珍妮·巴克-迪瓦恩博士是研究美国农业和农村生活的历史学家，对档案和人文学科的倡导很感兴趣。 She is the author of many scholarly articles, as well as 代表家庭农场：1945年以来爱荷华州爱荷华州农场妇女的行动主义 (University of Iowa Press, 2013), which explores how Iowa's farm women acted to better conditions in the countryside. Her current project 美国雅典娜：在中西部边疆培育维多利亚时代的女性气质 considers how women created and maintained opportunities for education, activism, and 美高梅赌场 in the nineteenth century.