Rob Wallace received a Ph.D. in biology at the CUNY Graduate Center, and did post-doctorate work at the University of California, Irvine, with Walter Fitch, a founder of molecular phylogeny. He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he is both a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Global Studies, University of Minnesota, and a deli clerk at a local sandwich shop. He is co-author of Farming Human Pathogens: Ecological Resilience and Evolutionary Process (Springer) and blogs at ​‘Farming Pathogens’ — a blog about disease in a world of our own making.