Candice Goucher

Candice Lee Goucher is Professor of History and co-director of the Collective for Social and Environmental Justice at Washington State University, United States. She specialises in world history, African history, Caribbean history and the history of food.{{cite web|title=Candice L. Goucher|website=History: Faculty|publisher=Washington State University|url=https://history.wsu.edu/faculty/candice-l-goucher/|accessdate=18 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161013091916/https://history.wsu.edu/faculty/candice-l-goucher/|archive-date=13 October 2016|url-status=dead}} Her previous post was as Chair of the Black Studies department at Portland State University, Oregon.{{cite web|title=Dr. Candice Goucher|url=http://directory.vancouver.wsu.edu/people/candice-goucher|website=Campus directory|publisher=Washington State University|accessdate=18 February 2016}}

Goucher has a master's degree in Art history and archeology from Columbia University and a Ph.D. (1984) in African history from the University of California, Los Angeles.

She was one of two lead scholars involved in a 26-part video and online course Bridging World History.{{cite web|title=About the course: Advisory Board|url=http://www.learner.org/courses/worldhistory/about_advisors.html|website=Bridging World History|publisher=Annenberg Learner|accessdate=18 February 2016}}

Her 2014 book Congotay! Congotay! A Global History of Caribbean Food (Routledge, 2014) won the Gourmand Award for "Best Book on Caribbean Food (National Category)" for 2016.{{cite web|title=Dr. Candice Goucher's book wins 2016 Gourmand Award|date=25 January 2016 |url=https://history.wsu.edu/2016/01/25/dr-candice-gouchers-book-wins-2016-gourmand-award/|publisher=Washington State University|accessdate=18 February 2016}}

She is on the editorial board of the seven-volume Cambridge World History, and co-edited its volume 2: A World with Agriculture, 12,000 BCE–500 CE (2015) with Graeme Barker.{{cite web|title=The Cambridge World History Volume 2|url=http://universitypublishingonline.org/cambridge/histories/ebook.jsf?bid=CBO9780511978807|publisher=Cambridge University Press|accessdate=18 February 2016}}