Specializes in public history and the history of the U.S. South, with an emphasis on the evolution of hunting and game law after the Civil War. Her public history work includes research topics that move across southern history.
Expertise: United States History; Southern History
Research Interests
- Public History
- Southern History
- History of Sporting and Leisure
Current Projects
- Hunting and game law in the New South.
- Heirs’ property in the modern South.
- Community-engaged public history work.
I practice, study, and teach public history with special interest in museums, digital history, oral history, and community partnerships. My research focus is the post-Civil War U.S. South, but public history work moves me through time and across geographical boundaries.
My first project details the interconnection between tourism, race, labor, and land use from the late-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth-century, particularly in the Red Hills region, a forty-mile stretch of land between Thomas County, in southern Georgia, and Tallahassee, Florida.
My study engages major themes of southern historiography: the importance of tourism in the postwar economy and in national reconciliation after the war, political contestation and the centrality of land usage, the gendered dimensions of conservation, and the formation of a rural black middle class.
My next project will continue to explore the politics of land ownership and loss in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Current Projects
- Hunting and game law in the New South.
- Heirs’ property in the modern South.
- Community-engaged public history work.
