Michael A. Di Giovine is Professor of Anthropology at West Chester University; Director of its Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology, and Museum Studies Program; and Director of the Ethnographic Field School on Sustainable Food and Cultural Heritage in Perugia, Italy. An Honorary Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Michael is also a former tour operator whose research in Europe and Southeast Asia focuses on the intersection of food, heritage, and tourism/pilgrimage. He is the founding President of the Council on Heritage and the Anthropology of Tourism (CHAT) at the American Anthropological Association, where he also serves on its Cultural Heritage Advisory Committee. He has authored or edited over a dozen books, including The Heritage-scape: UNESCO, World Heritage and Tourism (2009) and Edible Identities: Food as Cultural Heritage (2016), and most recently, The Routledge Handbook of Food and Cultural Heritage with Rául Matta(2025). Michael is the series editor of Bloomsbury’s The Anthropology of Tourism: Heritage, Mobility and Society.www.wcupa.edu/michaeldigiovine.