Emma Weigley
Emma Seifrit Weigley was an American professor of nutrition. Her husband was military historian Russell Weigley.
Early life
Emma Seifrit was born in Reading, Pennsylvania. She graduated from Albright College in 1954. She completed doctoral studies in nutrition at New York University in 1971, with a thesis titled Sarah Tyson Rorer, a Biographical Study.Career
Emma Seifrit was a clinical instructor in nutrition at Reading Hospital after college, and won an essay award from the American Dietetic Association in 1960. She taught home economics at Albright College and nutrition at Drexel University; she was also an adjunct professor of nursing at the University of Pennsylvania.Publications by Weigley included "The High Fat Diet", "The Philadelphia Chef: Mastering the Art of Philadelphia Cookery", "'It might have been euthenics': The Lake Placid Conferences and the Home Economics Movement", "The Professionalization of Home Economics", Sarah Tyson Rorer: The Nation's Instructress in Dietetics and Cookery, a biography based on her dissertation, "Infant Feeding Practices: A Century of Transitions", and Robinson's Basic Nutrition and Diet Therapy, a textbook. She also co-edited Essays on History of Nutrition and Dietetics with E. Neige Todhunter, a collection of essays published on the fiftieth anniversary of the American Dietetic Association. The collection included her own essay, "Food in the days of the Declaration of Independence". Her collection of Sarah Tyson Rorer papers is housed at the American Philosophical Society library. She also wrote the article on Rorer for the ''American National Biography.''