Participant Info
- First Name
- Megan
- Last Name
- Birk
- Country
- United States
- State
- TX Texas
- Megan.birk@utrgv.edu
- Affiliation
- Professor of History, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
- Website URL
- Keywords
- United States, Social Welfare, Rural and Agricultural, Childhood and Family, Institutional Care, Midwest, Progressive Era, Poor farms, orphans' homes, institutionalized children, children removed from parents
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
- Recent Publications
The Fundamental Institution: Poverty, Social Welfare, and Agriculture in American Poor Farms, University of Illinois, 2022
“The better the farm, the better the food: institutional diet, agricultural practices, and nutrition in U.S. almshouses” Food, Culture, and Society, 23:3, 2020
Fostering on the Farm: Child Placement in the Rural Midwest, University of Illinois Press, 2015 (Winner of the Vincent P. DeSantis Prize for Best First Book)
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century, 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Children & Youth, Family, Food History, Rural & Agrarian History
