Adam Romero awarded the UW Simpson Center Society of Scholars Fellowship

Adam Romero received the UW Simpson Center Society of Scholars Fellowship for his new book project Industrial Chemicals and the Problem of Too Much Food (1945-1985). The book explores the relationship between the chronic overproduction of food and fiber in the United States and the rapid expansion of industrial chemicals in the decades after WWII.

Black and white drawing depicting a farmer being held at gunpoint.
The Hand of Overproduction. California Cultivator, 1960.