Curriculum Vitae

Areas of Specialization:

  • American Environmental History
  • Sustainability Studies
  • Florida History
  • Modern U.S. and U.S. South

Education:

  • 1994 Ph.D. American History. Brandeis University.
  • 1989 M.A. American History. University of South Florida.
  • 1985 B.A. Political Science. University of South Florida.

Academic Employment:

  • Rothman Family Cahir in the Humanities, January 2019-
  • Professor of History, University of Florida, August 2010-.
  • Affiliated faculty: Sustainability Studies; School of Natural Resources and the Environment; Water Institute.
  • Associate Professor of History, University of Florida, Gainesville: August 2003-2010.
  • Fulbright Associate Professor, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan, 2002-2003.
  • Associate Professor of History and Director of Environmental Studies, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL: 2001-2003.
  • Assistant Professor of History and Director of Environmental Studies, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL: 1997-2001.
  • Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator of History and American Studies, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL: June 1994-May 1997.
  • Adjunct Professor of History, The University of South Florida, Tampa and St. Petersburg,
  • FL: June 1994-1997 (summer teaching).
  • Adjunct Instructor of History, Millsaps College, Jackson, MS: Summer 1993.

Department and University Service (selected):

  • Graham Center for Public Service, director search committee, 2018-.
  • CLAS Tenure and Promotion Committee, 2015-18.
  • Chair, Department chair search committee, 2017-18.
  • Founder and faculty advisor, Alpata: A Journal of History (UF student journal), 2003-2012, 2014-,
  • Department Internet Blog, editor, 2013-.
  • Chair, department collateral search committee with AAS, Ibram Kendi, 2015.
  • Chair, department collateral search committee with AAS, Lauren Pearlman, 2015.
  • Chair, promotion committee for Dr. Steve Noll (to master lecturer), Fall 2013.
  • Chair, Full-Professor Promotion Committee, 2011-.
  • Promotion Committee for Dr. Elizabeth Dale (to full professor), Fall 2011.
  • Member, Bachelor of Arts in Sustainability Studies oversight board, CLAS committee, 2011-.
  • Commencement marshal (CLAS), spring 2004, spring 2009, spring 2011, December 2013, Spring 2015, Spring 2016.
  • Member, Samuel Proctor Florida History Lecture Series advisory committee, Bob Graham Center for Public Service, 2008-.
  • Graham Center for Public Service Curriculum Committee (CLAS), 2007-09.
  • Coordinator, Gus Burns Lecture, 2006-2009.
  • Chair (since 2009) and member, Ecology and Environment Task Force (CLAS), 2004-(dissolved).
  • Teaching mentor for graduate students: 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 1014, 2015, 2016, 2017.
  • Jack and Cecile Proctor Graduate Prize in Florida and Southern History committee, 2004-05, 08.
  • Howe Society Board of Directors, UF Special and Area Studies Collections, 2003-.
  • Untenured Faculty Evaluation Committee, 2008-09.
  • Director of Samuel Proctor Oral History Program search committee, 2007-08.
  • Department Hiring Committee, 2007-08.
  • Department Development Committee, 2007-08, 2010-.
  • Coordinator, George Pozzetta Lecture, 2006-08.
  • Undergraduate advisor, 2003-07.
  • Chair, African American Studies evaluation/search committee (department), spring 2006.
  • Graduate committee, 2003-04, 2005-06, 2017-18.
  • Lectureship search/hiring committee (department), spring 2004.
  • Richard J. Millbauer Chair in History search committee (department), 2003-04.
  • Personnel and Policy Committee (department), 2010-2011.

 Academic Service (extra-university):

  • Consultant, WGBH, American Experience, The Everglades documentary in production, 2017-.
  • Tenure and/or Promotion reviews: Harvard University, Mississippi State University, University of South Florida
  • Peer reviewer, National Landmarks Program, Marjory Stoneman Douglas House, 2015.
  • Member, editorial board, Southern Historian, 2014-.
  • Member, editorial board, Florida Historical Quarterly, 2006-.
  • Member, editorial board, Tampa Bay History, 2006-.
  • Florida Humanities Council Speakers Bureau, 2006-.
  • Member, advisory board, University Press of Kentucky, Race Relations and the Struggle for Civil Rights series, editors Steven Lawson and Cynthia Griggs Fleming, 2004-07.
  • Jurist, Florida Book Awards, 2008 and 2009.
  • Peer reviewer, Fulbright Senior Scholar Specialist Program, 2003-2006.
  • Member, editorial board, H-Florida, Internet server, h-net@msu.edu, 2003-2006.
  • External reviewer, Department of History, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida, July 2003.

Course Offerings:

Undergraduate:

  • Survey and lower-level courses:
  • United States History to 1877
  • United States History Since 1877
  • History of Sustainability *
  • Upper-division courses:
  • The History of Water (honors course)*
  • History by Nature (honors course)*
  • Ethnic History of the American South (junior seminar) *
  • Florida History (AMH 3421, AMH 3423) *
  • The Civil Rights Movement (lecture course and senior seminar)*
  • US Environmental History *
  • Florida Environmental History (senior seminar) *
  • Baby Boom American (lecture and senior seminar)*
  • Native Americans and Their Environments
  • Sport and American Culture *
  • American Myths, American Values *
  • The New South  (lecture course and senior seminar)*
  • The Old South
  • The South in Popular Culture: From Scarlett to Elvis
  • Recent US History
  • Historians’ Craft

Graduate:

  • Second-Year Seminar*
  • American Social System (University of Jordan)
  • The Civil Rights Movement *
  • U.S. History Colloquium (University of Jordan)
  • Environmental History (American *, and World)
  • Modern America (AMH 6920) *

* courses taught at UF

  • Senior Theses Directed: 8 completed

PhD and MA Committees (since 2003 only):

