Joshua Specht
Department of History
Assistant Professor
- History of meat in the U.S.
- History of food
- History of American Business / capitalism
- Environmental history
- Settlement of American West
Specht in the News
The New York Times
The Rise and Fall of Prime-Rib Nation
December 24, 2023
We see on holidays and special occasions the times when the kind of longer traditions and deeper histories of how we relate to food come out in ritual,” said Joshua Specht, the author of “Red Meat Republic” and an associate professor of history at the University of Notre Dame.
BYU Radio
How Beef Changed America
August 06, 2021
Guest: Joshua Specht, visiting assistant professor, University of Notre Dame, and author of “Red Meat Republic: A Hoof-to-Table History of How Beef Changed America”.