Rachel Steely
PhD Candidate in History
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Graduate Student Associate
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Graduate Student Associate

The Golden Revolution: The Geopolitics of Global Soy Frontiers in the Twentieth Century
Rachel is a PhD Candidate in History and a scholar of the history of capitalism and commodities. Her research examines the political economy and political ecology of commodity frontiers, and her dissertation is an examination of the geopolitics of the global expansion of soybean frontiers across the twentieth century.