Courtney Fullilove

Associate Professor of History

Wesleyan University

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Courtney Fullilove

Emporia, Kansas
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Herbarium specimens of Krymka wheat, Vavilov Research Institute of Plant Industry, St. Petersburg, Russia
Specimens of Durum wheat from Kazakhstan and the United States of America in the ICARDA gene bank

Courtney Fullilove is an Associate Professor of History and affiliated faculty in the Science in Society Program and the College of the Environment at Wesleyan University, where she teaches nineteenth-century U.S. social history, environmental history, and the history of science and technology in global perspective. She researches the history of practices now gathered under the rubric of world development: sustainability, biodiversity, intellectual property law, traditional knowledge, and cultural heritage. She is author of The Profit of the Earth: The Global Seeds of American Agriculture (University of Chicago Press, 2017) and is currently working on a book about biodiversity preservation.

tajik farmers harvesting grain
Pamiri grain silo, chadud, tajikistan
mix of legumes and grain for planting
Afghan-Tajik market at Khorog

Since 2010 Fullilove has accompanied international teams of genetic resource specialists on biodiversity collection missions targeting traditional varieties and wild relatives of cereal crops in the Caucasus and Central Asia. She is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, Germany.

Armenian farmer at Turkish border
armenian farmer holding marginal wheat
collecting legumes undersown with wheat, Tajikistan
threshing wheat, institute of botany, armenia

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