Nick Foreman studies Early American History through the lens of Food and uses distribution sites like public marketplaces, trading posts, and hunting camps to examine the course of development in the cultural borderlands of North America. His current project is a history of food systems and cultural development in Louisiana during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through the actions of Native American, African, and working-class food traders.   

At OSU, he teaches courses in Food History, Early America, Native American History, and the history of American Music.