Lisi Krall is a Professor of Economics at the State University of New York, Cortland. Her current research focuses on the emergence of agriculture and the configuration of human economic order into an economic superorganism. Her essays and articles on political economy, human ecology, and the evolution of economic systems appear in such diverse journals as the Cambridge Journal of Economics, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, and The Ecological Citizen. Her 2010 book, Proving Up: Domesticating Land in U.S. History, explored the connections of economy, culture, and land in U.S. history. She has been a Fulbright Scholar, a SUNY Senior Scholar, and a recipient of the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Research.