Kendra Smith-Howard Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison B.A., Saint Olaf College 060Q Social Sciences Department of History University at Albany, SUNY 1400 Washington Avenue Albany, New York 12222 Phone: (518) 437-5375 Fax: (518) 442-5301 ksmithhoward@albany.edu

Select Publications: Pure and Modern Milk: An Environmental History since 1900, under contract with Oxford University Press. “Antibiotics and Agricultural Change: Purifying Milk & Protecting Health in the Postwar Era” Agricultural History 84 (Summer 2010). Winner of the 2010 Vernon Carstensen Award from the Agricultural History Society “Perfecting Nature’s Food: A Cultural and Environmental History of Milk in the United States, 1900-1970.” Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin, 2007. “American Studies and Environmental History: Provoking Thought and Practice,” American Studies (Lawrence, KS) 46 (Spring/Summer 2005): 5-22. Select Awards/Honors: Mellon Fellow, Virginia Historical Society, spring 2009. Runner-up, Allan Nevins Prize (awarded by the Society of American Historians for best-written dissertation on an American subject), spring 2008. Capstone Teaching Award, College of Letters and Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2007. Pre-doctoral Fellowship, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, 2005. University of Wisconsin-Madison, History Department Dissertation Fellowship. Current Research Interests: My research interests lie at the intersection of environmental history, agricultural/rural history, and the history of public health. My current work—about the history of milk and dairy farming—explores how changes to milk, farmsteads, and cow and human bodies reflected broader transformations in Americans’ ideas of nature, health, and risk in the twentieth-century United States.