Bryan McDonald

Bryan McDonald

Bryan McDonald

Associate Professor of History
Director of Interdisciplinary Programs
Former Joyce L. and Douglas S. Sherwin Early Career Professor in the Rock Ethics Institute
402 Weaver Building

Education

BA, English, in honors (summa cum laude), Virginia Tech, 1997
MA, Political Science, Virginia Tech, 1999
PhD, Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine, 2008

Biography

Bryan McDonald’s research focuses on the intersection of environment and security around food in American history since the end of World War II. His current book project examines the use of food as a form of American power from 1945 to 1975. He is also working on an interdisciplinary manuscript that uses history and ethics to examine the ideas used by Americans during the second half of the twentieth century to conceptualize good food.

Dr. McDonald’s first book, Food Security (Polity Press, 2010), explored how understandings of world food problems shifted during the late twentieth century. He is also the co-editor of two books that examine challenges to human security: Global Environmental Change and Human Security (MIT Press, 2009) and Landmines and Human Security: International Politics and War’s Hidden Legacy (SUNY Press, 2004).

Dr. McDonald’s articles and reviews have appeared in Penn State Journal of Law and International Affairs, Global Environmental PoliticsJournal of Agricultural and Environmental EthicsStudies in Conflict and TerrorismEnvironment, The Environmental Change and Security Project Report, Global Environmental Politics, and The Natural Resources Journal, among others.

Website(s)

http://bryanlmcdonald.com/

Bryan McDonald