thesis_year birth_place influences thesis_title awards fields workplaces doctoral_advisors birth_date spouse residence article_title citizenship alma_mater
1951 dover , new jersey ruth benedict alexander lesser eric wolf eric williams cañamelar rican proletariat : the contemporary culture of a rural puerto huxley -lrb- 1996 -rrb- franz boas award for exemplary service to memorial anthropology -lrb- 2012 -rrb- medal -lrb- 1994 -rrb- aaa distinguished lecturer economic anthropology , food history yale university johns hopkins university ruth benedict julian steward 16 november 1922 jacqueline wei mintz cockeysville , maryland sidney mintz
 united states brooklyn -rrb- college -lrb- b.a. -rrb- columbia university -lrb- ph.d.
sidney mintz

sidney wilfred mintz -lrb- born november 16 , 1922 -rrb- is an anthropologist best known for his studies of the caribbean , creolization , and the anthropology of food .
mintz received his phd at columbia university in 1951 and conducted his primary fieldwork among sugar-cane workers in puerto rico .
later expanding his ethnographic research to haiti and jamaica , he produced historical and ethnographic studies of slavery and global capitalism , cultural hybridity , caribbean peasants , and the political economy of food commodities .
he taught for two decades at yale university before founding the anthropology department at johns hopkins university , where he has remained for the duration of his career .
mintz ' history of sugar , `` sweetness and power '' , is considered one of the most influential publications in cultural anthropology and food studies .
