I am an assistant professor of Modern American History at Montana State University-Billings. I study the historical connections between corporations and their environments. In addition to teaching courses on modern US and environmental history, I am currently working on adapting my dissertation, Nature’s Brew: An Environmental History of the American Brewing Industry into a book. The environmental history program at Ohio State provided me with the opportunity to learn from leading experts in the field and prepared me to step into a teaching-based faculty position from day one. Studying environmental history at Ohio State also sparked my passion and appreciation for all the wonderful non-human things that make our extraordinary world possible. When I'm not working or chatting with someone about the history of beer, I enjoy hiking and camping in Montana’s Beartooth and Absaroka Mountains with my wife and our two dogs.