Richard Steven Street is an independent scholar and writer. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Visiting Professor and Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center, Dr. Street has been an award-winning photographer, historian, and journalist specializing in California agriculture and agricultural labor. He is the author of" Beasts of the Field: A Narrative History of California Farmworkers, 1769-1913 "(Stanford, 2004), and he is currently finishing a multivolume history of California farmworkers.