Nicholas Bascuñan-Wiley

Nicholas Bascunan-Wiley, PhD

Assistant Professor

Ph.D. Northwestern University, 2024

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Email Nicholas.Bascunan-Wiley@stonybrook.edu

Areas of Interest

Migration; Culture; Globalization; Foodways; Sensation/The Body; Ethnography

Bio

At the intersection of migration and cultural studies, my research examines the sensorial dimensions of diasporic culture and transnational connectivity. My most recent project focuses on the culture of food and eating as it is shaped by the long-term and long-distance connections between communities in Chile and Palestine. Additionally, I enjoy exploring new forms of critical qualitative inquiry, particularly in global, culinary, and digital worlds.

Selected Publications

Bascuñan-Wiley, N. and Schwalb, J. (2024). Binding Identity: Palestinian-Chilean Cookbooks and the Formation of a Diasporic Cuisine. Special issue of The Jerusalem Quarterly, 99(1), 14-32.

Bascuñan-Wiley, N. and Jungsuk Howard, M. (2024). Illegible Multiculturalisms: Making and Digesting Empanadas and Doenjang-jjigae. Special issue of The Journal of Electronic Publishing, 27(1), 331-350.

Bascuñan-Wiley, N. (2024). Sensory Authenticity: Embodying and Commodifying “the Other.” In Jackie Hogan, Fae Chubin, and Sarah Whetstone (eds), Consuming Bodies: Body Commodification and Embodiment in Late Capitalist Societies, 127-146. Routledge.

Bascuñan-Wiley, N. and Brockway, E. (2024). Making and Breaking Bread: The Promises and Pitfalls of Migration Discourse in Food Tour Television. Food, Culture, and Society, 27(4), 1073-1090.

Bascuñan-Wiley, N., DeSoucey, M., and Fine, G.A. (2022). Convivial Quarantines: Cultivating Co-presence at a Distance. Special issue of Qualitative Sociology, 45(3), 371-392.

Bascuñan-Wiley, N. (2021). Migration and the Senses. Sociology Compass, 15(3), 1-16.