Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson
Director, Undergraduate Studies Professor Columbia University
Sociology
Biography Priscilla Ferguson's work ranges from analysis of the literary field in France to studies of the post-revolutionary French novel through explorations of an emerging national culture in France over the 19th century. Her most recent book, Accounting for Taste: The triumph of French cuisine (2004), examines the elaboration and institutionalization of cuisine and gastronomy as prime components in the formation of French identity. Her current research focuses on the dynamics of material culture. In the Department she offers courses in cultural sociology and also teaches regularly in the Columbia College Common Core (Literature-Humanities).
