Courses Taught
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HIST 3330 History of Modern Germany
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HIST 5640 Topics in the History of Technology and Culture
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Special Topics courses related to environmental and economic history
Academic Profile
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B.A. in History - Grinnell College
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M.A. and Ph.D. in the History of Technology and Science- Iowa State University
Research Interests
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Environmental history of the Georgia islands
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History of American and German agricultural science and biotechnology
Recent Publications and Scholarship
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Growing American Rubber: Strategic Plants and the Politics of National Security (Rutgers University Press, 2009). Winner of the Theodore Saloutos Memorial Prize for best book published in the field of agricultural history, 2009.
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"A Brief History of Chemurgy and the American Search for Bio-Based Materials." Journal of Industrial Ecology 7 (Spring 2004): 33-46
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"Hogs, Antibiotics, and the Industrial Environments of Postwar Agriculture," in Industrializing Organisms: Introducing Evolutionary History, Susan Schrepfer and Philip Scranton, eds., (New York: Routledge, 2004), 237-60
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"New Sources, New Theses, New Organizations in the New Germany: Recent Research on the History of German Agriculture," Agricultural History 75/3 (2001): 279-307
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Book Review Editor, Agricultural History, 2009-Present
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Over sixty books reviewed for Science, Isis, Technology and Culture, H-German, Environmental History, Agricultural History, British Journal for the History of Science, Minerva, Florida Historical Quarterly, Annals of Science, among others.
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