Amy Singer is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Having spent the past decade studying the production of symbolically and economically valuable cultural goods within the transnational specialty food industry, her current project builds on these interests by exploring the symbolic construction and strategic distribution of human breastmilk. Her work has been published in journals such as Poetics, Cultural Sociology, Food Culture & Society, and the American Journal of Cultural Sociology. At Franklin & Marshall, she teaches courses on cultural sociology, intimate markets, the sociology of food, and classical sociological theory.
