About
Milov is a historian of the twentieth century United States. Her work focuses on how organized interest groups and everyday Americans influence government policy and the terms of political debate. She is currently working on a project that examines the relationship between gender and whistleblowing in the modern United States. Her first book, The Cigarette: A Political History is a history of tobacco in the twentieth century that places farmers, government officials, and citizen-activists at the center of the story. Rather than focusing exclusively on “Big Tobacco,” she argues that domestic and global cigarette consumption rose through the efforts of organized tobacco farmers and US government officials; and that it fell as a result of local government action spurred by the efforts of citizen-activists and activist lawyers.
