Frontier at Kansas State University

Welcome To Frontier

An interdisciplinary program for the historical studies of border security, food security, and trade policy
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The Frontier Program

Kansas State University and New Mexico State University

Border security, food safety and security, and trade policy are issues often studied in rigid disciplinary channels. The Frontier program--a part of Food Safety and Security at Kansas State University--involves researchers from K-State and New Mexico State who seek to treat these issues as interrelated. No one disciplinary method can adequately analyze them, nor can any one of these issues be studied in isolation. Because border security, food security, and trade are interconnected, they require a blended, interdisciplinary approach that can bring different perspectives and methods of analysis to bear on these complex issues. Just as Frontier researchers seek to examine issues that cross international frontiers, they also seek to cross disciplinary borders.

 

This month in history

In November 1863, Edinburgh-based veterinary professor John Gamgee wrote to the London Times, sharing his concerns about the cattle disease Rinderpest.  Rinderpest had secured a foothold in continental Europe and Asia, and Dr. Gamgee argued it was only a matter of time before the disease entered Great Britain.  Indeed, two years later, on 29 May 1865, the SS Tonning from the Baltic port of Revel (in modern-day Estonia) arrived into harbor at Hull, England.  A consignment of asymptomatic but Rinderpest-infected cattle were unloaded, initiating an outbreak across the country.
 

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