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Book:Red Meat Republic, Princeton University Press (May, 2019).
Selected Public Writing
"Cash Cows: Meatpacking and the Specter of Coronapolitics," The Baffler (May, 2020).
"American Bull," Aeon (June, 2019).
"The Price of Plenty," The Guardian (May, 2019).
Selected Academic Publications
"Roundtable: Animal History in a Time of Crisis" Agricultural History 2020.
"Commodity History and the Nature of Global Connection" Journal of Global History 2019; doi: 10.1017/S1740022818000396.
“‘For the Future in the Distance’: Cattle Trailing, Social Conflict, and the Development of Ellsworth, Kansas” Kansas History (Summer, 2017).
“Animal History after Its Triumph: Unexpected Animals, Evolutionary Approaches, and the Animal Lens” History Compass 2016; doi: 10.1111/hic3.12322.
"Finding Its Way: Thoughts on Environmental History" Process, official blog of the Organization of American Historians, January 2016.
“The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of the Texas Longhorn: An Evolutionary History” Environmental History 2015; doi: 10.1093/envhis/emv148.