Rachel Newcomb

Rachel Newcomb grew up in South Carolina and holds an MA in the Writing Seminars from Johns Hopkins University, as well as a PhD in Anthropology from Princeton. During graduate school, she spent two years living in Morocco, where she did research on the lives of Moroccan women and also learned to cook Moroccan food.

She is a regular contributor to the Washington Post book review, and her articles have appeared in publications including USA Today, Huffington Post, The Christian Science Monitor and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Currently, Rachel Newcomb is an associate professor of Anthropology at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, where she also holds the Diane and Michael Maher Chair of Distinguished Teaching.