{"id":5044,"date":"2013-02-13T12:27:01","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T17:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/history\/?post_type=profile&p=5044"},"modified":"2026-05-08T10:15:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T14:15:23","slug":"sarah-t-phillips","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/history\/profile\/sarah-t-phillips\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah T. Phillips"},"content":{"rendered":"
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United States History: environment, agriculture, politics, West<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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My research considers how national politics and governance are shaped by environmental and natural resource concerns. I am the author of\u00a0<\/span>This Land, This Nation: Conservation, Rural America, and the New Deal<\/span><\/i>, published in 2007, and co-author of\u00a0<\/span>The Kitchen Debate and Cold War Consumer Politics<\/span><\/i>, 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. <\/span>A 2022 <\/span>article<\/a><\/span>\u00a0in the <\/span>Journal of American History <\/i>analyzes <\/span>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 <\/span>Modern American History, <\/i><\/span>a new journal from Cambridge University Press covering all aspects of the United States since the 1890s. My current book project, <\/span>Belly of Empire: Oklahoma\u2019s Radical Politics and the End of Indian Territory<\/i><\/span>, considers how an interlaced study of Indigenous dispossession and white rural poverty can help stitch together the dominant national narratives of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A recent article<\/a>, \u201cIndian Landlords and Socialist Votes,\u201d appeared in Agricultural\u00a0History. <\/i><\/span>I am a Life Member of the <\/span>Agricultural History Society.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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