Natasha Bernstein Bunzl
Visiting Fellow
Natasha Bernstein Bunzl is a PhD candidate and Steinhardt Fellow in Food Studies at New York University in the Department of Nutrition and Food Studies. She holds a MA in Anthropology of Food from SOAS in London and a BA from Cornell University.
Her research focuses on how people understand and interact with a new food system after migration. Specifically, she asks how immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers use their knowledge and memories of food to build and define their lives. She focuses on migration in and to the Americas and pays particular attention to the way people who have life experience with food scarcity interact with and understand food abundance.
During her fellowship at the RSC she will work on a paper titled “New Americans making New American Cuisine.” which is based on ethnographic data gathered in the summer of 2025 while conducting participant observation as part of a culinary training program for refugees and asylum seekers in Brooklyn, New York.