The first Townsend Center Graduate Student Fellow from the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, Geoffrey Mann examines in Race, Labor, Freedom: The Meaning of the Wage in the Western Woods, an important historical intersection of race and class in the United States. In the timber industry in western Oregon, where the forces of mechanization, western expansion, and physical geography come together to generate a particular dynamism of both capital and labor, Mann emphasizes the interaction between the material role of the wage–the political economy of wage determination, structure, administration and relative income levels– and its symbolic and ideological substance: the changing social meaning of the wage and wage labor for different people at different times. Geoffrey Mann will be the Marian E. Koshland Fellow at the Townsend Center this year.