Biography
Graduated in May 2017 with PhD in U.S. History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; dissertation on the longleaf pine forests of the American South; currently a visiting lecturer in U.S. History at UNC, with focus on histories of the U.S., the environment, the American South, and the practice of oral history.
Research
The project involved researching the history of how people perceived, used, and changed the longleaf pine forests over time, across the coastal plains of the South. It involved archival research in several collections in the South, including a number of collections in Louisiana State University Libraries, as well as the records of the Louisiana Central Longleaf Company, which are held by the State Historical Society of Missouri.
