Dr. Nan Enstad

Biography

Nan Enstad is a Chair Professor in Community and Environmental Sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She also serves as the Director of the Food Studies Network and is affiliated with the Departments of History, Gender and Women’s Studies, Afro-American Studies, and the Program in Public Humanities. Enstad's research and teaching focus on the intersections of history, global capitalism, and the lived struggles of people. She completed her PhD in history at the University of Minnesota, where she developed a commitment to cultural, anti-racist, ethnic, labor, queer, and gender studies that informs her approach to the subject. As a humanities scholar, she is situated within the College of Agriculture, where she champions radical interdisciplinarity in academia and integrates diverse perspectives, including poetry, botany, and marketing analyses. Among her notable publications is the book "Cigarettes Inc.: An Intimate History of Corporate Imperialism" (Chicago, 2018), which won the 2019 Albert J. Beveridge Award from the American Historical Association.

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