Kenneth M. Sylvester
Affiliated Programs:
Michigan Historical Demography Workshop
Funded Research:
Assistant Research Scientist, Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, University of Michigan.
Ph.D., York University
Dr. Sylvester has interdisciplinary interests in environmental history, historical demography, agricultural land use, and rural social history. He serves as principal investigator of a four-year NICHD-funded study, Demography and Environment in Grassland Settlement, which examines the human signature of agricultural land use in 25 grassland settings across Kansas, 1860-1940.
Recent Publications
Books
Sylvester, Kenneth M. 2001. The Limits of Rural Capitalism: Family, Culture, and Markets in Montcalm, Manitoba, 1870-1940. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Abstract.
Journal Articles
Sylvester, Kenneth M., and Geoff Cunfer. 2009. "An Unremembered Diversity: Mixed Husbandry and the American Grasslands." Agricultural History, 83(3): 352-383. DOI:10.3098/ah.2009.83.3.352. Licensed Access.
Sylvester, Kenneth M. 2007. "Ecological frontiers on the grasslands of Kansas: Changes in farm scale and crop diversity." Journal of Economic History, 67(2): 516-516. DOI:10.1017/S0022050707000198. Licensed Access.
Sylvester, Kenneth M., Susan Hautaniemi Leonard, and Myron Gutmann. 2006. "Demography and Environment in Grassland Settlement: Using Linked Longitudinal and Cross-Sectional Data to Explore Household/Agricultural Systems." History and Computing, 14(1&2): 31-60.
Chapters
Sylvester, Kenneth M., and Myron Gutmann. 2008. "Changing Agrarian Landscapes Across America: A Comparative Perspective." In Agrarian Landscapes in Transition edited by Charles Redman and David Foster. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Sylvester, Kenneth M., and Myron Gutmann. 2008. "Dustbowl Legacies: Long Term Change and Resilience in the Shortgrass Steppe." In Agrarian Landscapes in Transition edited by Charles Redman and David Foster. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Sylvester, Kenneth M. 2007. "Rural to Urban Migration: Finding Household Complexity in a New World Environment." In Household Counts: Canadian Households and Families in 1901 edited by Peter Baskerville and Eric W. Sager. 147-179. University of Toronto Press.
Sylvester, Kenneth M., and C.L. Redman. 2007. "Integrating the Biophysical and Social Sciences." In Managing Agricultural Landscapes for Environmental Quality: Strengthening the Science Base edited by Schnepf, Max and Craig Cox. Ames, Iowa: Soil and Water Conservation Society.
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