Courses Taught
- HIST 3330 History of Modern Germany
- HIST 4970 European Historiography
- HIST 5640 Topics in the History of Technology and Culture
- Special Topics courses related to environmental and economic history
Academic Profile
- B.A. in History - Grinnell College
- M.A. and Ph.D. - Iowa State University's History of Science and Technology Program
Research Interests
- Current - Monograph tentatively entitled American Rubber for War and Peace: Thomas Edison and the Search for a Domestic Rubber Crop
- Environmental history and the history of American agriculture
Publications
- “A Brief History of Chemurgy and the American Search for Bio-Based Materials.” Journal of Industrial Ecology 7 (Spring 2004): 33-46
- “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
- “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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