ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Susan Zieger writes about the modern history and literature of consumerism. Her first two books explored addiction and media immersion in the nineteenth century.

Growing up in Staten Island, New York, the surrounding skyline filled with the gantry cranes of New Jersey ports and the World Trade Center looming across New York Harbor, she was intrigued from a young age by global trade. Pursuing that interest in her new book, Logistics and Power, she explores how supply chains have changed the way we consume and live.

A professor of English at the University of California in Riverside – a North American logistics hub – she interviewed students who work in the region’s numerous warehouses, recording their stories to understand the human aspect of logistics work.

Zieger holds a Ph.D. in English literature from UC Berkeley and a MSc. in the history of science, medicine, and technology from Imperial College, London. She has held fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, and the Rockefeller Foundation Center in Bellagio, Italy.