The Okefenokee: Managing Nature in America's Largest Swamp
-Rescheduled for November 9, 2020-
Savannah, GA and Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge
The Okefenokee: Managing Nature in America's Largest Swamp
Fall 2020, Date TBA
Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Improving Health through Integration with Energy-Efficiency Programs
-October 27, 2020 (1:00-2:30 PM PT)-
Session 4201.0: Promoting Health and Wellness in Affordable Housing through the Built Environment
American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Conference
A Regional Approach to Measuring and Addressing Energy Inequities
December 7-10, 2020
ACEEE Behavior, Energy, and Climate Change Conference
Coastal Development and the Roots of Global Ecotourism
-Postponed to Spring 2021, Date TBA-
Columbus State University, Columbus, GA
-Rescheduled for November 9, 2020-
Savannah, GA and Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge
The Okefenokee: Managing Nature in America's Largest Swamp
Fall 2020, Date TBA
Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Improving Health through Integration with Energy-Efficiency Programs
-October 27, 2020 (1:00-2:30 PM PT)-
Session 4201.0: Promoting Health and Wellness in Affordable Housing through the Built Environment
American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Conference
A Regional Approach to Measuring and Addressing Energy Inequities
December 7-10, 2020
ACEEE Behavior, Energy, and Climate Change Conference
Coastal Development and the Roots of Global Ecotourism
-Postponed to Spring 2021, Date TBA-
Columbus State University, Columbus, GA
INVITED TALKS
2020
Strengthening Georgia's Communities with Environmental Justice
Georgia Grassroots Environmental Network (GGEN) Quarterly Meeting, July 2020
2019
How Atlanta's Pipes Got Their Shapes: A Century-Long Evolution of Water and Sewer Infrastructure
City of Atlanta, Department of Watershed Management, Atlanta, GA
2019
Discussion of The Price of Permanence: Nature and Business in the New South
FoxTale Book Shoppe, Woodstock, GA
2019
Georgia's Waterways: The Flow of History
Institute for Georgia Environmental Leadership, Albany, GA
2018
Discussion of The Price of Permanence: Nature and Business in the New South
Decatur Book Festival, Decatur, GA
2018
Sustainability with a Southern Twang: Lessons from the South's First Attempt at Sustainable Development
The Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business/Center for Serve-Learn-Sustain
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
2018
Theodore Roosevelt and the Age of Excess
The Learning Center, Savannah, GA
2018
Discussion of The Price of Permanence: Nature and Business in the New South
Atlanta Authors Series, SUGA, Tucker, GA
2018
Georgia's Waterways: The Flow of History
Institute for Georgia Environmental Leadership
2018
Charles E. Fraser: The First Green Developer?
Discovery Lecture Series, Coastal Discovery Museum, Hilton Head Island, SC
2018
The Savannah: The Story of a River and Its City
The Learning Center, Savannah, GA
2017
Rooting Ecotourism in Southern Soil: The First Generation of 'Green' Developers
Center for the History of Agriculture, Science, and the Environment of the South (CHASES) at Mississippi State University
2017
Georgia's Waterways: The Flow of History
Institute for Georgia Environmental Leadership
2017
Hilton Head Goes to Earth Day: Protecting 'Nature's Showpiece" in the Lowcountry
Discovery Lecture Series, Coastal Discovery Museum, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
2016
A Century of America's National Parks
Seminar series for the Atlanta public hosted by the Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University
2016
Do not "uglify" the earth: Tourism and American Environmental Politics
Furman University, Greenville, SC
2015
John Muir and Wilderness in Modern Georgia
Seminar series for the Atlanta public hosted by the Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University and Georgia Humanities
2015
Constructive and not Destructive Development: The Struggle for 'Permanent' Uses of Resources in the South"
The Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Emory University
2014
Giving "Wise Use" a Southern Twang: Reshaping Conservation for a Developing Region
The University of Delaware
Strengthening Georgia's Communities with Environmental Justice
Georgia Grassroots Environmental Network (GGEN) Quarterly Meeting, July 2020
2019
How Atlanta's Pipes Got Their Shapes: A Century-Long Evolution of Water and Sewer Infrastructure
City of Atlanta, Department of Watershed Management, Atlanta, GA
2019
Discussion of The Price of Permanence: Nature and Business in the New South
FoxTale Book Shoppe, Woodstock, GA
2019
Georgia's Waterways: The Flow of History
Institute for Georgia Environmental Leadership, Albany, GA
2018
Discussion of The Price of Permanence: Nature and Business in the New South
Decatur Book Festival, Decatur, GA
2018
Sustainability with a Southern Twang: Lessons from the South's First Attempt at Sustainable Development
The Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business/Center for Serve-Learn-Sustain
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
2018
Theodore Roosevelt and the Age of Excess
The Learning Center, Savannah, GA
2018
Discussion of The Price of Permanence: Nature and Business in the New South
Atlanta Authors Series, SUGA, Tucker, GA
2018
Georgia's Waterways: The Flow of History
Institute for Georgia Environmental Leadership
2018
Charles E. Fraser: The First Green Developer?
