Rachel Steely
Postdoctoral Fellow, Fellowships & Writing Center, Harvard University
PhD, History
PhD, History
Invisible Giant: The Global Rise of Soy in the Twentieth Century
Rachel completed her PhD in History in 2022. She is 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.