Atar David

Atar David is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at the University of Texas at Austin. He received a B.A. and an M.A. in Middle East Studies from Ben Gurion University. 

Atar research rests at the intersection of agricultural history, commodity history, and environmental studies. He is interested in the cultural roots of agrarian traditions, how they move and are negotiated, and how they unfold economically, socially, and ecologically.  His current project traces the circulation of agricultural commodities and agronomic knowledge between the Middle East and the American Southwest from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century