Astrid Knox-McConnell

Astrid Knox-McConnell is a first-year Southern Studies master’s student. Originally from Bradford, a city in northern England, she achieved her BA in History and Politics of the Americas from University College London in 2024. After a rewarding year studying abroad at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she first stumbled across both Food Studies and Southern Studies, Astrid decided to come back to the South and continue what she started, with the help of the British Association of American Studies. Her current research focuses on the role of food in queer protest, and she particularly intends to highlight oral histories of queer Southerners.