Matthew Booker

Booker, M., & Ericson, K. (2023). The Seed Oyster Inspectors: Labor and Power in Trans-Pacific Tidelands, 1945-1970s. The Pacific Circle: History and Studies of Pacific Science. Presented at the The Pacific Circle: History and Studies of Pacific Science, Kyoto University.

Booker, M. (2022, August 11). Filth into Food? Lessons from the Past. https://doi.org/10.52750/789766

Dunn, R. R., Sanchez, M. C., & Booker, M. M. (2022). Sweetness, Power, Yeasts, and Entomo-terroir. In V. Bienvenue & N. Chare (Eds.), Animals, Plants and Afterimages: The Art and Science of Representing Extinction. Retrieved from https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/BienvenueAnimals

Landis, E. A., Oliverio, A. M., McKenney, E. A., Nichols, L. M., Kfoury, N., Biango-Daniels, M., … Wolfe, B. E. (2021). The diversity and function of sourdough starter microbiomes. ELife, 10. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.61644

Andersen, L. K., Abernathy, J., Berlinsky, D. L., Bolton, G., Booker, M. M., Borski, R. J., … Reading, B. J. (2021). The status of striped bass, <scp><i>Morone saxatilis</i>,</scp> as a commercially ready species for U.S. marine aquaculture. Journal of the World Aquaculture Society, 52(3), 710–730. https://doi.org/10.1111/jwas.12812

Ericson, K., & Booker, M. (2021). The ‘Pacific’ Oyster Trade and the Possibilities of Trans-Pacific Environmental History. Sixth Biennial Conference of East Asian Environmental History. Presented at the Sixth Biennial Conference of East Asian Environmental History, Kyoto, Japan.

Booker, M. (2021). Visualizing San Francisco Bay’s Forgotten Past. In K. Coulter, W. Graf von Hardenburg, & F. A. Jorgensen (Eds.), Ant, Spider, Bee: Chronicling Digital Transformations in the Humanities (pp. 117–126). Munich: Spider & Cloud.

Booker, M. (2021). Why do People Care for Sourdough? In R. Dunn, M. Vandegrift, K. Dufresne, K. Ciccone, L. Nichols, & M. Jewell (Eds.), Fermentology. https://doi.org/10.52750/533004

Down By the Bay: San Francisco's History Between the Tides. (2020). In University of California Press. Retrieved from https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520355569/down-by-the-bay

Booker, M. (2020). Integrating History into the Restoration of Coho Salmon in the Siuslaw River, Oregon. In Sustainable Fisheries Management (pp. 625–636). https://doi.org/10.1201/9780429104411-46

Booker, M. (2020, April). Loss, Grief, and the Humanities in the Time of Pandemic. Retrieved from Humanities in Action website: https://action.nationalhumanitiescenter.org/loss-grief-humanities-pandemic/

Serr, M. E., Valdez, R. X., Barnhill-Dilling, K. S., Godwin, J., Kuiken, T., & Booker, M. (2020). Scenario analysis on the use of rodenticides and sex-biasing gene drives for the removal of invasive house mice on islands. Biological Invasions, 22(4), 1235–1248. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-019-02192-6

Booker, M. (2019). Beyond Despair: Theory and Practice in Environmental Humanities. National Humanities Center. Presented at the National Humanities Center, Durham, NC.

Food Fights: How History Matters to Contemporary Food Debates. (2019). In University of North Carolina Press. Retrieved from https://uncpress.org/book/9781469652894/food-fights/

Ludington, C. C., & Booker, M. M. (2019). Introduction. In Food Fights (pp. 1–12). https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469652894.003.0001

Sourdough Cultures. (2019, August 29). Retrieved from Rachel Carson Center website: https://seeingthewoods.org/2019/08/29/sourdough-cultures/

Booker, M. (2019). The Century-Old Origins of Contemporary Food Safety Debates. In C. Ludington & M. Booker (Eds.), Food Fights: How History Matters to Contemporary Food Debates (pp. 145–161). Chapel Hill, NC: UNC Press.

