Assistant professor of history and director of the program in sustainability and justice at the College of Saint Scholastica in Duluth, Minnesota. He researches and writes about environmental issues, the history of agricultural science and politics, and international collaboration and exchange, particularly related to Colombia, Puerto Rico, and the United States. His work has won awards and been supported by fellowships from Fulbright, the Rockefeller Archive Center, the New York Botanical Garden, the American Historical Association, the American Society for Environmental History, the Agricultural History Society, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Profesor asistente de historia y Director del programa de sostenibilidad y justicia del College of Saint Scholastica en Duluth, Minnesota. Investiga y escribe sobre temas ambientales, la historia de la ciencia y la política agrícola, y la colaboración y el intercambio internacional, particularmente relacionados con Colombia, Puerto Rico y Estados Unidos. Su trabajo ha ganado premios y ha sido apoyado por becas del Programa Fulbright, el Rockefeller Archive Center, el Jardín Botánico de Nueva York, la Asociación Histórica Estadounidense, la Sociedad Estadounidense de Historia Ambiental, la Sociedad de Historia Agrícola y el Fondo Nacional de Humanidades.

Lorek, Timothy. 2023. Making the Green Revolution. Agriculture & Conflict in Colombia. The University of North Carolina Press.  https://uncpress.org/book/9781469673820/making-the-green- revolution/

Chastain, Andra B., Timothy Lorek (Editors), Itineraries of Expertise. Science, Technology, and the Environment in Latin America’s Long Cold War. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. https://upittpress.org/books/9780822945963/

Lorek, Timothy, “Keeping Time with Colombian Plantation Calendars” in Edge Effects. https://edgeeffects.net/keeping-time-with-colombian-plantation-calendars/

Lorek, Timothy. 2020. The Puerto Rican Connection: Recovering the “Cultural Triangle” in Global Histories of Agricultural Development. In Agricultural History, 94(1), 108-140.