Associate Professor in the Department of History, College of Arts & Sciences, at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. Professor Olsson studies the history of the United States since the Civil War. He studies the history of the scientific, political, and agrarian inter-crossings between the US South, and Mexico since the Civil War until the Cold War. His book Agrarian Crossings: Reformers and the Remaking of the US and Mexican Countryside has won several awards in the US, like the Luciano Tomassini, in 2019.

Profesor asociado del Departamento de Historia de la Facultad de Artes y Ciencias de la Universidad de Tennessee Knoxville. Olsson estudia a historia de los entrecruces científicos, políticos y agrarios entre el sur de Estados Unidos y México desde la Guerra Civil hasta la Guerra Fría. Su libro Agrarian Crossings: Reformers and the Remaking of the US and Mexican Countryside ha ganado varios premios en Estados Unidos, entre ellos el Luciano Tomassini, en 2019.

Olsson, Tore. 2017. Agrarian Crossings: Reformers and the Remaking of the US and Mexican Countryside. New Jersey: Princeton University Press.

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691165202/agrarian-crossings

Olsson, Tore. 2020. Transplanting “El Tenesí”: Mexican Planners in the US South during the Cold War Era. In Andra Chastain and Timothy Lorek (eds.), Itineraries of Expertise. Science, Technology, and the Environment in Latin America’s Long Cold War. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, pp. 71-92.

https://upittpress.org/books/9780822945963/