Venus Bivar recently completed a Ph.D. in history at the University of Chicago. Her dissertation, entitled “The Ground Beneath their Feet: Agricultural Industrialization and the Remapping of Rural France, 1945-1976,” examines the role of land-use policy in the postwar industrialization of French farming. Broadly, the project explores the relationship between French farming and European integration, the emergence of competing claims on agricultural lands, and the ways in which French farmers accepted, rejected, and amended the transformations that were taking place in the countryside at the time. As a fellow at Berkeley, Ms. Bivar is teaching courses on farming and modern France in the Department of History. Her interests include environmental history, utopian thinking, polar exploration, and classical political economy.