Chair Phd:

  • Nicole Cox, Toxic Treatment: Creosote, The Wood-Preservation Industry, and the Making of Superfund Sites, (defended 2017, fulltime administrator at Santa Fe College).
  • Ryan Thompson (with Joe Spillane, dropped program).
  • Brad Massey, (defended 2017, professor Polk State College), The Making of Industrial Tampa after World War II.
  • Leslie Poole, Female Environmental Activists in Florida (defended summer 2012, tenure-track assistant professor Rollins College).
  • Bridget Bihm-Manuel, The Age of Effluence: Waste-water and Public Policy in Twentieth-Century Florida (defended fall 2013, UF librarian).
  • Maury Wiseman, David Levy Yulee: Biography and Historical Memory (defended October 2011, adjunct professor).
  • Tom Berson, Silver Springs: The Florida Interior in the American Imagination (defended May 2011, adjunct professor).
  • Dan Simone, American Motorsports: Racing, Region, and the Environment (defended spring 2009, Curator of History at NASCAR Hall of Fame).
  • (cochair with Brian Ward) Barclay Key, Race and Restoration: Churches of Christ and the Black Freedom Struggle  (defended 2007, associate professor University of Arkansas, Little Rock).
  • Ttl defended: 7

Member Phd:

  • current (in addition to those chaired) 7
  • extradiscipline committee membership: School of Natural Resources and the Environment (1), departments of English (3) Religion (4) and Architecture (1)
  • extrauniversity committee membership: University of Alabama (defended 2005)
  • Chair MA: graduated 6
  •  Member MA: 16

Extradiscipline: School of Natural Resources and the Environment, School of Journalism

Honors, Grants, and Awards:

  • Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, 2019-2020.
  • Pulitzer Prize in History 2018, The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea (the first environmental book to win the history category).
  • Florida Senate Proclamation for the Pulitzer Prize, May 2018.
  • Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction 2017, The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea.
  • National Book Critics Circle Award, nonfiction finalist 2018, The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea.
  • Andrew Carnegie Medal of Excellence 2017, nonfiction semi-finalist, The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea.
  • (Additional national recognition for The Gulf: a New York Times Notable Book of 2017; a Washington Post Best Book of 207; an NPR Best Read of 2017; a Forbes Best Book of 2017; a Tampa Bay Times Best Book of 2017; a Kirkus Review Best Book of 2017; Chicago Review of Books, top five books in nature writing; Library Journal, top five books in science and environment.)
  • Alfred J, Hanna Award, Rollins College, 2018.
  • Matheson Museum Award for outstanding contribution to local and Florida history, 2018.
  • Eleanor Briggs Fellow, MacDowell Colony, post-residential honor.
  • MacDowell Colony residential fellowship, May 2014.
  • Florida Book Awards Honoree, Floridas Eden, Gainesville, FL, April 22, 2013.
  • Seaside Institute writer-in-residence fellowship, January 2013.
  • Charlie Award (1st place), Florida Magazine Association, best feature writing for “An Ancient Power Central to Our Lives: The History and Mystery of the Gulf of Mexico,” Forum 35 (February/March 2011).
  • Charlie Award (1st  place), Florida Magazine Association, best in-depth reporting for “An Ancient Power Central to Our Lives: The History and Mystery of the Gulf of Mexico,”  Forum 35 (February/March 2011).
  • Faculty Enhancement Opportunity Grant, fall 2011.
  • Florida Book Awards (Florida Division of Cultural Affairs), Gold Medal winner, best non-fiction book of 2009.
  • Waldo W. Neikirk Term Professor, 2009-2010.
  • Southern Association of American Letters, honored scholar 2006.
  • William Fulbright Scholar Award, 2002-2003 (University of Jordan).
    Charles S. Sydnor Award, Southern Historical Association, distinguished book in southern history published in 2001, for Race Against Time: Culture and Separation in Natchez Since 1930.
  • University of Alabama at Birmingham Graduate Faculty Research Grant, 1999-2000.
  • University of Alabama at Birmingham Graduate Faculty Research Grant, 1998-1999.
  • University of Alabama at Birmingham, Frederick W. Conner Prize in the History of Ideas, 1998, for The Struggle for History: Black and White Claims to Natchez’s Past.
  • National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Seminar, Teaching the History of the Southern Civil Rights Movement, 1865-1965, Harvard University, 1998.
  • University of Alabama at Birmingham Graduate Faculty Research Grant, 1997-1998.
  • North American Society for Sport Historians Graduate Student Essay Prize, 1991, Baseball’s Reluctant Challenge: Desegregating Major League Spring Training.
  • Irving and Rose Crown Fellowship in the History of American Civilization, Brandeis University, 1989-1994.
  • Pinellas County (FL) Historical Society Graduate Student Fellowship Prize, 1989.

Works Under Review or in Progress:

  • authored book, Bird of Paradox: How the Bald Eagle Saved the Soul of America, signed contract January 2018 contract with Liveright/W.W. Norton, submission date Fall 2020.
  • Co-edited book (with Leslie Poole), The Wild Heart of Florida, 2nd edition, signed contract March 2018 with UPF, submission date July 2019.
  • Forward, to Jordan Fisher Smith, Engineering Eden: The True Story of a Violent Death, a Trial, and the Fight Over Controlling Nature (submitted and accepted).
  • Marjory Stoneman Douglas and a Sense of Place, Forum (submitted and accepted).

Books, Sole Author:

  • The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea (Liveright/W. W. Norton, 2017).
  • An Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century (Environmental History and the American South Series: University of Georgia Press, 2009, paperback 2011).
  • Race Against Time: Culture and Separation in Natchez since 1930 (Louisiana State University Press, 2001, paperback 2004).

