Dr. Gina Hunter
Professor of Anthropology
- About
- Education
- Awards & Honors
- Selected Research
Biography
Gina Louise Hunter (PhD U of Illinois) is Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and Director of the Office of Student Research at Illinois State University.
Current Courses
ANT 185.001 Cultures Of The World: An Introduction To Cultural & Linguistic Anthropology
ANT 281.001 Explorations in Cultural Anthropology
ANT 400.001 Independent Study In Anthropology
Teaching Interests & Areas
Dr Hunter teaches courses in cultural anthropology, food anthropology, and ethnography.
Research Interests & Areas
Dr. Hunter has published research on women's reproductive health, foodways and food systems, the ethnography of the university, pedagogy and research methods. At Illinois State, she is co-Director of the Food Studies Minor, and is affiliated with the Latin American and Latino/a Studies Program. Her regional specialty is Brazil and has twice led a study abroad program in Brazil.
BS Anthropology
Illinois State University
Normal, IL
Ph D Anthropology
University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign, IL
MA Anthropology
University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign, IL
Sabbatical Leave
College of Arts and Sciences
2023
Faculty Instructor Community Engagement Learning Grant
Center for Civic Engagement
2023
Teaching-Scholar-in-Residence
Center for Integrated Professional Development
2023
Sabbatical Leave
CAS
2015
Administrative Fellow
College of Arts and Sciences
2015
Community Engagement Learning Award
Center for Teaching Learning and Technology (CTLT)
2014
Community Engagement Learning Award
Center for Teaching Learning and Technology (CTLT)
2012
Shaw Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching
College of Arts and Sciences
2012
Grants and Contracts
Faculty Instructor Community Engagement Learning Grant,
Gina Hunter.
Center for Civic Engagement. August 2023 - December 2023
CAS Interdisciplinary Research Grant
Gina Hunter, Noha Shawki, Kathryn Sampeck.
College of Arts and Sciences. August 2017 - July 2018
Performances and Exhibits
Making a Home in McLean County
Gina Hunter.
McLean County Museum of HIstory. January 2014 - January 2016
Gina Hunter.
McLean County Museum of HIstory. January 2014 - January 2016
Book Review
Review of Handbook of Food and Anthropology
Gina Hunter.
(2017), 11, 682-684, Anthropos
Review of Brazilian Food by Jane Fajans
Gina Hunter.
(2014), 41, 393-394, 10.1111/amet.12082_9, American Ethnologist
Holy Harlots: Femininity, Sexuality and Black Magic in Brazil. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2011; xiii+293pp
Gina Hunter.
(2012), 114, 705-706, American Anthropologist
Book, Authored
Edible Insects: A Global History
Gina Louise Hunter.
(2021), 174, Reaktion Press
Book, Chapter
Anthropology of Food
Dirks Robert, Gina Hunter.
(2013), 10.4324/9780203819227.ch1, Routledge International Handbook of Food Studies, Routledge
Encyclopedia
Edible Insects
Gina L Hunter.
(2024), https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780197762530.013.87
Portuguese American Cuisine
Gina Hunter.
Oxford University Press, (2012)
Journal Article
Design Thinking in the University and the Business Classroom: A Collaborative Search for Solutions
Peter Andrew Kaufman, Nathan S Hartman, Rick Norman Valentin, Gina Hunter, Jim Jones, Maria Zamudio, Rebecca LaMont, Ken Baldauf.
Business Education Innovation Journal, 16 (1), 222-235, (2024)
"How Studying Anthropology Changes Students"
Gina Hunter, Emily Ding, Maria Kitchin, Colette Nortman, William Roberts.
Annals of Anthropological Practice, 47 (1), 47-57, (2023), DOI:10.1111/napa.12198
“Mentoring Undergraduate Research and Centering Collaboration”
Angela, Gina Hunter, William Roberts.
Practicing Anthropology, 45 (4), 25-31, (2023)
’There’s a lot you can do with it:; Anthropology undergraduates talk about their professional futures.”(tentative title)
Colette Nortman, Maria Kitchin, Victoria Kvitek, William Roberts Roberts, Gina Hunter.
Annals of Anthropological Practice, 47 (1), 68-78, (2023), https://doi.org/10.1111/napa.12197
Building Solidarity in the Slow Food Movement
Noha Shawki, Gina Hunter.
International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, 28 (2), 75-93, (2022)
A ETNOGRAFIA DA UNIVERSIDADE: Entrevista com a professora Gina Louise Hunter
Gina L Hunter, Daniela Alves de Alves.
Educação em Perspectiva, Viçosa, 7 (1), 214-227, (2016)
“Exploring Cultural Influences of Self-Management of Diabetes in Coastal Kenya: An Ethnography.”
