New histories of food and farming

Since 2010, I’ve been focusing my scholarly and public energies very largely around food and farming, including the uses of…

6 years ago

Living history and reenactment

My interest in commemorative behavior really started with my deep puzzlement about military reenactors, specifically those who depicted the American…

6 years ago

Public humanities work

I’m both a scholar and a practitioner of public humanities, in a couple of different directions. Much of my food-…

6 years ago

The unfinished industrial past

As someone interested in the processes by which some piece of life becomes framed as “past,” I find industrial history…

6 years ago