Outreach Librarian and Curator, Special Collections Library
Juli McLoone is an Outreach Librarian & Curator in the University of Michigan Special Collections Library, where she curates post-1700 print materials, including the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive (JBLCA). Containing more than 15,000 items, the JBLCA documents American foodways over more than 200 years through cookbooks, menus, and advertising ephemera. Through the culinary archive one can explore changing attitudes towards diet and health, homemaking, commercial dining and the industrialization of food production. It also reveals perspectives surrounding race, class, and gender. If you would like to explore how a historical approach might fit into your sustainability research or teaching, please contact Juli at jmcloone@umich.edu.
Juli received her MA in Library and Information Science, with a Graduate Certificate in Book Studies / Book Arts and Technologies from the University of Iowa in 2009 and an MA in Cultural Anthropology, also from the University of Iowa, in 2007. Before graduate school, she spent a year as part of the Capuchin Franciscan Volunteer Corps, working with Earthworks Urban Farm and the Growing Healthy Kids Program in Detroit.