Books, Co-authored:

  • With Lorraine Redd Allen, Only in Mississippi: A Guide for the Adventurous Traveler (Quail Ridge Press, 1997), 112pp (not peer reviewed).

Books, Edited:

  • Co-editor, with Leslie K. Poole, The Wild Heart of Florida 2nd edition (submitted to the University Press of Florida August 2019)
  • Co-editor, with Raymond Arsenault, Paradise Lost? The History of Florida Environmental (University Press of Florida, 2005) author of introduction and two essays.
  • Co-editor, with Kari Frederickson, Making Waves: Female Activists in Twentieth-Century Florida (University Press of Florida, 2003) sole author of introduction and one essay.
  • Editor, The Wide Brim: Early Poems and Ponderings of Marjory Stoneman Douglas (University Press of Florida, 2002).
  • Editor, The Civil Rights Movement (Blackwell Publishers, 2000).

Book Chapters and Essays:

  • Florida by Nature: A Survey of Extra-Human Historical Agency, The New History of Florida, Michael Gannon ed. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2014).
  • Alligators and Plume Birds: The Despoliation of Floridas Living Aesthetic, Paradise Lost? The Environmental History of Florida, Jack E. Davis and Raymond Arsenault eds. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005), 235-259.
  • Conservation is now a Dead Word: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the Transformation of American Environmentalism, Paradise Lost? The Environmental History of Florida, Jack E. Davis and Raymond Arsenault eds., (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005), 297-325 (reprint of Environmental History article listed below).
  • Up from the Sawgrass: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the Influence of Female Activism in Florida Conservation, Making Waves: Female Activists in Twentieth-Century Florida, Jack E. Davis and Kari Frederickson eds. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003), 147-176.
  • Baseballs Reluctant Challenge: Desegregating Major League Spring Training Sites, 1961-64, The Sporting World of the Modern South, Patrick B. Miller ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002), 200-18 (reprint of Journal of Sport History article listed below).
  • Baseballs Reluctant Challenge: Desegregating Major League Spring Training Sites, 1961-64, The Civil Rights Movement, Jack E. Davis ed. (London: Blackwell Publishers, 2000), 178-92 (reprint of Journal of Sport History article listed below).
  • New Left, Revisionist, In-Your-Face History: Oliver Stone’s Born on the Fourth of July Experience, Oliver Stone’s USA: Film, History, and Controversy, Robert Brent Toplin ed. (University Press of Kansas, 2000), 135-48 (reprint of Film and History article listed below).

Refereed Journal Publications:

  • Booms, Blooms, and Doom: The Life and Death of the Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone, The Alabama Historical Review 70 (April 2017)156-70.
  • Sharp Prose for Green: John D. MacDonald and the First Ecological Novel, Florida Historical Quarterly 87 (Spring 2009): 484-508.
  •  ‘Conservation is Now a Dead Word’: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the Transformation of American Environmentalism, Environmental History 8 (January 2003): 53-76.
  • Green Awakening: Social Activism and the Evolution of Marjory Stoneman Douglas’s Environmental Consciousness, The Florida Historical Quarterly 80 (October 2001): 43-77.
  •  The Struggle for Public History: Black and White Claims to Natchez’s Past, The Public Historian 22 (Winter 2000): 45-63.
  •  New Left, Revisionist, In-Your-Face History: Oliver Stone’s Born on the Fourth of July Experience,  Film and History 28 (October 1998): 6-17.
  •  Changing Places: Slave Movement in the South,  The Historian 55 (Summer 1993): 657-76.
  •  Baseball’s Reluctant Challenge: Desegregating Major League Spring Training Sites, 1960-1963,  The Journal of Sport History 20 (Fall 1992): 144-62.
  •  ‘Whitewash’ in Florida: The Lynching of Jesse James Payne and Its Aftermath,
  • The Florida Historical Quarterly 63 (January 1990): 277-98.

Non-Refereed Publications:

  • The Bald Eagle Gets Federal Protection, Time (June 28, 2018).
  • An Untamed Island Meets Its Match, New York Times, June 27, 2017.
  • article, Five Great Gulf-Set Beach Reads, Garden & Gun (June/July 2017)
  • Natural Florida: The Awareness of an Idea, Floridas Golden Age: 1880-1930, Maurice OSullivan and Bruce Stephenson eds. (Cocoa, FL: Florida Historical Society Press, 2017), 57-66.
  • Race in Textbooks, The Encyclopedia of Mississippi (University Press of Mississippi, May 2017).
  • Stone by Stone, Orion (March/April 2017).
  • “An Ancient Power Central to Our Lives: The History and Mystery of the Gulf of Mexico,” Forum 35 (February/March 2011):  17-20.
  • River of Grass, Forum 33 (Fall 2009): 24-26.
  • Paradise Lost: Reflections on Floridas Environmental History, Selected Annual Proceeding of Florida Conference of Historians 1 (March 2008): 41-50.
  • Biscayne National Monument and Florida Panther, The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 8: Environment. Martin Melosi ed. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007), 197-99, 218-20.
  • Conchs, The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 6: Ethnicity, Celeste Ray, ed. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007), 130-31.
  •  Florida History from Transnational Perspectives: Commentary, Florida Historical Quarterly (Special H-Florida Issue)84 (Summer 2005), 123-31.
  •   Environment: Pilfering Wildlife, Forum (Fall 2003): 26-29.
  •  Florida Wetlands, Favorite Florida Places feature, Forum (Summer 2003): 6-7.
  •  The Haunted Everglades: A ‘Swamp’ Becomes a Treasure,  Forum (Summer 2002): 40-43.
  •  A Culture of Vengeance, The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education (Summer 2001), 19-20.
  •   Making the Cut: Racial Discrimination in Major League Spring Training, Journeys for the Junior Historian 3 (Spring/Summer 1993): 12-17.
  • Henderson v. U.S. Interstate Commerce Commission and Southern Railway, Holmes v. Danner, Keyes v. School District No.1, Denver, Colorado, NAACP v. St. Louis-San Francisco Railroad, and Schware v. Board of Bar Examiners of New Mexico,  Encyclopedia of African-American Civil Rights: From Emancipation to the Present, Charles D. Lowery and John F. Marszalek eds. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1992), 252-53, 260-61, 297-98, 379-80, 466-67.
  • Spirits of St. Petersburg: The Struggle for Local Prohibition,  Tampa Bay History 10 (Spring 1987): 19-33.

