Dr Anna Colquhoun

Anna Colquhoun is a social anthropologist based at the SOAS Food Studies Centre, where she is a Research Associate.

Anna has a degree in Anthropology & Archaeology from the University of Cambridge (1996) and an MA in the Anthropology of Food from SOAS (2015). Her PhD, 'Making Local Specialities: Food, Place and Value in Istria' (SOAS, 2024), examined the intersections of making food, place and value in this rapidly changing borderland region.

Anna co-edited the book Food Beyond Terroir: Tasting Place and Placing Taste in Global Perspective (Berghahn 2025), which pushes the boundaries of what we think we know about taste-place relations. Her research interests include the cultural economy and place making, rural and gastronomic tourism, hospitality and cooking, localised and post-socialist food systems. 

Anna has lived in the UK and the USA and worked for many years in international development, culinary education, food writing, consultancy and hospitality. She currently lives in Croatia, where she runs a culinary guesthouse.

Colquhoun, Anna & Katharina Graf, eds. 2025. Food Beyond Terroir: Tasting Place and Placing Taste in Global Perspective. Berghahn.

• The cultural economy and place making
• Rural and gastronomic tourism
• Hospitality and cooking
• Localised and post-socialist food systems.

Culinary Anthropologist