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: “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: 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.