Mallory Cerkleski (she/her) is a doctoral candidate in History at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy. She holds an M.A. in Food Innovation and Management from the University of Gastronomic Sciences and dual B.A. degrees in Sustainable Food Systems and Political Science from Guilford College. Her doctoral research focuses on the history of food rationing in Kerala, India, examining how infrastructures of food provisioning shaped everyday life, political consciousness, and domestic labor across the 20th century. While no longer a comparative project with Cuba, she remains interested in how the concept and memory of rationing in Cuba can inform cross-contextual understandings of food systems under communism. 

She served as an adjunct professor at the University of Padova, teaching the course Italian Food and Wine History, and was a visiting scholar at the Center for Development Studies in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India, from February-April 2025. Since April 2025, she has also been a visiting scholar at the South Asia Institute at the University of Heidelberg. She is a board member of the Graduate Association for Food Studies, a co-editor of the Graduate Journal of Food Studies, and the organizer and editor of the Culinary Chronicles project/book. 

Mallory documents her findings and thoughts on Instagram at @savoringtheages and savoringtheages.owlstown.net.