{"id":5859,"date":"2015-06-20T12:48:32","date_gmt":"2015-06-20T16:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www-staging.bu.edu\/amnesp\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=5859"},"modified":"2024-09-09T12:59:50","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T16:59:50","slug":"sarah-phillips","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/profile\/sarah-phillips\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah T. Phillips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>United States History: environment, agriculture, politics, West<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><span>My research considers how national politics and governance are shaped by environmental and natural resource concerns. I am the author of\u00a0<\/span><i><span>This Land, This Nation: Conservation, Rural America, and the New Deal<\/span><\/i><span>, published in 2007, and co-author of\u00a0<\/span><i><span>The Kitchen Debate and Cold War Consumer Politics<\/span><\/i><span>, published in 2014. I have written essays and articles on the Dust Bowl, transatlantic agricultural exchange, antebellum reform, environmental history as a scholarly field, the American economy between World Wars I and II, and the conservation and environmental policy of state governors. I have just finished a new <a href=\"\/history\/files\/2023\/01\/Phillips_JAH_Dec2022.pdf\">article<\/a> for the\u00a0<\/span><i><span>Journal of American History\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span>on the modern agricultural\u00a0surplus and the free-market turn in farm commodity support policy during the 1960s.\u00a0From 2016 to 2022 I served as founding executive co-editor of\u00a0<\/span><i><span>Modern American History,\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span>a new journal from Cambridge University Press covering all aspects of the United States since the 1890s. My current book project, <i>Belly of Empire: Oklahoma\u2019s Progressive Politics and the End of Indian Territory<\/i>, considers how an interlaced study of Indigenous dispossession, land allotment, and white rural poverty can help stitch together the dominant national narratives of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. <\/span>I am the current President of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aghistorysociety.org\">Agricultural History Society<\/a> and an AHS Life Member.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>For a detailed academic bio and CV, please see Professor Phillip\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/history\/faculty\/sarah-t-phillips\/\">Department Profile<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6528,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/5859"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6528"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/5859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14653,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/5859\/revisions\/14653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/americanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}