Bart Elmore is an award-winning professor and writer who investigates the impact of big business on our environment.
Books
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Seed Money
An authoritative and eye-opening history that examines how Monsanto came to have outsized influence over our food system.
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Citizen Coke
An absorbing history of how Coke’s insatiable thirst for natural resources shaped the company and reshaped the globe.
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Country Capitalism
Bart Elmore uses the histories of five southern firms—Coca-Cola, Delta Airlines, Walmart, FedEx, and Bank of America—to investigate the environmental impact of our have-it-now, fly-by-night, buy-on-credit economy.
Media
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The Joe Rogan Experience
Bart speaks with Joe Rogan about the history of Monsanto and Coca-Cola on Episode #1722.
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The Wall Street Journal
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The Washington Post
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National Public Radio
Weekend Edition: Creating a throw-away culture: How companies ingrained plastics in modern life
Is Coca-Cola's Recycling Goal Feasible?
Going Plastic-less In The U.S.
The Future Of Genetically Modified Foods
From Southern roots to global dominance: The story of America's powerhouse corporations
Ohio State students, professors discuss participation in UN Climate Change Conference
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BBC News
Professor Bart Elmore Interviewed About Coke
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Awards & Recognitions
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The Dan David Prize is the largest history prize in the world. It recognizes outstanding scholarship that illuminates the past and seeks to anchor public discourse in a deeper understanding of history.
Bart Elmore was awarded the Dan David Prize in 2022.
Read The Washington Post article: A new MacArthur-style ‘genius grant’ for history names its first winners. -
New America’s Fellows Program invests in thinkers—journalists, scholars, filmmakers, and public policy analysts—who generate big, bold ideas that have an impact and spark new conversations about the most pressing issues of our day.
Bart Elmore was named a Carnegie Fellow in 2017 and Eric & Wendy Schmidt Fellow in 2018.
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The Lukas Prize Project honors the best in American nonfiction writing. Co-administered by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, the Lukas Prize Project annually presents four awards in three categories.
Bart Elmore won the 2020 J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award.
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The Organization of American Historians proudly announces the appointment of 28 U.S. historians to the Distinguished Lectureship Program. They join a renowned roster of speakers who share their expertise and scholarly research with a variety of audiences across the country. The historians were appointed by OAH President David W. Blight, upon recommendation by a nominating subcommittee.