HANNAH CUTTING-JONES

Articles

"'The Conscience of the Community’: The Au Vaine of Rarotonga, the Journal of Pacific History, 55:1, 2020, 58-79. 

Book Chapters

"‘One Extensive Garden’?: Citrus Schemes and Land Use in the Cook Islands, 1900-1970," Migrant Ecologies: Environmental Histories of the Pacific World, Editors, Beattie, Jones, and Melillo, University of Hawaii Press, 2022. 

Shorter Publications

"Jane Goodall," Women Who Changed the World [4 volumes]: Their Lives, Challenges, and Accomplishments through History, Editor, Candice Goucher, Bloomsbury Academics, 2022. 

"Margaret Mead,"  Women Who Changed the World [4 volumes]: Their Lives, Challenges, and Accomplishments through History, Editor, Candice Goucher, Bloomsbury Academics, 2022.  

"Decades of Hype turned Protein into a Superfood - and Spawned a Multi-billion Dollar Industry," The Conversation, 10/21/2021, http://www.theconversation.com 

"From Haute Cuisine to Hot Dogs: How Dining Out has Evolved over 200 Years – and is Innovating Further in the Pandemic," The Conversation, 04/19/2021, http://www.theconversation.com 

Human Settlements and the Natural Regions of the Eastern Seaboard – Teacher’s Edition, co-authored with Ryan Jones, 2009.

1) "'The Missionary and the Umukai': Food and History in the Cook Islands, 1825-1975.” My PhD dissertation recovers the crucial role that food production, consumption, and distribution has played in Pacific history, especially as it shaped Islanders’ encounters with Christianity and European colonialism. I am in the process of editing my manuscript to be submitted to the University of Hawaii Press and hope to have it published in 2024. 

2) "The Protein Wars: A Social and Cultural History of an Obsession." This project is based on my research during my fellowship at the Library of Congress in the fall of 2021. I have outlined a book-length manuscript. 

3) "Losing the Weight of a Prophet's Message: Seventh-day Adventists and Vegetarianism." This is an in-progress article that discusses the trajectory of a denomination founded on a prophetess's dietary revelations, most notably advising church members to give up meat and alcohol. The Adventist church went on to establish several vegetarian meat companies (La Loma Foods, Worthington, etc.) to create new protein-rich options. Now, however, although Loma Linda is one of the famous "Blue Zones" with a high number of centenarians, most Adventists eat meat and consume alcohol. I am writing about this trajectory and what if anything still sets Adventists apart from other Protestant sects. I would like to publish this with the Food & Culture Journal or Gastronomica. 

• Food, Gender, and Anti-colonial Resistance in the Cook Islands, American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch, Las Vegas, 08/2019
• Consuming Paradise: Culinary Tourism in the Cook Islands, Association for Study of Food and Society, Anchorage, Alaska, 06/2019
• Women and the Land: The Au Vaine of Rarotonga, Pacific History Conference, Cambridge, UK, 12/2018
• Island Nights and Luaus: The Reinvention of ‘Traditional’ Cuisine for Tourists to the Cook Islands and Hawaii, Pacific Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch, Santa Clara, 08/2018
• Feasts of Change: The Impact of Colonialism, Christianity, and Globalization on Feasting Foods in the Cook Islands, 1900-1950, American Society for Environmental History, Chicago, 03/2017
• Back to Your Roots: Nutritional Surveys and Health Advice in the Pacific Islands, 1906-1950, Pacific History Conference, Guam, 05/2016
• Bananas for Bibles: Missionaries Introduce Cash Crops to the Cooks, 1830-1880, International Food Studies Conference, Virginia Tech, 09/2015

• Brett Rushforth, History Department, University of Oregon, bhrush@uoregon.edu, 541-346-5913
• Jennifer Frost, Associate Professor, Discipline of History, University of Auckland, j.frost@auckland.ac.nz, (+64) 9.923.8322
• Linda Bryder, Head, Discipline of History, University of Auckland, l.bryder@auckland.ac.nz, (+64) 9.923.7319

*More references available upon request.

J. Franklin Jameson Fellowship in American History (LOC), 2020-2021 

Best Article of 2020, The Journal of Pacific History 

Nancy Bamford Research Grant (Auckland War Memorial Museum), 2015

Doctoral Scholarship, University of Auckland, 2014-2017 

Teacher of the Year, Mt. Horeb High School, 2001