Marguerite S. Shaffer

Marguerite S. Shaffer is Professor of History and Global & Intercultural Studies and an affiliate in the Institute for the Environment and Sustainability at Miami University, Ohio. She also serves as the coordinator of the Institute for Food at Miami. She is the author of See America First: Tourism and National Identity, 1880-1940, editor of Public Culture: Diversity, Democracy, and Community in the United States, and co-editor of Rendering Nature: Animals, Bodies, Places, Politics with Phoebe S. K. Young.  She is also series editor for the Nature and Culture Series at University of Pennsylvania Press.  She recently helped create EducatingFromtheGroundUp.org, a collaborative digital environmental humanities project funded by the USDA and Ohio Humanities.