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Paula Fujiwara is a third generation Japanese American who presented “Food Production, Consumption and Resistance among Japanese Americans Incarcerated by the United States Government during World War II”at the 2019 Symposium on Food and Power, for which she received an honorable mention as a first time presenter.

In addition to her interest in the world’s myriad food cultures, her particular focus is on Victorian and Edwardian etiquette books, cookbooks and household manuals.

In her professional life, she is the Scientific Director of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union), which addresses the clinical, political and epidemiologic issues surrounding lung disease, particularly tuberculosis and tobacco use, in low- and middle-income countries.