Dr. Catherine Donnelly is a professor of nutrition and food science at the University of Vermont and an expert on Listeria and other foodborne pathogens. In 2017 Dr. Donnelly won the James Beard Award for Reference and Scholarship for her work as the editor-in-chief of The Oxford Companion to Cheese, the most comprehensive cheese encyclopedia ever published. Dr. Donnelly is also the editor of the book Cheese and Microbes.