Booker, M. M. (2019). Who Should Be Responsible for Food Safety? Oysters as a Case Study. In Food Fights: How History Matters to Contemporary Food Debates. Retrieved from https://uncpress.org/book/9781469652894/food-fights/

Booker, M. (2018). Before The Jungle: The Atlantic origins of US food safety regulation. Global Environment, 11(1), 12–35. https://doi.org/10.3197/ge.2018.110102

Booker, M., & Shapiro, L. (2018). What Sourdough Bread Tells Us About the Anthropocene. Anthropocene and Citizen Science: Evidence Gained through the “Opening-up” of Academic Knowledge Production? Presented at the Anthropocene and Citizen Science: Evidence Gained through the “Opening-up” of Academic Knowledge Production?, Deutsches Museum, Munich.

Booker, M. (2017). Humanities Moment: China Camp State Park. National Humanities Center.

Booker, M., Piccone, C., Vincent, S., & Griffin, M. (2017). Oysters in the City. Raleigh, NC: Center for Geospatial Analysis, NC State University.

Booker, M. (2016). 150 Years of Observing San Francisco Bay. In Fisher Bay Observatory Essay #3 (Fisher Bay Observatory Essay No. 3). San Francisco: Exploratorium Science Center.

Booker, M. (2016). Modifying Tradition: Food safety in the 20th century U.S. Consuming the World: Eating and Drinking in Culture, History, and Environment. Presented at the Consuming the World: Eating and Drinking in Culture, History, and Environment, Rachel Carson Center, Munich.

Booker, M. (2015). Placing responsibility for food safety in the twentieth century. American Society for Environmental History. Presented at the American Society for Environmental History, Washington, D.C.

Booker, M. (2015). What Should We Eat? RCC Perspectives, (1), 45–50. https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/6941

Booker, M. (2015). Why Did Americans Stop Eating Locally? In Rachel Carson Center Blog.

Booker, M. (2014). Comment, panel on public history and environmental history. American Society for Environmental History. Presented at the American Society for Environmental History, San Francisco, CA.

Booker, M. (2014). Lessons from the boom and bust of an Atlantic fishery. Post-collapse: Ecology and Environmental Humanities conference. Presented at the Post-collapse: Ecology and Environmental Humanities conference, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Booker, M. (2014). Organizer and Chair, roundtable on urban environmental history. American Society for Environmental History. Presented at the American Society for Environmental History, San Francisco, CA.

Booker, M. M. (2014). The nature of borders: Salmon, boundaries, and bandits on the Salish Sea. Pacific Historical Review, Vol. 83, pp. 534–535. https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2014.83.3.534

Booker, M. M. (2013). [Review of A negotiated landscape: The transformation of San Francisco's waterfront since 1950]. Pacific Historical Review, 82(2), 325–326.

Booker, M. M. (2013). Down by the bay: San Francisco's history between the tides. In Down by the Bay: San Francisco's History between the Tides. Retrieved from http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84887735167&partnerID=MN8TOARS

Booker, M. M. (2013). Garone, P. 2011. The Fall and Rise of the Wetlands of California’s Great Central Valley. Wetlands, 33(2), 379–380. https://doi.org/10.1007/S13157-013-0387-Z

Booker, M. (2013). No Illusions, No Fantasy, No Melodrama: The Legacy of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring. In 50th Anniversary of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, College of Natural Resources. Raleigh, NC: NC State University.

Booker, M. (2013). Why I wrote Down by the Bay. In Save the Bay Blog.

Booker, M. (2012). Assessing the spatial turn in US history. Organization of American Historians/National Council of Public Historians. Presented at the Organization of American Historians/National Council of Public Historians, Milwaukee, WI.

Booker, M. (2012). Digital urban environmental histories. American Society for Environmental History. Presented at the American Society for Environmental History, Madison, WI.

Booker, M. (2012). Making Use of Nature: How resources became commodities in America during the Nineteenth Century. Organization of American Historians/National Council of Public Historians. Presented at the Organization of American Historians/National Council of Public Historians, Milwaukee, WI.

Booker, M. M. (2012). The Fall and Rise of the Wetlands of California's Great Central Valley. JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY HISTORY, Vol. 43, pp. 139–141. https://doi.org/10.1162/jinh_r_00360

Booker, M. M. (2012). Visualizing San Francisco Bay's Forgotten Past. Journal of Digital Humanities, 1(3). Retrieved from http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/1-3/visualizing-san-francisco-bays-forgotten-past-by-matthew-booker/

Booker, M. M. (2011). urban farming in the west: A new deal experiment in subsistence homesteads. Western Historical Quarterly, Vol. 42, pp. 407–408. https://doi.org/10.2307/westhistquar.42.3.0407

Booker, M., De Groot, M., & Harris, K. (2010). From Salt Ponds to Refuge in San Francisco Bay. In Spatial History Project. Stanford.