Miscellaneous Publications, including Op-Eds:

  • Marjory Stoneman Douglas Would be Proud of These Kids, Tampa Bay Times, February 22, 2018 (reprinted in Miami Herald).
  • Lousy Water, Lousy Press for Florida, Tampa Bay Times, March 27, 2013.
  • Keep Government out of College Classrooms, St. Petersburg Times, October 19, 2011.
  • “Florida’s Beauty at Risk,” St. Petersburg Times, March 28, 2011.
  • “Treat the Gulf Right and It Will Return the Favor,” Tallahassee Democrat, September 7, 2010.
  • Only Nature Can Restore Everglades, St. Peterburg Times, March 19, 2010.
  • Why Florida Needs a Stronger Clean Water Act, with Sarah Bucci, Gainesville Sun, February 20, 2010; reprinted in Ocala Star Banner, February 21, 2010.
  • John D. MacDonald and the Roots of Hometown Democracy, Florida Thinks, February 2010.
  • A Sweeter Road to Recovery, Orlando Sentinel, July 8, 2008, A7.
  • Green Roots for Florida GOP, Orlando Sentinel, May 25, 2008, A21.
  • Earth Days Florida Legacy, Orlando Sentinel, April 20, 2008, A19.
  • UF Hiring Mike Haridopolos–How Galling,  Orlando Sentinel, February 29, 2008, A20.
  •  Masterpiece on the Environment,  Miami Herald, November 11, 2007, 5L.
  •  Everglades’ Lesson at 60,  Orlando Sentinel, December 23, 2007, A17.
  • Home Sweet Coconut Grove Home, Orlando Sentinel, January 7, 2007, A21.
  • Florida’s Lumber Camps were Supported by Convict Leasing, Gainesville Sun, June 27, 2005, A5.
  • Blanton Conviction Does not Mean Justice, Birmingham News, May 6, 2001, C3.
  • Society and Baseball Scored a Double Play for Equality, St. Petersburg Times, April 30, 1997, Neighborhood Times, 2.

Book and Film Reviews:

  • Agricultural History, spring 2015.
  • American Historical Review, October 2001, December 2002, April 2006, December 2012, June 2016.
  • American Studies, Spring 2004
  • Chicago Tribune, forthcoming.
  • The Birmingham Post-Herald, May 2001
  • Environment and History, November 2015.
  • Environmental History, October 2009, April 2011.
  • The Florida Historical Quarterly, spring 2012, spring 2011, spring 2001, summer 2000, winter 2000, Fall 1999, winter 1998, summer 1997, summer, 1996, summer 1995
  • Forum, December 2002
  • The Georgia Historical Quarterly, winter 2001, Spring 2002
  • Gulf Coast Historical Review, Summer 2002
  • H-Net: Florida, May 2004
  • H-Net: History, November 2010
  • The Journal of American History, December 1998, December 1997, June 2004, December 2005, June 2007, December 2012
  • The Journal of Southern History, May 1999, November 1996, August 2010
  • Tampa Bay History, fall/winter 1995
  • Tampa Bay Times, May 2016, April 2017.
  • The Tampa Tribune, August 1995

Manuscript Reviews:

Books for:

  • Blackwell Publishers
  • Routlege
  • University of Georgia Press (2)
  • University Press of Florida (8)

Articles for:

  • Agricultural History
  • American Historical Review
  • Environmental History (2)
  • The Florida Historical Quarterly (4)
  • Journal of American History
  • The Journal of Southern History (4)
  • The Southern Historian

Invited or Keynote Speaker at Public Events and Academic Institutions:

(listed below individually thru March 2017 only; 70-plus additional public talks(not listed here) from April 2017-.)

