Glenn Stone is an anthropologist and environmental scientist (and recovering archaeologist) who specializes in food and agriculture (both industrial and sustainable), biotechnology in food and agriculture (GMO crops), politics of technology, indigenous knowledge, food studies and science studies.
He has been named a Guggenheim Fellow, a Weatherhead Fellow at the School of Advanced Research, president of the Anthropology & Environment Society, and winner of the Morley Alumni Science Medal at Western Reserve Academy (a school out of which he was once thrown).
He has served on the faculty of Columbia Univ in NY (Asst. and Assoc. Professor), Washington Univ in St. Louis (Assoc. and Full Professor)., and is now Senior Research Professor at Washington & Lee University in Lexington Va.
His research has been in Nigeria, India, the Philippines, and the US (including archaeological research in the Southwest and Illinois Valley). His current projects concern CRISPR gene editing, digital agriculture, industrial agriculture and the Green Revolution, sustainable food production, and eugenics past and present.
His primary home is a farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains in western Amherst County, Virginia, with his wife Priscilla and Bluetick Coonhound Lulu.
He can be contacted at GDavisStone [at] wlu.edu for Washington & Lee matters, otherwise at GlennDavisStone [at] gmail.com.