Rachel Steely

Postdoctoral Fellow, Fellowships & Writing Center, Harvard University
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 of commodity frontiers, and her dissertation is an examination of the geopolitics of the global expansion of soybean frontiers across the twentieth century.