Research and Teaching Interests

[Environment & Agriculture]
[U.S. South]

Dissertation

"Land of the Bright Leaf: Yellow Tobacco, Environment, and Culture along the Border of Virginia and North Carolina," supervised by Dr. Paul S. Sutter (2010)

Selected Publications

"From the Big House to the Trailer: Reflections on a Southern Landscape," Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (forthcoming)

"Fighting over Fencing: Agricultural Reform and Antebellum Efforts to Close the Virginia Open Range," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography (Summer 2009) Winner of the Theodore C. Blegen Award More Info

"Marketing a Mountain: Changing Views of Environment and Landscape on Grandfather Mountain, North Carolina," Appalachian Journal (Spring 2009) More Info

"Wormsloe's Belly: Understanding the History of a Southern Plantation through Food," Southern Cultures (forthcoming 2009)

Honors and Awards

Wormsloe Scholar in Environmental History, Wormsloe Institute of Environmental History (2008-2010)

2009 Theodore C. Blegen Award, Forest History Society, Awarded for the best article on environmental or conservation history (2010)

Andrew W. Mellon Research Fellowship, Virginia Historical Society (2009)

J. Carlyle Sitterson Visiting Scholar Grant, Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina Library (2009)

Graduate School Dean's Award, UGA Graduate School (2009)

Janelle Padgett Knight Graduate Award, Willson Center for Humanities and Arts (2009)

Graduate Student Research and Performance Grant, Willson Center for Humanities and Arts (2009)

William Jennings Bryan Award, UGA History Department (2008)

William Jennings Bryan Award, UGA History Department, Presented to a graduate student for the best history paper of the year (2008)

Graduate School Outstanding Teaching Award, UGA Graduate School (2007)

Carl Vipperman Teaching Assistant Award, UGA History Department (2006)