Dr. Foster earned his Ph.D. at Mississippi State University. His specialties are in nineteenth-century Southern and Arkansas history, and his research interests include early hunting, fishing, and conservation in Arkansas. In February 2025, the University of Alabama Press will release his monograph, So Great Was the Slaughter: The End of Market Hunting, the Rise of the Sportsman, and the Birth of the Conservationist Movement in Arkansas, 1800-1925.