| BRIEF VITA
Education:
B.A. Wake Forest University, 1989; M.A., Appalachian State Univeristy,1991; Ph.D.
Louisiana State University, 1999
Awards and Honors:
Forest History Society’s 2005 Charles A.
Weyerhaeuser Book Award for the best book in forest and conservation
history for Tapping the Pines: The Naval Stores
Industry in the American South.
Historical Society of North Carolina’s
2001 R.D.W. Connor Award for the best article appearing in The North
Carolina Historical Review for “Suicidal Harvest: The Self-Destruction
of North Carolina’s Naval Stores Industry.”
Forest History Society’s 1997 Theodore
C. Blegen Award for the best article in a journal other than
Environmental History for “Slavery, Work, and the Geography of the North
Carolina Naval Stores Industry, 1835-1860.”
Notable Articles:
“Old Ways in
the New South: Persistent Labor Patterns in Georgia’s Postbellum Naval
Stores Industry,” Atlanta History, 45, no. 3 (2002): 4-24.
“Suicidal Harvest: The Self-Destruction
of North Carolina’s Naval Stores Industry,” The North Carolina Historical
Review, 78 (July 2001): 309-344.
“Slavery, Work, and the Geography of the
North Carolina Naval Stores Industry, 1835-1860,” The Journal of Southern
History, 62 (February 1996): 27-56. |
