Matthew Morse Booker

A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Matthew Morse Booker descends from Maine small businesspeople (by way of Bellingham, Washington) on his mother's side and Virginia tobacco farmers (by way of Independence, Texas) on his father's side. He attended an inner-city nursery school, grades K-8 in a tiny rural school, a suburban Catholic high school, the University of California at Berkeley, Hindu College at the University of Delhi, the University of Oregon in Eugene, the University of Washington in Seattle, and Stanford University. Before, during and between schools, Booker worked with varying success as a bus driver, wine server, carpenter, landscaper, tile-setter's assistant, title insurance examiner, field ecologist, and newspaper editor.

Matthew teaches environmental and agricultural history at North Carolina State University and is the Vice President for Scholarly Programs at the National Humanities Center.