Meet the Faculty: Scott Barton

Scott Alves Barton is a Cultural Anthropologist of African Diaspora Foodways at Notre Dame, and previously was an executive chef for over 25 years. Scott’s research focuses on Diaspora women’s work and knowledge, intergenerational teaching/learning, cultural heritage, and political resistance in Northeastern Brazil. Scott is a public scholar at Lynden Sculpture Garden. He serves as co-chair of African Diaspora Religions in the American Academy of Religion, a Trustee of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery, and Board Member of the Association for the Study of Food and Society, and an Advisory Board Member for Indigo Arts Alliance. His forthcoming manuscript, Reckoning with Violence and Black Death follows his exhibition on Anti-Black violence, funerary foods and ancestrality, Buried in the Heart.