Ramin Ganeshram

Ramin Ganeshran, an award-winning journalist and historian, is the executive director of the acclaimed Westport Museum for History & Culture in Westport, CT. She received the Paul Cuffe Memorial Fellowship for the Study of Minorities in American Maritime History, the 2022/23 Fellow at the Fred W. Smith Library for the Study of George Washington at Mount Vernon, and a 2024 Frances “Frank” Rollin Fellowship. Her work studying networks of enslaved cooks has been supported by a Mars Wrigley’s American Heritage Chocolate Grant. She has written about food, food history, and foodways for The New York Times, New York Newdsay, The Washington Post, Epicurious, and others. She is a seven-time winner of the Society of Professional Journalist Award, a finalist for the IACP Bert Greene Award, and the author of a 2015 IACP award winner, Future Chefs: Recipes by Tomorrow’s Cooks Across the Nation and the World.