As a native of Blairsville, Georgia, I hold a Bachelor of Arts in History from Young Harris College and a Master of Arts in History from East Tennessee State University. Now a third-year PhD student at Mississippi State University, I focus on Progressive and New Era food history, anatomy, and the broader cultural role of the stomach in American life. My research explores how the stomach served as both a medical and symbolic site of power, identity, and reform in the early twentieth-century South. Moving forward, I foresee my dissertation examining the political and cultural significance of the stomach in Georgia between 1900 and 1930, revealing how ideas about digestion shaped southern responses to race, gender, health, and regional change.