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Jess Gilbert
Jess Gilbert is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Community and Environmental Sociology and in the Nelson Institute Center for Culture, History, and Environment at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he taught for thirty years. He focused on the history and sociology of agriculture, with research on family farming, agricultural policy, and African-American land ownership. In 2015, he published the award-winning Planning Democracy: Agrarian Intellectuals and the Intended New Deal (Yale University Press).