Resume

• 2008

  Franklin & Marshall College

  Amherst College

  Lancaster

  PA

  Visiting Assistant Professor

  Franklin & Marshall College

  Amherst

  Massachusetts

  United States

  Professor

  Amherst College

• 2007

  Oberlin College

  Oberlin

  OH

  Visiting Assistant Professor

  Oberlin College

• 2006

  University of San Francisco

  Kiriyama Visiting Research Fellow

  San Francisco Bay Area

  University of San Francisco

  Amherst

  Massachusetts

  Assistant Professor

  Amherst College

  Amherst

  MA

  Associate Professor

  Amherst College

  English

  Spanish

• 2003

  Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

  History

  Yale University

• 1999

  M.Phil.

  History

  Yale University

• 1993

  Bachelor's degree

  History

  Swarthmore College

• 1991

  International Baccalaureate

  History

  Armand Hammer United World College

• 1989

  High School Diploma

  Falmouth Academy

• Amherst College

  Co-author with James Beattie and Emily O'Gorman

  \"Rethinking the British Empire through Eco-Cultural Networks: Materialist-Cultural Environmental History

  Relational Connections and Agency

  \" Environment and History 20

  no. 4 (November 2014): 561-75. * \"Nutrient Rifts

  \" Discard Studies Compendium (June 2014). Available online: http://discardstudies.com/discard-studies-compendium/ * \"Global Entomologies: Insects

  Empires

  and the 'Synthetic Age' in World History

  \" Past & Present 223

  no.

  Melillo

  Edward D. | Amherst College

  The First Green Revolution: Debt Peonage and the Making of the Nitrogen Fertilizer Trade

  1840-1930

  The First Green Revolution: Debt Peonage and the Making of the Nitrogen Fertilizer Trade

  1840-1930

  Research

  Student Development

  Higher Education

  Teaching

  Student Affairs

  Qualitative Research

  History of the Pacific World

  Environmental History

  History

  Maritime History

  Grant Writing

  University Teaching

  Public Speaking

  Latin American History

  Academic Writing

  Strangers on Familiar Soil: Rediscovering the Chile-California Connection

  This groundbreaking history explores the many unrecognized

  enduring linkages between the state of California and the country of Chile. The book begins in 1786

  when a French expedition brought the potato from Chile to California

  and it concludes with Chilean president Michelle Bachelet’s diplomatic visit to the Golden State in 2008. During the intervening centuries

  new crops

  foods

  fertilizers

  mining technologies

  laborers

  and ideas from Chile radically altered California's development. In turn

  Californian systems of servitude

  exotic species

  educational programs

  and capitalist development strategies dramatically shaped Chilean history.

  Strangers on Familiar Soil: Rediscovering the Chile-California Connection

  Edward