About
About AG Tribble
I am an anthropology Ph.D. candidate and Public Health Masters student at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. I currently work as a lecturer in the Department of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Cultures at Mississippi State University. My research focuses on the relationship between food and health among households in Iraq. My dissertation focuses on the economic sanctions in Iraq during the 1990’s and the resulting ramifications for household food insecurity and chronic health. I am interested in how stressors like food insecurity experienced in utero and early childhood impact the long-term likelihood of chronic diseases as an adult. My research attempts to connect these individual-level health issues to the food system within Iraq and the Middle East.
I grew up in Carrollton, Georgia. My father is a cattle farmer, and my mother is a teacher. My love for agriculture now helps me in my research with rural farming communities in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq. My primary hobbies include cooking Kurdish food and other cuisines from around the world, learning more Arabic and Kurdish, hiking, and loving on my Corgi, Waffles.