Participant Info
- First Name
- Ashton
- Last Name
- Merck
- Country
- United States
- State
- NC North Carolina
- ashtonwmerck@alumni.duke.edu
- Affiliation
- North Carolina State University
- Website URL
- Keywords
- Food safety, Food inspection, Consumer protection, Trade, Administrative Law, Business History, Legal History, Regulation
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Ashton Merck is a historian of law, business, and policy whose research focuses on how societies define and regulate uncertain risks. Her dissertation analyzed the evolution of self-regulation in food safety over the last half of the twentieth century, using a case study of the American poultry industry.
Merck’s research agenda has been shaped by a series of interdisciplinary research collaborations. While in graduate school, Merck worked with social scientists, natural scientists, and lawyers on a variety of projects at the nexus of business, public policy, and health and safety risks.
Currently, Merck is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Applied Ecology at North Carolina State University, where she collaborates with other risk scientists to address issues in responsible innovation and emerging technologies in agriculture.
- Recent Publications
- Media Coverage
- https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/01/08/historians-urge-departments-enthusiastically-and-substantively-prepare-grad-students
- Social Media
- @awmerck
- Country Focus
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 20th century, 21st century
- Expertise by Topic
- Capitalism, Economic History, Food History, Government, Higher Ed, Law, Politics, Rural & Agrarian History, Science, Technology
