Louis, where she pursues research and teaching in three broad fields: European, economic, and environmental history. More specifically, her interests include the history of capitalism, agriculture and international trade, and the human history of climate change. Her first book, based on an award-winning dissertation, charts the meteoric rise of the farm sector in postwar France. She is currently working on two new projects. The first studies the emergence of economic growth as both an economic category of analysis and a political objective, while the second examines the social consequences of port development and urban planning in Marseille. Professor Bivar received her doctoral training at the University of Chicago, and spent two years at the University of California at Berkeley on a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship.