Sarah T. Phillips

Faculty Fellow
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Boston University

Education

BA, Florida State University; PhD, Boston University

Expertise

United States history; conservation and environmental policy; farm and food politics; history of rural development

Biography

Sarah Phillips is Assistant Professor of History at Boston University. Her research focuses on the history of American agricultural and environmental policy and the international influence of U.S. rural development practices.

She is the author of This Land, This Nation: Conservation, Rural America, and the New Deal (Cambridge University Press, 2007), and articles on antebellum agricultural reform, transatlantic agricultural exchange, the interwar economy, and the environmental policies of state governors. Her current book project, The Price of Plenty: From Farm to Food Politics in Postwar America, examines the political history and global repercussions of twentieth-century American agricultural plenty and farm commodity oversupply.