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Joshua Frens-String is an Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, having received his Ph.D. in History from New York University in 2015. His research focuses on modern Latin America, particularly the politics of food and the historical context of revolution. His book, "Hungry Revolution: Politics Food Making Modern Chile," published by the University of California Press in 2021, examines the intersection of food politics and social revolutions in Chile. Currently, Frens-String is exploring transnational histories related to the Green Revolution and the evolution of agricultural fertilizers in South Latin America. He has worked as a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow and has contributed to academic journals such as NACLA and Radical History Review. His teaching covers a range of topics within Latin American history, including labor history, global agricultural history, and U.S.-Latin American relations, and he is active in editorial boards for relevant academic journals.
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