  • The Gulf of Mexico, Elsie Quirk Library, Charlotte County, February 8, 2017
  • The Gulf of Mexico, Englewood Public Library, February 8, 2017
  • Conservation if a Dead Word, Oak Hammock, Gville, October 4, 2016
  • Writers Forum, Matheson Museum, May 19, 2017
  • The Gulf of Mexico, Captiva Historical Society, Captiva, April 21, 2017
  • The Gulf of Mexico, Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation, Sanibel, April 21, 2016
  • Florida Environmental History, The Emerson Center, Vero Beach, April 14, 2017
  • The Gulf of Mexico, FHC Teachers Workshop, St. Petersburg, April 8, 2017
  • Speaker, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico, Captiva Island Historical Society, April 22, 2016.
  • Speaker, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico, Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation, April 22, 2016.
  • Speaker, Paradise Lost?, Unitarian Universalist Church, Vero Beach, FL, April 14, 2016.
  • Keynote, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico, Florida Humanities Council Teachers Workshop, St. Petersburg, April 8, 2016.
  • Speaker/panelist, Nature Art and Florida, Harn Museum, UF, March 21, 2016.
  • Speaker, Marjory Stoneman Douglas: A Life with the Everglades, Lake Wales Public Library, FL, March 3, 2016.
  • Keynote, Natures Dozen, Audubon of the Western Everglades annual meeting, Fort Myers, February 11, 2016.
  • Keynote, Majory Stoneman Douglas: A Life with the Everglades, Conservancy of Southwest Florida, annual meeting, Naples, FL, January 12, 2016.
  • Keynote, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico, Florida Humanities Council Florida Gathering, Apalachicola, FL, November 13, 2015.
  • Speaker, Paradise Lost?, Trout Lake Nature Center, Eustis, FL, October 16, 2015.
  • Speaker, Rivers Run to It, Citrus County Historical Museum, FL, September 24, 2015.
  • Speaker, Natures Dozen, Public Library, Leesburg, FL, March 3, 2015.
  • Speaker, Paradise Lost? Estero Historical Society, Estero, FL, February 9, 2015.
  • Speaker, Natures Dozen, Public Library, Wildwood, FL, January 20, 2015.
  • Speaker, Natuers Dozen, Rookery Bay Club, Naples, FL, December 2, 1014.
  • Keynote, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico, Florida Humanities Council Florida Gathering, Apalachicola, FL, March 21, 2014.
  • Speaker, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico, Friends of the Lower Suwannee River, February 22, 2014.
  • Speaker, Gulf: The Making of an American Sea, Walton County (Florida) Arts Alliance, Sandestin, FL, August 28, 2013.
  • Speaker, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico, Gathering, Florida Humanities Council, Cedar Key, FL, March 15, 2013.
  • Speaker, Natures Dozen: Key Moments in Floridas Environmental History, Brevard County Libraries, Palm Bay, FL, February 17, 2013.
  • Speaker, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, St. Johns Chapter of the Sierra Club, Gainesville, FL, February 7, 2013.
  • Speaker, Gulf: The Making of an American Sea, Seaside community, Seaside, FL, January 17, 2013.
  • Speaker, Natures Dozen: Key Moments in Floridas Environmental History, Florida Association of Environmental Professionals, Pensacola, FL, September 21, 2012.
  • Speaker, Taking Wisdom from the Gulf of Mexico, Old Courthouse Historical Society, Inverness, FL, January 12, 2012.
  • Speaker, Taking Wisdom from the Gulf of Mexico, Ormond Beach Historical Society, Ormond Beach, FL, March 31, 2012.
  • Speaker, Marjory Stoneman Douglas: An Activists Life, Niceville Public Library, Niceville, FL, March 28, 2011.
  • Speaker, A Bakers Dozen: Key Moment in Floridas Environmental History, University of Florida, Community Campus Council Breakfast Series, Gainesville, FL, November 9, 2011.
  • Speaker, Marjory Stoneman Douglas: A Life, The Cummer Museum of Art And Gardens, Jacksonville, FL, November 8, 2011.
  • Speaker, A Bakers Dozen: Key Moments in Floridas Environmental History, Dunnellon Public Library, Dunnellon, FL, November 5, 2011.
  • Speaker, Marjory Stoneman Douglas: A Life, Literary Society of Northern Trust, Fort Meyers, FL, April 19, 2011.
  • Speaker, Taking Wisdom, not Oil, From the Gulf of Mexico: History and Hope for the Next Generation , Florida State Library, Tallahassee, FL, January 20, 2011.
  • Speaker, Marjory Stoneman Douglas: History and Science in Environmental Activism, Tallahassee Scientific Society, Tallahassee, FL, January 19, 2011.
  • Speaker, A Bakers Dozen: Key Moments in Floridas Environmental History, University of Florida Family Weekend, October 23, 2010.
  • Keynote, Taking Wisdom, not Oil, From the Gulf of Mexico: History and Hope for the Next Generation, Florida Audubon Society Annual Meeting, St. Petersburg, FL, October 22, 2010.
  • Speaker, Marjory Stoneman Douglas: A Life, Pinellas County Historical Society, Dunedin, FL, April 12, 2010.
  • Speaker, Florida Artists, Oak Hammock, Gainesville, FL, February 17, 2010.
  • Speaker, Marjory Stoneman Douglas: A Life, Friends of the University of Miami Library, Miami, FL, January 21, 2010.
  • Speaker, Marjory Stoneman Douglas: A Life, Central Florida Sierra Club, Orlando, FL, January 20, 2010.
  • Speaker, An Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century, Miami Book Fair, Miami, FL, November 14, 2009.
