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Dr. Margaret Baker Weber

Pronouns
she/her/hers
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Teaching Professor
Content type
College of Arts and Sciences
History Department

Contact Information

Office
Hibbard Humanities Hall 718
124 Garfield Ave
Eau Claire, WI 54701
Phone
Email
Hours
2024-2025
Monday, Wednesday, Friday 7am-3pm
Office hours: Wednesday 11-1pm or by appointment
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Curriculum Vitae
Education

Education

B.S. Marquette University

M.A. Iowa State University

PhD Iowa State University

Teaching and Research Interests

Teaching and Research Interests

Weber has taught a variety of courses including World History to 1500, World History 1500 to Present, US History 1877 to Present, US Women's History, US Food History, History of the American Family, and Global History of Disease.

Her research interests include agricultural, environmental, and food history, US history, women and gender history, and globalization and commodities.

Published Research

Published Research

Articles

  • The Cult of Convenience: Marketing and Food in Postwar America. Enterprise & Society, First View (March 17, 2020), pp. 1-30
  • The American Way of Farming: Pioneer Hi-Bred and Power in Postwar America. Agricultural History, Vol. 92, No. 3 (Summer 2018), pp. 380-403

Book Reviews

  • Book Review of Meatpacking America by Kristy Nabhan-Warren. Agricultural History, Vol. 97, No. 3 (August 2023), pp. 508-510
  • Book Review of Rube Tube by Sara K. Eskridge. Agricultural History, Vol. 94, No. 2 (Spring 2020), pp. 317-319
  • Book Review of Profane Parables by Matthew Rindge. Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 50, No. 4 (September 2017), pp. 896-897
  • Book Review of Just Queer Folks by Colin R. Johnson. Journal of Critical Thought and Praxis, 2015

Other

  • “All Cooped Up: Gender and Chicken Industry after the Second World War.” Rural Women’s Studies Association Blogpost, Summer 2018
  • “Going Cage Free: Using Rural History in the Classroom.” H-Net Book Channel Essay. Fall 2017
  • Hindsight: History Alumni Newsletter, Assistant Editor, Iowa State History Department, Spring 2017 to Summer 2018
  • “Story about a Man Named Jed?: Gender Constructions in the Beverly Hillbillies.” Rural Women’s Studies Association Blogpost, Spring 2016
  • Margaret Weber Talks to Jeannie Whayne for Agricultural History. Agricultural History. Vol. 89, No. 1 (Winter 2015)