Dr. Mark Finlay received his B.A. in History from Grinnell College and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Iowa State University's History of Science and Technology Program. He is working on a monograph tentatively entitled American Rubber for War and Peace: Thomas Edison and the Search for a Domestic Rubber Crop, and several other projects in environmental history and the history of American agriculture.  He serves on the Editorial Board for Agricultural History, the Scientific Advisory Board for the Zeitschrift für Agrageschichte, and Board of Directors of the Society for Industrial Archeology. 

Courses

HIST 3330  History of Modern Germany
HIST 4970 European Historiography
HIST 5640 Topics in the History of Technology and Culture
Special Topics courses related to environmental and economic history

Recent Publications:

“A Brief History of Chemurgy and the American Search for Bio-Based Materials.” Journal of Industrial Ecology 7 (Spring 2004): 33-46.  
“Hogs, Antibiotics and the Industrial Environments of Postwar Agriculture,” in Industrializing Organisms: Introducing Evolutionary History, Susan Schrepfer and Philip Scranton, eds., (New York: Routledge, 2004), 237-60.
“New Sources, New Theses, New Organizations in the New Germany: Recent Research on the History of German Agriculture,” Agricultural History 75/3 (2001): 279-307. 

Home page or external links:

http://www.as.armstrong.edu/finlay/index1.htm