McKay Jenkins
Tilghman Professor, English Environmental Journalism
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716
Biography
McKay
Jenkins is a journalist, nonfiction writer, and the Cornelius Tilghman
Professor of English, Journalism, and Environmental Humanities, Jenkins is the
author of the book Food
Fight: GMOs and the Future of the American Diet (Avery, January, 2017), which
examines the contentious national debate over the safety, politics, and
environmental implications of genetic engineering and industrial food. He is
also the author of ContamiNation (Avery, 2016 -
previously published as What's Gotten Into Us: Staying Healthy in a Toxic World (Random House, 2011),
which chronicles his investigation into the myriad synthetic chemicals we encounter
in our daily lives, and the growing body of evidence about the harm these
chemicals do to our bodies and the environment; and the co-author (with E.G. Vallianatos) of Poison Spring: The Secret History of Pollution
and the EPA (Bloomsbury,
2014) that Booklist (in a starred review) called "a jaw-dropping
expose" and "a resounding call for genuine and sustained
environmental responsibility." Along with his colleagues in the science
and nonprofit environmental education sector, Jenkins is currently helping
build a statewide Master Naturalist Certification Program for the state of
Delaware. At the university, he is a recipient of both the University
Excellence in Teaching Award and the College of Arts and Sciences
Excellence in Teaching Award.
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