People at LBC
Helen Veit, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
| Department: | HPS |
| Address: | E-193 Holmes |
| Phone: | (517) 884-0595 |
| Email: | hveit@msu.edu |
B.A. in history and English, Kenyon College, 2000
Ph.D. in history, Yale University, 2008
Helen Veit is a historian of the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her first book-length project, Victory over Ourselves: American Food in the Era of the Great War, explores food and nutrition in the Progressive Era, and their relationship to ideas about individual self-discipline, scientific rationalization, social and racial progress, and international power. She is also broadly interested in technology and culture, war and society, and the cultural and intellectual history of death. Recent publications include “‘We Were a Soft People’: American Asceticism & World War I Food Conservation,” The Journal of Food, Culture & Society (Summer 2007).
Helen Veit joined the Michigan State faculty in fall 2008, with a joint appointment in Lyman Briggs (25%) and the department of history (75%).
Ph.D. in history, Yale University, 2008
Helen Veit is a historian of the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her first book-length project, Victory over Ourselves: American Food in the Era of the Great War, explores food and nutrition in the Progressive Era, and their relationship to ideas about individual self-discipline, scientific rationalization, social and racial progress, and international power. She is also broadly interested in technology and culture, war and society, and the cultural and intellectual history of death. Recent publications include “‘We Were a Soft People’: American Asceticism & World War I Food Conservation,” The Journal of Food, Culture & Society (Summer 2007).
Helen Veit joined the Michigan State faculty in fall 2008, with a joint appointment in Lyman Briggs (25%) and the department of history (75%).
