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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