About

Clare Gordon Bettencourt, PhD is historian trained in U.S. history and world history, with a focus on food history. Her research is on the history of food science & technology. Her most recent publication “Wonder Foods”: Food Science and Food Industry was published in the the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Food Studies. She is currently revising a manuscript on the history of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s food identity standards.

Clare grew up in San José, California. She served in the inaugural class of the FoodCorps program in AmeriCorps, worked as a University of California Global Food Initiative Fellow, has conducted freelance food history research for Bon Appétit magazine and a Dozen Cousins, served as a social media editor for The Recipes Project, and founded the Grad Eaters in Food Studies organization at UC Irvine.

She is currently the Communication & Advancement Manager for History San José.