Nan Enstad

Nan Enstad is the Buttel-Sewell Professor of Community and Environmental Sociology and Director of the Food Studies Network at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is affiliated with the History Department, Gender and Women’s Studies Department, Afro-American Studies Department, and the Program in Public Humanities.

Her research and teaching focus on the history of global capitalism, examining how people have navigated and resisted its structures. She integrates interdisciplinary perspectives, merging insights from poetry, botany, marketing, and labor/cultural studies.

• PhD in History from the University of Minnesota
• Advocate for public higher education

Her recent work includes the book Cigarettes Inc.: An Intimate History of Corporate Imperialism (University of Chicago Press, 2018), which won the 2019 Albert J. Beveridge Award from the American Historical Association.

Contact: nenstad@wisc.edu