His research interweaves histories of the global food system with histories of race, gender, and sexuality. He received his Ph.D. in History from Brown University and was previously a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Yale University’s Program in Agrarian Studies. His book, Breeding the Future: 4-H and the Roots of the Modern Rural World is forthcoming in 2015 with the University of Pennsylvania Press. His next project, a history of meat-making and technologies of biopolitical governance, is tentatively titled Purebred: Making Meat and Eugenics in Modern America. He tweets at @gnrosenberg.