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Rebecca L. Spang

Professor of History and Director, Liberal Arts and Management Program (LAMP), Indiana University

Professor of History and Director, Liberal Arts and Management Program (LAMP), Indiana University Author of _The Invention of the Restaurant: Paris and Modern Gastronomic Culture_ (Harvard University Press, 2000; new edition with foreword by Adam Gopnik, 2020; translated into Japanese, Portuguese, Turkish, and Modern Greek) and of _Stuff and Money in the Time of the French Revolution> (Harvard University Press, 2015). Both books were awarded the Gottschalk Prize for the best book in eighteenth-century studies, making me the only two-time winner of that prize. I also write on occasion for the _Financial Times_ and the TLS. Appointed at Indiana University since 2006, I was previously on the faculty at UCL (University College London) where I held the post of Reader, European History. Before going to UCL, I had a three-year appointment in the Michigan Society of Fellows.