Munib Abdulrehman, Susan Jenkins, Gina Hunter, Susan Kossman, Wendy Woith.
Journal of Qualitative Health Research, 3, 1-13, (2016)
“Galeterias: Serving up Italo-Gaúcho Specialties in the South of Brazil”
Gina Hunter.
Gastronomica: Critical Studies in Food and Culture, 15 (4), 59-69, (2015)
The Ethnography of the University Initiative: A decade of student research on the university
Gina Hunter, Abelmann Nancy.
Learning and Teaching, 6 (3), 1-8, (2013), 10.3167/latiss.2013.060301
"Building Solidarity in the Slow Food Movement"
Noha Shawki, Gina Hunter.
The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, 28 (2), https://doi.org/10.48416/ijsaf.v28i2.489
Other
Eating Insects Detroit
Gina L Hunter.
FoodAnthropology, (2016)
“How to build intercultural interaction between short-term study abroad students and local students? A case study of USA studen
Gina Hunter, .
European Association For International Education – EIAE Blog, (2016)
Special Issue: A Decade of the Ethnography of the University Initiative
Gina Hunter, Abelmann Nancy.
Berghahn, 6 (3), (2013)
Presentations
Edible Insects: Back to the Future?
Gina Hunter.
Spring Seminar Series, online, April, 2023
.The Anthropology of Food - Insects as Future Food? A Critical Anthropology Perspective”
Gina Hunter.
Food Law and the Right to Food Symposium, Pavia, Italy, July 7, 2022
Building Solidarity in the Slow Food Movement
Noha Shawki, Gina Hunter.
Department of Sociology and Anthropology Brown Bag, Normal, IL, February 25, 2022
“Edible Insects, A Global History.”
Gina Hunter.
Culinary Historians of Chicago Seminar Series, Chicago, IL/ Online, February 16, 2022
“A Utilidade de um Conhecimento ‘Inútil’: Formação antropológica e perspectivas profissionais em dois cursos de graduação no Brasil e nos Estados Unidos”
Gina Hunter, Guillermo Vega Sanabria.
"Utopias pós-crise. Artes e saberes em movimento" " XIV Congresso Luso-Afro-Brasileiro de Ciências Sociais (CONLAB 2021),, Coimbra, Portugal - ONLINE, September 15, 2021
Building Solidarity in the Slow Food Movement
Noha Shawki, Gina Hunter.
Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Food and Society, Online, June 15, 2021
What is the Value of an Undergraduate Anthropology Degree? Findings from Undergraduate Researchers at Five US Campuses”
Gina Hunter, Maria Kitchin.
Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, Online, March, 2021
Edible Insects a ‘Future Food:’ Who Benefits?
Gina Hunter.
International Studies Seminar Series, Normal, IL, October 1, 2017
“Migrating Insects: Possible Futures for Insect Foods”
Gina Hunter.
Joint 2017 Annual Meetings and Conference of the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society (AFHVS) and the Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS)., Los Angeles, June 15, 2017
"From Yuck to Yum: Are Insects the New Sushi?”
Gina Hunter.
Annual Meeting, Central States Anthropology Society, Lincoln, NE, April, 2017
“Para uma antropologia da universidade: experiências de pesquisa nos E.U. e no Brasil” (“Toward the Anthropology of the University: Experiences from the US and Brazil”).
Gina Hunter.
Ciências Sociais em Debate, Federal University of Vi‡osa, Minas Gerais, Brazil, September 28, 2015
Producing "Race" and Ethnicity at the Festa da Uva in Caxias do Sul, Brazil
Gina Hunter.
2014 AAA Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, December 5, 2014
The Ethnography of the University: At Home and Abroad
Gina Hunter.
Department Second Friday Lecture Series, Online, October 10, 2014
Creating Knowledge-Able Students through Reseaerch on the Library
Gina Hunter, Colleen Shaw.
Changing Teaching Changing Learning: Helping Students Become Knowledge-Able, ISU, January 8, 2014
The Way to a Student's Heart is Through Her Stomach: Teaching Food Anthropology for Civic Engagement
Gina Hunter.
2013 AAA Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, November 23, 2013
“Meeting Gringos:”North American Students Encounter Whiteness in Southern Brazil.
Gina Hunter.
American Anthropology Association Annual Meetings, San Francisco, CA, November, 2012
“Spring Chicken” and the “Plentiful Table:” Eating Italian in the South of Brazil
Gina Hunter.
Brazilian Studies Association Meeting, BRASA XI, Online, September, 2012
Tendo A Universidade Como Sujeito Etnografico” Apontamentos Metodologios e Dimensoes Pedagogicas
Gina Hunter.
Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil, May, 2012
American Students Encounter Race in Brazil: Reflections of a Summer Study Abroad Experience
Gina Hunter.
Illinois State University, Online, February, 2012