  • Speaker, An Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century, St. Petersburg Times Reading Festival, St. Petersburg, FL, October 24, 2009.
  • Speaker, Marjory Stoneman Douglas: A Life, Tampa Bay History Center, Tampa, FL, September 27, 2009.
  • Speaker, Paradise Lost?: Reflections on Floridas Environmental History, Matheson, Museum, Gainesville, FL, April 23, 2009. Keynote Speaker, Research, Writing, and Publishing, Society of Florida Archivists, Gainesville, FL, April 21, 2009.Marjory Stoneman Douglas Annual Lecture, From Severance Green to Everglades Veld: The Environmental Education of Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Wellesley College, April 7, 2009.Keynote speaker, Marjory Stoneman Douglas: A Life, Friends of the Everglades Annual Meeting, Coconut Grove, FL, April 5, 2009.Speaker, An Everglades Providence, Samuel Proctor Florida History Lecture Series, UF, February 25, 2009.
  • Keynote speaker, Marjory Stoneman Douglas: A Life, Marjory Stoneman Douglas Annual Festival, Everglades City, FL, February 23, 2009.
  • Speaker, An Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century, Goerings Book Store, Gainesville, FL, Gainesville, FL, February 18, 2009.
  • Speaker, Early Warnings: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the Growth of South Florida, Indian River Shores Community Center, Indian River Shores, FL, February 11, 2009.
  • Speaker, Paradise Lost? Reflections on Floridas Environmental History, Oak Hammock Speaker Series, Gainesville, FL, November 20, 2008.
  • Speaker/panelist, The Everglades Environment, Florida Humanities Council Gathering, Everglades City, FL, November 7, 2008.
  • Keynote speaker, Marjory Stoneman Douglas and Womens Role in the Environmental Movement, Friends of Susan B. Anthony annual banquet, Gainesville, August 23, 2008.
  • Speaker, Paradise Lost?: Reflections on Floridas Environmental History, Ortona Public Library, Ortona, FL, February 12, 2008.
  • Speaker, Paradise Lost?: Reflections on Floridas Environmental History, Indian River Shores Community Center, Indian River, FL, November 13, 2007.
  • Speaker, Paradise Lost?: Reflections on Floridas Environmental History, American Association of University Women, Gainesville chapter, May 17, 2007.
  • Keynote speaker, Paradise Lost?: Reflections on Floridas Environmental History, Stetson University Earth Day Celebration, April 21, 2007.
  • Speaker, Paradise Lost?: Reflections on Floridas Environmental History, Weedon Island Preserve, St. Petersburg, FL, April 13, 2007.
  • Speaker, Conservation is Now a Dead Word: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the Evolving Idea of Everglades National Park, Homestead Womens Club, Homestead, FL, March 5, 2007.
  • Speaker, Paradise Lost?: Reflections on Floridas Environmental History, Everglades City Museum, Everglades City, FL, February 23, 2007.
  • Speaker, Paradise Lost?: Reflections on Floridas Environmental History, Largo Public Library, Largo, FL, February 15, 2007.
  • Speaker, Paradise Lost?: Reflections on Floridas Environmental History, Brooker Creek Preserve, Tarpon Springs, FL, February 10, 2007.
  • Speaker, Paradise Lost?: Reflections on Floridas Environmental History, Deltona Public Library, Deltona, FL, January 9, 2007.
  • Speaker, Paradise Lost? Reflections on Floridas Environmental History, UF Alumni Association event, Gainesville, December 14, 2006.
  • Keynote speaker, Paradise Lost? Reflections on Floridas Environmental History, Florida Sierra Club Annual Meeting, Groveland, FL, November 11, 2006.
  • Speaker/panelist, How to Control Growth in Florida, Vero Beach Book Festival, Vero Beach, FL, November 11, 2006.
  • Speaker, Paradise Lost?: Reflections on Floridas Environmental History, Alachua County Public Library, Archer, FL, November 5, 2006.
  • Speaker, Paradise Lost?: Reflections on Floridas Environmental History, Stuart Public Library, Stuart, FL, October 26, 2006.
  • Keynote speaker, Paradise Lost? Reflections on Floridas Environmental History, Florida Humanities Council, Florida Gathering, Cedar Key, FL, October 14, 2006.
  • Keynote speaker, Paradise Lost? Reflections on Floridas Environmental History, Florida Humanities Council Board Meeting, Cedar Key, FL, October 6, 2006.
  • Speaker, Paradise Lost?: Reflections on Floridas Environmental History, Valpariso Community Library, FL, September 28, 2006.
  • Keynote speaker, Paradise Lost? Reflections on Floridas Environmental History, Florida Nature Conservancy, St. Pete Beach, FL, September 13, 2006.
  • Speaker, Marjory Stoneman Douglas: A Life, Oak Hammock Speakers Series, Gainesville, FL, October 26, 2005.
  • Speaker, Diversity and Florida’s Changing Demographics, Florida Progress Corporation, Council on Diversity, Tampa Bay Holocaust Museum, St. Petersburg, FL, July 12, 2002.
  • Speaker, Jews and American Sports, Southern Jewish Film Festival, Montgomery, AL, October 28, 2001, Mobile, AL, November 5, 2001.
  • Panel discussant, First Anniversary, Rosa Parks Museum, Montgomery, AL, December 1, 2001.
  • Speaker, Twentieth-Century America,  New Horizons at UAB, Birmingham, AL, February 16, 2001.
  • Speaker, Marjory Stoneman Douglas: A Life, Harry Schaleman Honors Colloquium Lecturer, University of South Florida, April 13, 2000.

