Pretzel, the cat, is in background right, with his white-gloved paw extended in an elegant pose.
Discount flyer for purchase of Claiming Land, Claiming Water, with the discount code of 30% with code PENN-CLAIMING30 for orders in the United States, and code CSPENN30 for orders outside the Americas
Book cover depicting a map cartouche of four Indigenous people--two on land, two in a canoe--and a snippet from the map of yellow, pink, and green watercolor borders drawn by John Povey, clerk to William Blathwayt, on Robert Morden and William Berry’s A Map of New England New Yorke New Iersey Mary-Land & Virginia (ca. 1676).
Square-shaped biscuits with many layers, golden brown on top. There are bananas and a bowl of garlic in the background
A sepia-tone 1733 map of the places that became the southeastern United States, before the United States existed and when Spain claimed more territory than England. The sea below the Florida panhandle is labelled “part of the bay of Mexico.” The land to the north is falsely described as having no inhabitants.
Portrait of Bernardo de Gálvez riding a horse with its two front legs in the air. Gálvez’a face and hands are skin-toned but his uniform and the horse are depicted with swirling white lines
Publishing agreement with the University of Pennsylvania Press naming Rachel B. Herrmann and Jessica Choppin Roney editors for a volume provisionally titled Claiming Land, Claiming Water: Borders and the People Who Crossed Them in the Early Modern Atlantic
Kitchen island with a measuring scale, food processor, and two bowls heaped with softening butter and Philadelphia cream cheese
The editors of Global Food History are pleased to announce that in 2025 the journal will once again offer a Prize for an Emerging Food Historian. Award winners will receive $100, the opportunity to have their contribution peer-reviewed and—pending successful reviews and revisions—published in the journal with an acknowledgment of the prize win. Articles should be 8,000 to 10,000 words (including notes), and should be based on primary source research. Articles should deal with at least one of the following historical concepts: time (change or continuity), causation and causality, context (historical and historiographical), or complexity. A full description of the journal’s aims and scope is available [link]
Sunrise from the train station