Lana Dee Povitz is a writer, historian, and assistant professor of history and Jewish studies at Middlebury College in Vermont.

 

Her first book, Stirrings: How Activist New Yorkers Ignited a Movement for Food Justice was published in the Justice, Power, and Politics series of the University of North Carolina Press in 2019.

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She has written for The Los Angeles Review of Books, Reviews in American History, and The Oral History Review, among other publications.

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She is currently at work on a biography of American feminist, writer, and artist Shulamith Firestone.