Sarah Fouts is an Assistant Professor in the Department of American Studies and director of the Public Humanities Minor program. Fouts’ research interests include political economy, food studies, urban studies, ethnography, labor, and community engagement. Fouts is a 2022-2023 Whiting Public Engagement Fellow for the collaborative New Orleans-based work, “Project Neutral Grounds: At the Intersection of People, Food, and the Hustle.” Fouts is the principal investigator for the 2022-2023 ACLS Sustaining Public Engagement funded project entitled, “Baltimore Field School 2.0: Undoing and Doing Anew in Public Humanities.”