Philip McMichael is Professor of Development Sociology at Cornell University. His research brings a world-historical comparative method to the political history of capitalism through the lens of agrarian questions, food regimes, agrarian movements, the global land grab and the ‘agrofuels project.’ He has served as the President of the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee on Agriculture and Food, and worked with the FAO, UNRISD, the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty and La Vía Campesina. His publications include Settlers and the Agrarian Question: Foundations of Capitalism in Colonial Australia (Cambridge, 1984), The Global Restructuring of Agro-Food Systems (Cornell, 1994, editor), New Directions in the Sociology of Global Development, co-edited with Fred Buttel (Elsevier, 2005), Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective (Pine Forge, 2008, 4th edition), Contesting Development: Critical Struggles for Social Change (Routledge, 2010, editor), and Biofuels, Land and Agrarian Change, co-edited with Jun Borras & Ian Scoones (Routledge, 2011). More details can be found at: http://www.cals.cornell.edu/cals/devsoc/research/research-projects/phil-mcmichael.cfm