Lung Plague: Origins, Impact and Epidemiology of Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia

Kastner, Justin: - Dr Justin Kastner, a professor at Kansas State University (KSU), leads activities for several academic units at KSU, offers holistic perspectives on pedagogical innovation, and provides experiential learning through the incorporation of archival research so students of veterinary medicine and public health can better understand the past. Dr Kastner holds graduate degrees from the United Kingdom and Canada (PhD, University of Guelph; PgDip, University of Edinburgh; MSc, London South Bank University) and teaches and publishes in a multidisciplinary range of domains: the global food system and trade policy, economic history, the history of public health, globalization and cross-border cooperation, multidisciplinary thinking and writing, and the theory and practice of interdisciplinary scholarship. A Truman (1997), Fulbright (1998-1999), and Rotary (1999-2000) scholar with experience in local government (city commissioner, 1995-97, in Manhattan, Kansas) and global governance (World Trade Organization, Geneva, 2000), Dr Kastner is committed to public service. He has led STEM (e.g., U.S. Departments of Homeland Security and Agriculture) and capacity-building (USDA Cochran program) training-grant programs for several foreign governments. The Frontier Field Trip model, pioneered with Dr Jason Ackleson (Virginia), is operationalized in these trainings and other student-centered excursions. Hundreds of Dr Kastner's mentees have fed their curiosities and grown in scholarly skills through memorable Frontier Field Trips-to international trade ports of entry, private-sector firms, policymaking offices, libraries, and museums. These trips' workshops and archival-research activities foster multidisciplinary breadth in and amongst DR Kastner's mentees.