I have two primary goals. First, to rework my PhD dissertation and to publish it as an anthropological monograph. Second, to secure funding for a new postdoctoral research project, hosted in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews. My proposed research project builds directly on my PhD research and is focused on the UK’s 2001 Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) outbreak and its long-term impact on the hill farming community of Cumbria. The 2001 outbreak was one of the worst on record and led to the deaths of more than six-million farm animals. The long-term impact it had on those who farmed those animals, however, was impossible to quantify. My project aims to advance our understanding of the complex social life of FMD and, through ethnographic techniques, reveal how this long past epizootic continues to have a profound effect in the present.