Michael Wise

Michael D. Wise (associate professor) is an environmental historian of food, agriculture, and the colonial experience in modern North America. He is the author of Producing Predators: Wolves, Work, and Conquest in the Northern Rockies, the co-editor (with Jennifer Jensen Wallach) of The Routledge History of American Foodways, and the author of many articles and essays on the historical dimensions of meat and carnivorousness. His research has been supported by the Social Science Research Council, the Newberry Library, the Huntington, and other public and private agencies. He is currently co-editor of the Journal Historical Geography as well as co-editor of the interdisciplinary book series Food and Foodways, published by the University of Arkansas Press.