Professional Conference Papers and Participation:

  • Booms, Blooms, and Doom: The Life of the Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone, Symposium on Southern Environmental History, Auburn University, March 8, 2017.
  • Natural Florida: The Awareness of an Idea, Colloquy on Floridas Golden Age, Rollins College, February 10, 2017.
  • Words and Water, The Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts annual conference, Dallas, TX, October 11, 2014.
  • The Environmental Sensibilities in the Work of Zora Neale Hurston, Zora Neale Hurston Conference, UF, October 26, 2012.
  • Commentator, John Nolen and Aldo Leopold: Progenitors of Urban Sustainability in Florida and Wisconsin, American Society for Environmental History, March, 2012.
  • A Home! A Home! Where the Pelican Roam–and Steal: Fish, Birds, and the Idea of Manifest Destiny on the Gulf of Mexico, American Society for Environmental History, March 2012.
  • Panelist, An Authors Forum on Water, Public Interest Environmental Conference, Levin School of Law, University of Florida, February 24, 2012.
  • “The Pelican Beef:  Fish, Birds, and the Idea of Manifest Destiny on the Gulf of Mexico,” Southern Forum on Agricultural, Rural, and Environmental History,” April 9, 2011.
  • Chair, “A Conversation with the Honorable Buddy MacKay,” Public Interest Environmental Conference, Levin School of Law, University of Florida, February 24, 2011.
  • Chair, The Ripple Effect: Case Studies of Law and Local Leadership, Public Interest Environmental Conference, Levin School of Law, University of Florida, February 19, 2010.
  • Chair, Southern Environmental History, Southern Historical Association, November 2009 (comments read by Elizabeth Blum).
  • Conservation: A Word, Public Interest Environmental Conference, Levin School of Law, February 2009.
  • Shifting Sands: The South in the 1930s, Hickory Hill Forum, Watson-Brown Foundation, November 2008.
  •  The Novelists Place: John D. MacDonald and the First Ecological Novel, Florida Historical Society, May 2008
  •  Of Braudel and Odum: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the Idea of Nature as Historical Agent, Florida Historical Society, May 2008
  •  Lines on A Map: Contemplating Environmental History as State History, American Association for Environmental History Annual Conference, 2006.
  • Commentator, New Approaches to State and Local History: Florida from a Global Perspective, Southern Historical Association Annual Conference, 2004.
  • Chair, Playing Games: Sports, Race, and Desegregation, The Civil Rights Movement in Florida, June 2004.
  • Commentator, Transforming Southern Tourism: Black Struggles for Cultural Self-Representation, Southern Historical Association Annual Conference, 2003.
  • Chair and commentator, The Southern Regional Council and the Civil Rights Movement conference, University of Florida, October 2003.
  • Chair, Teaching Florida History with the Internet, Florida Historical Society Annual Conference, 2003.
  •  Basements, Attics, and Front Porches: Hidden History of Natchez, Natchez History Biennial Conference, 2002.
  •  Race Against Time, Black Studies in the New Millennium, University of Alabama at Birmingham, March 1-2, 2001.
  •  Writing the Way: The Environmental Activism of Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American Women Nature Writers, Castleton State College, June 9-11, 2000.
  • Program Chair and Organizer, Southeastern Regional Conference of Phi Alpha Theta Chapters, Birmingham, AL, April 29, 2000.
  •  Jews, White Gentiles, and Class Society in Natchez, The Jewish Experience in the Southern Americas, Tulane University, April 7-9, 2000.
  •  The Struggle for History: Black and White Claims to Natchez’s Past, Plantations of the Mind: Marketing Myths and Memories in the Heritage Tourism Industry, College of Charleston, April 6-8, 2000.
  •  Twilight Beginnings: The Environmental Activism of Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American Society of Environmental Historians Annual Conference, 2000.
  • Session chair, American History, Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society Annual Conference, 1999.
  •  Beyond the Sawgrass: The Social Activism of Marjory Stoneman Douglas,  Florida Historical Society Annual Conference, 1999.
  • Commentator, Interpreting Birmingham’s Civil Rights Struggle, Southern Historical Association Annual Conference, 1998.
  • Commentator, Segregationists: Moderates and Extremists, Gulf South History and Humanities Annual Conference, 1998.
  •  From Boosterism to Big Business: Spring Training in Florida, Florida Historical Society Annual Conference, 1998.
  •  The Struggle for History: Black and White Claims to Natchez’s Past, Natchez History (Biennial) Conference, 1998.
  •  ‘Oh Lord, What Have I Done to Deserve This?’ Klan Violence and the Social Division of Labor in Southwest Mississippi, 1963-1968, American Historical Association Annual Conference, 1995.
  •  Pilgrimage to the Past: History and the Mythic World of Natchez, Southern Historical Association Annual Conference, 1994.
  • Session chair, Vanishing Florida,  Florida Historical Association Annual Conference, 1993.
  •  Baseball’s Reluctant Challenge, North American Society for Sport Historians Annual Conference, 1991.
  •  Unwelcomed Visitors, Florida Historical Society Annual Conference, 1991.
  •  The Lynching of Jesse James Payne, Florida Historical Society Annual Conference, 1990.

Local Community Activities:

  • Guest speaker on Calusa of Florida, Expressions Arts Academy, Gainesville, FL, May 12, 2013.
  • Guest speaker on Florida history and college education, Emerald Coast Middle School, Walton County FL, January 29, 2013.
  • Guest speaker on Florida history and college education, Seaside School, Seaside, FL, January 22, 2013.
  • Docent educator, The Social Activism of Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Docent Training Program, Heritage Village, Largo, FL, Ocotber 16, 2000.
  • Scholar-advisor, Play Ball: The Cultural Arts Celebrate Major League Baseball in Pinellas County, historical exhibition, Heritage Village, Pinellas County, FL, February-April 1998.
  • Scholar-advisor, St. Petersburg Goes to War, historical exhibition, St. Petersburg Museum of History, St. Petersburg, FL, 1995.
  • Lecturer, Eckerd College Elderhostel, Spring 1994, 1995, The History of Florida Spring Training   Brains, Bodies, and Fitness   History of American Sport
  • Docent educator, Subduing Florida: Its Environmental History,  Docent Training Program, Heritage Village, Largo, FL, October 11, 1995.
  • Author, Intruder in Their Midst: A Brief History of the Human Impact on Florida Seabirds, handout, Pinellas Seabird Rehabilitation Center, St. Petersburg, FL, 1995.
  • Panel participant, Reflections on Florida Civil Rights, The University of South Florida Lecture Series, Florida: A Sunshine State of Mind,  Spring 1995.
  • Television presentation, Unwelcomed Visitors,  Pinellas Past, Pinellas County, Florida, July 1990.
  • Television presentation, Spirits of St. Petersburg,  Pinellas Past, Pinellas County, Florida, June 1989.

Media Activity (quote in or on):

(Approximately four dozen print and media interviews from March 2017 to July 2018).

