Professor Jack Bouchard is an Assistant Professor of History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. He teaches environmental history, with an emphasis on global and premodern perspectives. Dr. Bouchard is interested in the histories of premodern maritime environments and foodways, and researches commercial fishing, island/coastal ecologies and changing global foodways in the 15th-16th centuries. His main project focuses on the birth of modern commercial fisheries as part of early European overseas expansion, especially at present-day Newfoundland. He is also interested in researching and teaching food history, and previously served for two years as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Before ‘Farm to Table’: Early Modern Foodways and Culture project at the Folger Shakespeare Library.
