A Companion to American Agricultural History. Группа авторов

Notes on Contributors

      J.L. Anderson is Professor of History at Mount Royal University, in Calgary, Alberta. He holds a PhD from Iowa State University and is the author of numerous publications, including Capitalist Pigs: Pigs, Pork, and Power in America (2019), Industrializing the Corn Belt: Agriculture, Technology, and Environment, 1945–1972 (2009), as well as an edited collection The Rural Midwest since World War II (2014). He is a past president of the Agricultural History Society.

      Andrew C. Baker is Associate Professor of History at Texas A&M University-Commerce. He is the author of Bulldozer Revolutions: A Rural History of the Metropolitan South (2018) and has published award-winning articles in Environmental History and Agricultural History. His work focuses on the interactions between the built environment, cultivated landscapes, and the natural environment. He is currently researching a history of arsenic as mining waste, an agricultural chemical, and a common pollutant.

      Nancy K. Berlage is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Public History Program at Texas State University. She is the recipient of numerous teaching, scholarship, and service awards, as well as fellowships and grants. Berlage previously published Farmers Helping Farmers: The Rise of the Farm and Home Bureaus, 1914–1935 (2016), which received several awards. She is currently completing a book project, Modernity, Memory and the Uses of the Past in Rural America. She received her BA from the University of Chicago and MA and PhD from Johns Hopkins University.

Megan Birk is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, specializing in rural social welfare and the Progressive Era. She is the author of numerous articles about child welfare and nineteenth-century institutional care. Her 2015 book Fostering on the Farm: Child Placement in the Rural Midwest won the Vincent P. DeSantis Prize, and her most recent book, The Fundamental Institution: Poverty, Social Welfare, and Agriculture in American Poor Farms (2022), details the methods of localized, indoor relief common in the rural US and their connections to agriculture.

      Brian Q. Cannon is the Neil L. York Professor of History and Chair of the History Department at Brigham Young University, where he directed the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies for 15 years. He has served as president of the Agricultural History Society and on the editorial board of Agricultural History. He is the author of three books and numerous articles and book chapters dealing with agricultural, rural, and western American history, including Remaking the Frontier: Homesteading in the Modern West (2009), a history of agricultural settlement on federal irrigation projects.

      Peter A. Coclanis is Albert R. Newsome Distinguished Professor of History and Director of the Global Research Institute at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill. He has been at UNC-Chapel Hill since 1984, the year he received his PhD in History from Columbia University. He works mainly in economic history, agricultural history, business history, and demographic history, and has published widely in these fields. He is past president and a Fellow of the Agricultural History Society.

      Jonathan Coppess is on faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, director of the Gardner Agriculture Policy Program, and author of The Fault Lines of Farm Policy: A Legislative and Political History of the Farm Bill (2018). Previously, he served as Chief Counsel for the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, Administrator of the Farm Service Agency at the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), and Legislative Assistant to Senator Ben Nelson. He grew up on his family’s farm in western Ohio, earned his Bachelors’ degree from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and his Juris Doctor from The George Washington University Law School in Washington, DC.

      David H. DeJong earned a Bachelor’s degree in American history from Arizona State University and a Masters and doctorate in American Indian Law

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