  • Alabama Public Radio, April 17, 2001.
  • Australian Broadcasting Corporation, May 18, 2000.
  • Birmingham Post-Herald, May 1, 2001, May 18, 200.
  • British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), April 17, 2001, September 14, 2005, June26, 2008..
  • BS National Radio News, April 22, 2000.
  • Christian Science Monitor, April 20, 2001, July 13, 2001; June 23, 2005.
  • The Florida Dream (Florida Humanities Council and WEDU Documentary) (broadcast on Florida PBS affiliates Fall 2007).
  • Florida Humanities Council Radio (broadcast on Florida NPR affiliate stations) as least a dozen interviews between June 2002 and March 2009.
  • (Jacksonville) Florida Times-Union, August 28, 2005.
  • Gainesville Sun, November 1, 2004; September 3, 2005; February 11, 16, 2009; September 9, 2013.
  • Miami Herald, April 4, 2002.
  • Natchez Democrat, May 29, 2004; June 8, 2004.
  • Newsday, May 19, 2000.
  • New York Times, May 12, 2002; September 13, 2002; October 30, 2002; December 16, 2004.
  • Orlando Sentinel, December 14, 2003; February 28, 2008; April 7, 2008.
  • Philadelphia Inquirer, May 9, 2002.
  • The Tampa Tribune, April 4, 1998.
  • St. Petersburg Times, August 21, 2006, June 28, 2009, April 10, 2011.
  • USA Today, May 19, 2000.
  • Voice of America, April 16, 2001.
  • WAPI, Birmingham, Alabama, April 18, 2001.
  • WUFT, Connor Calling, February 20, 2009.
  • WUSF Public Radio, Tampa, Florida, April 19, 1998, March 17, 2004.
  • WVAS 90.7, Montgomery, Alabama, May 25, 2000.
  • WVTM Channel 13 NBC, Birmingham, Alabama, May 17, 2000.

Other Community Service:

  • Board of trustees, Historic Harrisville, Incorporated, Harrisville, New Hampshire, 2009-.
  • Board of directors member, Alachua County Historic Trust, Matheson Museum, Gainesville, FL, 2006-2011.
  • Board member, American Civil Liberties Union, St. Petersburg, Florida, Chapter, 1994-1997.
  • Volunteer, Pinellas Seabird Rehabilitation Center, St. Petersburg, FL, 1994-1997.

Professional Affiliations:

  • American Historical Association
  • American Society for Environmental History
  • Florida Historical Society
  • Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society
  • Southern Historical Association

Addendum:

Forthcoming public talks currently scheduled for fall 2018 and winter 2019

  • 8-11, 5:30pm, Prouts Neck, 47 Winslow Homer Road, Prouts Neck, Maine
  • 8-13, 7pm, Harvard Book Store, Cambridge, Mass
  • 8-18, Mississippi Book Festival, Jackson (time TBD)
  • 8-21 Polk City Hist Center, Florida, 12:15 PM
  • 8-30 Alachua County Library, Newberry, Florida, 6pm
  • 9-12, 10am Gulf States Land Conservation Conference, New Orleans, keynote
  • 9-27, 7 pm, Florida Humanities Council forum, St. Petersburg, USFSP
  • 9-29, 11:00am, Walter Anderson Day, Ocean Springs, MS, community center
  • 10-1, Joint Institute for Gulf of Mexico Marine Studies, USFSP, inaugural address (time TBD)
  • 10-3, 5pm, Distinguished Lecture Series, Rollins College, Orlando
  • 10-4, 12pm, Books & Books Prologue Lunch, Coral Gables Country Club, presentation (private)
  •  6pm, UF Coral Gables Alumni Meet and Greet
  •  8pm, Books & Books, Coral Gables, FL
  • 10-5, 5pm, Books & Books, Key West
  • 10-10, 9:30 am, Retired UF Faculty, Harn Museum, Gainesville, FL
  • 10-11, 5:30pm Florida Birding and Nature Festival, keynote, Tampa Bay History Center (time TBD)
  • 10-12, 9:30am National Audubon Society board meeting, New Orleans
  • 10-17, 6pm CT, One Book, One Pass selection, Pass Christian, MS
  • 10-18, 11:30am, Spring Hill College, Mobile, AL
  •  6:00pm, Page & Palette Books, Fairhope, AL, One Town One Tale selection
  • 10-25, 4pm, Oak Hammock, Gainesville, FL
  • 11-10, Louisiana Book Festival, Baton Rouge (time and venue TBD)
  • 11-17, Tampa Bay Times Reading Festival (time and venue TBD)
  • 11-18, Miami Book Fair (time and venue TBD)
  • 12-10, 10 am Regency Oaks, Clearwater
  •  2 pm Dunedin Public Library
  • 12-12, 6pm Alachua Conservation Trust, Gainesville
  • 12-13, 7pm, Bonita Springs Historical Society
  • 1-10-11, Louisiana State University, Carl O. Sauer Lecture (time TBD)
  • 1-17, Jemison Visiting Professor Lecture, University of Alabama at Birmingham (time TBD)
  • 1-26, 11 am, Sunshine Book Festival, Gainesville
  • 1-29, 5:20 pm, Winter Haven Public Library
  • 2-4, Northwest Florida State College, Niceville, FL (time TBD)
  • 2-5, Pensacola State College, Pensacola, FL (time TBD)
  • 2-13, 1:30 pm, The Society of the Four Seasons, Palm Beach, FL
  • 2-19, Shell Museum, Sanibel Island (time TBD)
  • 2-27, 6:30 pm, Unitarian Universalist Church, Naples, FL
  • 3-9, Useppa Island Historical Museum, Useppa Island (time TBD)
  • 3-19, Brandeis University Distinguished Alumni Lecture (time and venue TBD)
  • 4-2, 7 pm, Marco Island Historical Society, Marco Island, FL
  • 4-11, 6 pm, Lake Wales Public Library, FL
  • 4-13, Word of the South, Tallahassee, FL (venue and time TBD
  • 4-18, Beaches Museum, Jacksonville, FL (time TBD)
  • Fall 2019, George Littlefield Lecturer in Southern History, University of Texas, Austin (date TBD)
  • Spring 2020, Texas A&M Corpus Christi (time and venue TBD)