I am a PhD candidate in history at the University of California, Irvine, and I will complete my dissertation this summer. Previously, I earned a Master of Arts from California State University, Northridge in 2007, and a Bachelor of Arts from the same in 2004. I specialize in the cultural and environmental history of modern Britain, the history of food, science, technology, and medicine. My research right now is a cultural and environmental history of wheat, flour, and bread in Britain and th