Dr Peggy Brunache

Lecturer in Public History and Archaeology (History)

Biography

Dr Peggy Brunache is a lecturer in the history of Atlantic slavery at the University of Glasgow and the first Director of the newly established Beniba Centre for Slavery Studies. Born in Miami to Haitian parents, she trained and worked as a historical archaeologist with a focus on plantation studies, the African diaspora and the transatlantic slave trade, working on archaeological projects in Benin, West Africa, Guadeloupe, and various sites in the United States. She is a founding member of the European Society of Black and Allied Archaeologists (ESBAA). She developed a free 4-week ongoing online course on 'British Slavery in the Caribbean' with Futurelearn.com. Other projects include working with food, music and science festivals. Food is also central to Peggy's life and work. She acts as culinary consultant for Perth’s Southern Fried music festival. Her media appearances include the US’s Food Network, BBCTV's Black and British documentary series and is a regular contributor to BBC Radio Scotland ’s programmes.

Publications

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2024

Cheadle, Tanya ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1284-7343, Brunache, Peggy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6621-5835, Lloyd, Katherine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1737-5354, McColl, Margaret, Plaquevent, Blanche ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2088-9084 and Pickens, Chanelle (2024) Radical collaboration: co-creating feminist online graduate courses through a university and museum partnership. Dialogues in Social Justice: An Adult Education Journal, 9(1), 1696. (doi: 10.55370/dsj.v9i1.1696)

2023

Brunache, Peggy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6621-5835 (2023) Slave-produced commodities. In: Avery, Victoria and Subryan Richards, Jake (eds.) Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance. Philip Wilson Publishers: London, pp. 128-131. ISBN 9781781301234

Brunache, Peggy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6621-5835 (2023) Behind the Big House: Reconciling Slavery Race, and Heritage in the U.S. South by Jodi Skipper. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2022. xxiv + 218 pp.; illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, paperback, $27.50; eBook, $27.50. Public Historian, 45(3), pp. 133-135. [Book Review]

Brunache, Peggy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6621-5835 (2023) Alston, Slaves and Highlanders: Silenced Histories of Scotland and the Caribbean. Scottish Historical Review, 102(1), pp. 179-181. (doi: 10.3366/shr.2023.0604)[Book Review]

2021

Brunache, Peggy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6621-5835, Dadzie, Benjamina Efua, Goodlett, Karen, Hampden, Laura, Khreisheh, Amal, Ngonadi, Chioma Vivian, Parikh, Danika and Sires, Jeannette Plummer (2021) Contemporary archaeology and anti-racism: a manifesto from the European Society of Black and Allied Archaeologists. European Journal of Archaeology, 24(3), pp. 294-298. (doi: 10.1017/eaa.2021.21)

Brunache, Peggy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6621-5835 (2021) Introduction. In: Al-Amoudi, Fahad and Birch, Kate (eds.) Runaways London: For the Enslaved Freedom-Seekers of the 17th and 18th Centuries. Ink Sweat & Tears Press: London. ISBN 9780992725365

2019

Brunache, Peggy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6621-5835 (2019) Mainstreaming African diasporic foodways when academia is not enough. Transforming Anthropology, 27(2), pp. 149-163. (doi: 10.1111/traa.12156)

2015

Brunache, Peggy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6621-5835 (2015) Food and colonialism. In: Metheny, Karen Bescherer and Beaudry, Mary C. (eds.) Archaeology of Food: an Encyclopedia. Rowman & Littlefield: Lanham, pp. 180-182. ISBN 9780759123649

Brunache, Peggy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6621-5835 (2015) Food and gender. In: Metheny, Karen Bescherer and Beaudry, Mary C. (eds.) Archaeology of Food: an Encyclopedia. Rowman & Littlefield: Lanham, pp. 187-189. ISBN 9780759123649

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Articles

Chiou, Katherine, Hu, Di, Quave, Kylie, Rivera Prince, Jordi, Warnes, Andrew, Williams-Forson, Psyche, Brunache, Peggy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6621-5835, Bardolph, Dana and Fedoroff, Michael Multiple inequalities in every meal: theorizing the intersectional erasure of food producers both past and present. Food, Culture and Society, (Accepted for Publication)

Book Sections

Brunache, Peggy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6621-5835 Digging a difficult past and actualizing a better future: historical archaeology and social activism of the African diaspora. In: Cherry, John and Rothenberg, Miriam (eds.) New Directions in Caribbean Archaeology. Series: Tabouï monograph series. Sidestone Press. (Accepted for Publication)

Book Reviews