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Dr. Ashanté M. Reese

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Professor | Anthropologist | Food Scholar
Author: GATHER (@w.w.norton 2026) and BLACK FOOD GEOGRAPHIES (@uncpress 2019)

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October event dates! Hope to see you somewhere along the way. Let me know where!

🌿 10.1 EAST LANSING, MI @ WKAR Studios / Michigan State University – NOM: A Food Forum @liftproj

🌿 10.5 SAN DIEGO, CA @ San Diego County Food Vision Annual Gathering – Opening Speaker @sdfoodsys

🌿 10.15 ORANGE, CA @ Chapman University

🌿 10.22 CHICAGO, IL @ Call & Response Books with Jessica Kenyatta Walker @callandresponsechi

🌿 10.23 CHICAGO, IL @ University of Illinois Chicago Social Justice Initiative, Panel: Black Studies Under Fire socialjustice_uic

🌿 10.23 CHICAGO, IL @ DePaul University with Dr. Symone Johnson @abddepaul @cbddepaul

More information, tickets and RSVP: http://amreese.com/events

November dates are also up on my website. by @dramreese

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15 days ago

Hi, I’m Dr. Ashanté M. Reese— food studies scholar, and expert gatherer of people, stories, recipes, and traditions.

The GATHER journey has changed me forever.

I started with a research question. I ended with a deeper understanding that many of the practices we need to create justice are already being cultivated in our homes, backyards, and neighborhood parks.

Now I get to share this with you in book form:

Gather: Black Food, Nourishment, and the Art of Togetherness, coming from Norton on April 14.

Pre-order it anywhere you get books. 🌿

Stay tuned for tour dates! Let me know in the comments where you’d like to gather. by @dramreese

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8 months ago

🚨 I have the privilege of being the FIRST person to reveal the cover for GATHER, a vibrant new vision of food justice that celebrates Black food and recognizes the power of gathering to create sustainable, systemic change.

In this book, anthropologist @dramreese argues for a new vision of food justice. One that centers the resilience of Black communities and argues that community nourishment deserves as much consideration as individual health.

Highlighting four spaces of gathering—gardens, family reunions, repasts, and protests —Reese offers rich, on–the–ground studies of the places and people who make up the food justice movement. From Black church networks and community farms to student protests, these studies illuminate ways we can challenge structures of power and nourish ourselves, body and soul. In a world of social isolation and unequal food systems, GATHER offers a compelling argument for the beauty and political power of togetherness.

GATHER is on sale April 14, 2026, but you can pre-order it via @dramreese or me! 🔗👆🏾

#FirstLook #Exclusive #PreOrder #BlackAnthropology taken in North Charleston, South Carolina by @dramreese

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a year ago

Sometimes it takes nearly a year to meet your friends in real life.

In the spring, I finished a coaching certification with @wholeheartedcoaching (SN: if you’re thinking about coaching, this program is wonderful. ask me about it!)

For six months, our cohort met virtually, coached each other, learned together, shared our life things, lamented over starting businesses. And in the six months since, we continue to do those things and call each other friends.

Seeing Ryleigh and Valerie in real life brought me so much joy. Thank you for coming to my talk!

Swipe to see when I met Shirin, the incredible mastermind behind wholehearted coaching, in Brooklyn and my soul sister Marquita in Atlanta!

(if you’re looking for a life coach, I know some good ones!) by @dramreese

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5 days ago

Thank you @drmchatelain and @pantheonbooks for sending me a copy of How Bright the Path Grows: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the March on Washington, and a box of goodies.

All this wisdom from Black women? I know this book is going to be the energizing read I was looking for! by @dramreese

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11 days ago

Rainy day in Brooklyn but the turn out was great! Thank you @bkbookfest.

I travelled with my Atlanta gear so everyone knows who I’m rooting for in the playoffs.

Let’s go Dream!!! by @dramreese

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14 days ago

Who’s interested in following Roscoe and me as we cook our way through A Taste of Country Cooking by Edna Lewis during its 50th anniversary year? by @dramreese

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16 days ago

This spring, I was inducted into the Academy of Distinguished Teachers, one of the highest honors at UT-Austin.

In a moment when my department has been eliminated, when the state is aggressively attacking the kinds of things I teach, this kind of honor is bittersweet.

I know what courses that push you to think critically about the world can do. They’re transformative, both for students and for teachers like me.

It’s a joy to watch students develop the tools to fight for a better world, and I’ll never take for granted the change that is possible.

I wish the circumstances during which I received this honor were different. But perhaps what matters most is that it reminds me that liberatory teaching matters and is so critically necessary right now.

👯🏾‍♀️ Cool fact: @drashleydfarmer was inducted three years ago! Swipe to see our sister certificates! by @dramreese

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19 days ago

I had a lovely time at the @petersburgbookfest.

A great panel discussion with @beronda_m and @lauranettlee talking about Gather and When Trees Testify. (We really missed @freckledwhileblack, who got stuck with airplane delays!)

I was impressed by the festival’s organization and welcoming vibes and hope to be back in the future! taken in Petersburg, Virginia by @dramreese

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a month ago

September event dates! Hope to see you somewhere along the way.

🌿 9.12 Petersburg Book Fest Panel: By Our Hand, On The Land with Brea Baker and Beronda L. Montgomery, moderated by Dr. Lauranett Lee

🌿 9.14 University of Mississippi’s Barnard Observatory with Dr. Jodi Skipper

🌿 9.15 Online event! School of Advanced Research with Danilyn Rutherford and Anand Pandian

🌿 9.27 Brooklyn Book Festival Panel: When We Gather: On Food, Celebration, and Ritual with Amber Mayfield Hewett and Natasha Pickowicz, moderated by Danielle Davenport

More information, tickets and RSVP: http://amreese.com/events

October and November dates are also up on my website. by @dramreese

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a month ago

A summer of rest, reflection, basketball, flowers, and gathering with beloveds old and new. 🌿

I’ll be on the road again with GATHER this fall, so stay tuned for more details. by @dramreese

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a month ago

Dallas, TX 🌿 Sunday, August 9

Gather by Ashanté M. Reese book launch with Stacie McCormick, Black studies scholar and author, most recently, of We are Pregnant with Freedom.

📖 Gather: Black Food, Nourishment, and the Art of Togetherness brings together food, community, and sacred rituals to explore what food justice movements can learn from the ways Black folks gather around food.

📍Pan-African Connection
4466 South Marsalis Avenue, Dallas, TX, 75216

⏰ 1 pm

RSVP: https://www.blackgathering.net/events (link in bio)
@_drstacie_ @pac_dallas taken in Pan African Connection by @dramreese

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