October 15, 2020
Dr. Bryan McDonald, PhD, Director of Interdisciplinary Programs with the College of the Liberal Arts and Associate Professor of the Department of History at Penn State University.
The Environmental Studies Department's Earth Issues Seminar Series continues with Dr. Bryan McDonald, PhD, Director of Interdisciplinary Programs with the College of the Liberal Arts and Associate Professor of the Department of History at Penn State University. Dr. McDonald will discuss "Food Power: The Role of the United States in Ensuring Food Security in a Complex World."
Bio:
"Bryan McDonald, Ph.D., is the Director of Interdisciplinary Programs in the College of the Liberal Arts and an Associate Professor in the Department of History at The Pennsylvania State University. Dr. McDonald is a historian of modern America with research and teaching interests in food, environment, security, and resilience. He is currently working on a book project exploring food as a security issue in modern American history. His most recent book, Food Power: The Rise and Fall of the Postwar American Food System (Oxford University Press, 2017), explores how food was deployed in the first decades of the Cold War to promote American national security and national interests. He is also the author of Food Security (Polity Press, 2010), which investigates how globalization and global change have reshaped food systems in ways that have significant impacts for the national security of states and the human security of communities and individuals. Dr. McDonald is the co-editor of two books that examine human security problems: Global Environmental Change and Human Security (MIT Press, 2009) and Landmines and Human Security: International Politics and War’s Hidden Legacy (SUNY Press, 2004). He has published more than 25 articles, book chapters and reviews as well as a number of commentaries and policy documents."
Further information
- Location: Online
- Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- Cost: Free