Booker, M. (2010). How did the Japanese oyster become American? Society for the History of Technology. Presented at the Society for the History of Technology, Tacoma, WA.

Booker, M. M. (2010, August). Our Better Nature: Environment and the Making of San Francisco. PACIFIC HISTORICAL REVIEW, Vol. 79, pp. 465–466. https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2010.79.3.465

Booker, M. (2010). Visualizing the Story of San Francisco Bay. Narrating the Visual Conference. Presented at the Narrating the Visual Conference, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC.

Booker, M. (2009). Looking Backward to Look Ahead: San Francisco Bay Environmental History and Impending Climate Change. San Francisco Estuary Institute. Presented at the San Francisco Estuary Institute.

Roberts, A., & Booker, M. (2009). Shell Mounds in San Francisco Bay Area. In Spatial History Project.

Booker, M. M. (2009, February). The Country in the City: The Greening of the San Francisco Bay Area. PACIFIC HISTORICAL REVIEW, Vol. 78, pp. 129–U142. https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2009.78.1.129

Lee, G., Norton, A., Robichaud, A., & Booker, M. (2009). The Production of Space in San Francisco Bay: San Francisco Bay’s Atlantic Oyster Industry, 1869-1920s. In Spatial History Project.

De Groot, M., & Booker, M. (2009). The Struggle for Ownership of the San Francisco Bay Area, 1769-1972. In Spatial History Project.

Booker, M. (2009). Visualizing San Francisco Bay, Doing Spatial History. Western History Association. Presented at the Western History Association.

Booker, M., & Norton, A. (2009). Visualizing Sea Level Rise and Early Bay Habitation, 6000BP to Present: The Emeryville Shellmound. In Spatial History Project.

Lee, G., Norton, A., Robichaud, A., & Booker, M. (2008). Morgan Oyster Company’s Bay Holdings, 1930. In Spatial History Project.

Lee, G., Norton, A., Robichaud, A., & Booker, M. (2008). San Mateo County Bay Ownership, 1877-1927. In Spatial History Project.

Booker, M. M. (2007). [Review of Crab wars: A tale of horseshoe crabs, bioterrorism, and human health]. Journal of the History of Biology, 40(2), 382–383.

Booker, M. (2007). San Francisco Bay’s Immigrant Oysters. European Society for Environmental History meeting. Presented at the European Society for Environmental History meeting, Amsterdam.

Booker, M. (2006). Centering Nature: Humans, History and the Environment. Method and Meaning: A Workshop in Historical Meaning and Interpretation. Presented at the Method and Meaning: A Workshop in Historical Meaning and Interpretation, Department of History, Duke University.

Booker, M. M. (2006). [Review of Oyster growers and oyster pirates in San Francisco Bay]. PACIFIC HISTORICAL REVIEW, 75(1), 63–88. https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2006.75.1.63

Booker, M. (2006). Oysters and Marine History. Sea Educational Association Marine Environmental History Workshop. Presented at the Sea Educational Association Marine Environmental History Workshop, Key West, FL.

Booker, M. (2005). The Chao Praya, Arakawa, and Thames: Re-Engineering Rivers and Societies in Bangkok, Tokyo, and London. American Society for Environmental History. Presented at the American Society for Environmental History, Houston, Texas.

Booker, M. (2004). Foraging, Private Property, and Environmental Inequality on Bay Area Shorelines. American Society for Environmental History. Presented at the American Society for Environmental History, Victoria BC.

Booker, M. (2001). Pacific Northwest. In C. Miller, M. Cioc, & K. Showers (Eds.), History in Dispute (Vol. 7). New York: St. James Press/Gale Publications.

Booker, M., & Klingle, M. (2001). Pacific Salmon. In C. Miller, M. Cioc, & K. Showers (Eds.), History in Dispute (Vol. 7). New York: St. James Press/Gale Publications.

Booker, M., & Gilman, K. How to Think in the Environmental Humanities. In Humanities in Class, National Humanities Center. Humanities in Class, National Humanities Center.