Food Safety & Security at Kansas State University

Assistant Professor, food safety & security

Assistant professor of food safety and security in the Department of Diagnostic Medicine/Pathobiology, Justin Kastner conducts scholarly activities related to trade policy, the history of science, economic history, and multidisciplinary research and writing. Dr. Kastner publishes and lectures on an array of issues: the World Trade Organization (WTO), the WTO Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures, veterinary history, the history of public health, U.S.-Canadian border issues, and the history of trade disputes regarding food safety and animal disease. In addition to conducting multidisciplinary research, Dr. Kastner routinely authors commentaries for the press. Co-director of the website for Food Safety and Security at Kansas State University (http://fss.k-state.edu), Dr. Kastner has worked with teams to create multimedia information products (e.g., online videos and FLASH-based research tools). Dr. Kastner also coordinates Frontier—an interdisciplinary program for the historical studies of border security, food safety, and trade policy (http://fss.k-state.edu/frontier/).

Dr. Kastner currently teaches Multidisciplinary Thought and Presentation, a new course at K-State.