As a culinary historian, Ramin is most known for her multi-decade work researching and writing about the life of Chef Hercules Posey who was enslaved by George Washington. She studies foodways of enslaved African-Americans and mixed-race people in colonial and Early Federal America.

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Ramin is currently the Executive Director of the Westport Museum for History & Culture (formerly Westport Historical Society) in Westport, Connecticut where she has been recognized for evolving the institution toward inclusive interpretation of local history as part of the larger American story.

 

She has received prestigious award for Leadership in the Museum Field from the New England Museum Association (NEMA), awards of merit from the Connecticut League of History Associations (CLHO) and the coveted Award of Excellence from the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH). In 2025, she was the inaugural recipient of the Community Accelerator Award from Fairfield County Cultural Alliance.

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Ramin has been a Paul Cuffe Memorial Fellow for the For the Study of Minorities in American Maritime History and is a fellow at the Fred W. Smith Library for the Study of George Washington at Mount Vernon. In 2023  she received a Congressional Award of Special Recognition for her work.

 

Ramin's next book, Coal Pots & King Cane: How Caribbean Food Shaped New World (University of North Carolina Press) focuses on how Caribbean influenced North American cuisine as part of the Atlantic Trade. In 2026, Simon & Schuster/37 Inch will publish her biography of Chef Hercules Posey: Stirring Liberty: How George Washington's Enslaved Chef Transformed American Cuisine and Secretly Cooked His Way To Freedom.

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