Hanna Garth

Hanna Garth is a sociocultural and medical anthropologist specializing in the anthropology of food. She is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Princeton University. Previously, she held a faculty position at UC San Diego and was a postdoctoral fellow at UC Irvine. She received her PhD in Anthropology from UCLA (2014). At the MPIWG, she is a Visiting Senior Research Fellow within the Department Knowledge Systems and Collective Life, where she will work on her next book tentatively titled: To Build a Home: Placemaking and Everyday Life in South Central. Her previous books include Food in Cuba: The Pursuit of a Decent Meal (Stanford University Press, 2020), Food Justice Undone: Lessons for a Better Movement (University of California Press, 2026).