Peer Reviewed Articles
Mitchel, Andrew and Thorayah Abdelqader. Flavors of Adaptation: Columbus, Ohio as a Stage of Interaction for Mediterranean and Mexican Restauranteurs. Food, Culture and Society. 2026.
Mitchel, Andrew. Building Home, Building Success: Oaxacan Chefs in Columbus, Ohio. Genealogy Special Issue: (Re)Centering Midwest Refugee Resettlement and Home. 2025.
Cohen, Jeffrey H., Paulette K. Schuster, Andrew Mitchel, Francisco Montiel-Ishino and Nydia Delhi Mata Sánchez. Why not stay: Chapulineras in Oaxaca and alternatives to emigration. International Journal of Business Anthropology. 2024.
Cohen, Jeffrey H. and Andrew Mitchel. Musical Interludes and Teaching Laboratory: Learning and Student Engagement in an Economic Anthropology Classroom. Teaching Anthropology. 2024.
Cohen, Jeffrey H., Andrew Mitchel, and Fernando Montiel-Ishino. Evaluating the Indigenous Response to COVID-19 in Rural Oaxaca, Mexico, Journal of Global Health. 2023.
Mitchel, Andrew & Jeffrey H. Cohen. Let the Kids Play: Latino Players, Differing Play Styles and Racial Stigma in Major League Baseball. Journal of Sport and Social Issues. 2023.
Book Reviews
Review: Chinese Espresso. FoodAnthro, Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition blog. 2026..
Review of México Between Feast and Famine: Food, Corporate Power, and Inequality, by Enrique C. Ochoa. Journal of Latin American Geography 24, no. 3 (2025): 291-294.
Review of Wolff, Lesley A, Culinary Palettes: The Visuality of Food in Postrevolutionary Mexican Art. H-LatAm. 2025.
Review of Fisher, Chelsea. 2023. Rooting in a Useless Land: Ancient Farmers, Celebrity Chefs, and Environmental Justice in Yucatan. Human Ecology. 2025.
Review of Cruz-Torres, María L. 2023. Pink gold: Women, shrimp, and work in Mexico. Journal of Political Ecology. 2024.
Review of A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community by Natalia Molina. Gastronomica. 2024.
Select Conferences and Invited Talks
Mitchel, Andrew. What is Culinary Violence? Invited Talk at The Anthropology of Food: Culture, Society and Eating, The Ohio State University Department of Anthropology. April 2, 2026. Columbus, OH (virtual).
Mitchel, Andrew. Nourishing The Heartland: Immigrants, Refugees, And Food Systems In The Midwest Roundtable (co-chair), annual meeting, Society for Applied Anthropology. March 2026. Albuquerque, NM.
Mitchel, Andrew. Beyond the Plate: Culinary Violence and the Oaxaca Chef. Eastern Washington University Department of History, Anthropology and Modern Languages and Literatures Brown Bag Talk. March 5, 2026. Cheney, WA.
Mitchel, Andrew. Ghosts of Oaxacan Beverages Past, Present, And Future, Ghastly Histories, Ghostly Beverages Panel (session organizer), annual meeting, American Anthropological Association. November 2025. New Orleans, LA.
Mitchel, Andrew. Mucho Más que un Plato: La Violencia Culinaria y El Chef Oaxaqueño. Invited Talk at Hispanic Cultural Studies, Eastern Washington University Spanish Department. November 12, 2025. Cheney, WA.
Mitchel, Andrew. Staring, Orientalism, and Expectations of Oaxacan Food. Invited Talk at Bodies, Minds and Movies, Eastern Washington University Disability Studies. October 22, 2025. Cheney, WA.
Mitchel, Andrew. Tenacity and Innovation for Oaxacan Chefs in Oaxaca City, Los Angeles, and Columbus. Chefs and Cookbooks panel, Association for the Study of Food and Society-Agricultural, Food and Human Values Conference, annual meeting. June 2025. Corvallis, OR.
Mitchel, Andrew. Tacos in the Heartland: The Oaxacan Food Landscape of Columbus, Ohio. Invited Talk for the Taft Research Center’s Food Studies Work Group, University of Cincinnati. April 23, 2025. Cincinnati, OH.
Mitchel, Andrew. Heritage on a Plate: Food and Cultural Preservation in the Oaxacan Communities of Columbus, Ohio, and Los Angeles, California. Making Meaning and Revitalizing Foodways Through Heritage, Culture, and Community Panel, annual meeting, Society for Applied Anthropology. March 2025. Portland, OR.
Mitchel, Andrew and Jake W. Dean. Tradition Meets Trend: The Socioecological Dynamics of Mezcal in Oaxaca’s Central Valleys. Entrepreneurship, Certification, and Policy as Revitalization or Obstacle Panel (session organizer), annual meeting, Society for Applied Anthropology. March 2025. Portland, OR.
Mitchel, Andrew. The Taco Landscape of Columbus, Ohio: A Latinx and Food Studies Talk. Invited Talk at Taco Planet: Food, Sustainability & Latin(x) American Cultures, The Ohio State University Department of Spanish and Portuguese. February 6, 2025. Columbus, OH.
Mitchel, Andrew. Taste, Success, and Identity: Oaxacan Chefs and the Dynamics of Cooking in Columbus, Ohio and Los Angeles, California, Invisible Labor, Visible Flavors: Latinx Experiences and Social Transformation in U.S. Food Systems Panel (session organizer), annual meeting, American Anthropological Association. November 2024. Tampa, FL.
Mitchel, Andrew. Cooking in Columbus, Los Angeles, and Oaxaca City: Oaxacan Chefs in a Transnational, Comparative Angle, The Migration Conference ’24. July 2024. Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México, Mexico City, Mexico.
Mitchel, Andrew. Icons of Mexicanidad: The Visions and Versions of Mexico Food Present in Columbus, Ohio, Taste the City Conference, Food and Tourism Panel. December 2023. International Business School, Manchester, United Kingdom (virtual).
Mitchel, Andrew. Taste, Décor and Business Acumen: How Oaxacan Chefs Meet and Reshape Consumer Expectations in Columbus, Ohio, Foodscapes in Transition panel (organizer), annual meeting, American Anthropological Association. November 2023. Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Mitchel, Andrew. Culinary Violence: How Oaxacan Chefs Persevere in the Midwest, poster, annual meeting, the Society for Economic Anthropology. May 2023. Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
Doulas, Michel, Andrew Mitchel, and Jeffrey H. Cohen. Negotiating Public and Private Space in Oaxaca, Mexico, poster, annual meeting, Society for Applied Anthropology. March 2023. Cincinnati, OH.
Mitchel, Andrew. Problematizing Food as Means of Transnational Adjustment: Culinary Violence in Columbus, Ohio, Circuits of Gustatory Power Panel, annual meeting, American Anthropological Association. November 2022. Seattle, WA.
Mitchel, Andrew. Culinary Violence and Stressed Latino Chefs in Columbus, Ohio, Transformations Conference. April 2022. Wayne State University, Detroit, MI (virtual).