Jack Bouchard is an Assistant Professor of History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, where he teaches environmental history with an emphasis on global and premodern perspectives. He researches commercial fishing, island/coastal ecologies and changing global foodways in the 15th-16th centuries, and is currently working on his first book, Terra Nova: Food, Water and Work in an early Atlantic World (Yale, forthcoming), a history of the northwest Atlantic in the sixteenth century. His work has previously been published in The William & Mary Quarterly, Environmental History, and Annales: Histoire, sciences sociales.