Oliver Lazarus is a PhD candidate in the History of Science Department. He studies the environmental history of the United States in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focusing in particular on the place of animals in processes of state formation, capitalist development, and environmental change. His dissertation locates the foundations of the exponential growth in global domestic animal life in the U.S. government’s attempts to industrialize and globalize an American model of industrial animal agriculture. The project reveals how this model ultimately supported state and and private livestock interests over environmental and human health, and how the spread of certain forms of domesticated animal life came to act as a form of spatial management that meshed with U.S. foreign interests in the twentieth century.
Contact:
olazarus@g.harvard.edu