Danielle Alesi is a historian and academic known for her work on early modern colonialism, environmental history, and human-animal relations. She is an assistant professor of history at Nazareth University in Rochester, New York, where she teaches and publishes on medieval and early modern colonialism, environmentalism, animal history, and food history in Europe and the Atlantic World. Alesi’s research traces how cultural and colonial processes shaped human interactions with animals and food in the early modern period. Her book *Eating Animals in the Early Modern Atlantic World Consuming Empire, 1492-1700* examines how European colonizers changed perceptions of animal edibility during the colonization of the Americas by analyzing Spanish, French, and English sources from regions such as Mesoamerica, Greater Amazonia, and the east coast of North America. Before this publication she completed a dissertation on related themes at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and participated in scholarly programs such as the Newberry Library’s National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute. Her book *Eating Animals in the Early Modern Atlantic World Consuming Empire, 1492-1700* was published by Taylor & Francis in 2025 and contributes to early modern Atlantic historiography.