Discovery Lecture Series, Coastal Discovery Museum, Hilton Head Island, SC
2018
The Savannah: The Story of a River and Its City
The Learning Center, Savannah, GA
2017
Rooting Ecotourism in Southern Soil: The First Generation of 'Green' Developers
Center for the History of Agriculture, Science, and the Environment of the South (CHASES) at Mississippi State University
2017
Georgia's Waterways: The Flow of History
Institute for Georgia Environmental Leadership
2017
Hilton Head Goes to Earth Day: Protecting 'Nature's Showpiece" in the Lowcountry
Discovery Lecture Series, Coastal Discovery Museum, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
2016
A Century of America's National Parks
Seminar series for the Atlanta public hosted by the Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University
2016
Do not "uglify" the earth: Tourism and American Environmental Politics
Furman University, Greenville, SC
2015
John Muir and Wilderness in Modern Georgia
Seminar series for the Atlanta public hosted by the Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University and Georgia Humanities
2015
Constructive and not Destructive Development: The Struggle for 'Permanent' Uses of Resources in the South"
The Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Emory University
2014
Giving "Wise Use" a Southern Twang: Reshaping Conservation for a Developing Region
The University of Delaware
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2019
How to Get to Zero: A Multi-State Comparison of Zero Energy Ready Homes
Getting to Zero Forum, Oakland, CA
2019
Greening Racial Justice: Lessons from a Century-Long Struggle over Atlanta’s Proctor Creek
Atlanta Studies Symposium, Atlanta, GA
2018
The Real Cost of Affordable Housing: Coping with the South's High Energy Burdens
Southern Conference on Homelessness and Housing, Orange Beach, AL
2018
The Environmental and Social Permanence of Tourism at the Height of Jim Crow
Southern Labor Studies Association, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
2018
Green Tourism and Environmental Justice on the Carolina Sea Islands
American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting, Riverside, CA
2017
Resorting to Nature?: 'Green' Developers and American Environmental Politics
American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting
2015
Manufacturing 'Permanent' Landscapes in the Developing South
Manufacturing Landscapes--Nature and Technology in Environmental History
Co-Sponsored by The Rachel Carson Center and Renmin University of China
2015
Hobby Farming Tourists and Working Rural Landscapes in the New South
Agricultural History Society Annual Meeting
2014
Corporate Conservation and Conflict: Determining the Ideal Forms of Development in the American South
Green Capitalism: Exploring the Crossroads of Environmental and Business History - Hosted by the Hagley Library and Museum, Wilmington, DE
2014
Permanent Growth and Environmental Degradation in a Developing Region
Cornell Conference on the Histories of American Capitalism - Hosted by Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2014
Building a More "Permanent" South
Symposium on Southern Environmental History - Hosted by the Center for the History of Agriculture, Science, and the Environment of the South (CHASES) at Mississippi State University
2013
Nature’s Bounty: Competing Visions of Economic Development in the New South (panel organizer)
American Historical Association Annual Meeting
2011
Touring the New South Creed: Southern Railroads as Tourist Boosters (panel co-organizer)
Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting
2011
Commentator for panel: Southern Landscapes, Southern Bodies: Freedom and the Environment
Landscapes of Freedom: Freedom Struggles During the Long Nineteenth Century - Hosted by the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center at Penn State
2010
Ecology Emotion: The Fight Against Industrial Pollution and Environmentalism in Beaufort, South Carolina, 1969-1970 (panel organizer)
American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting
2009
The Strength of the Scup Ticket: The Politics of Fishery Regulation in Rhode Island, 1870-1872
North Atlantic Fisheries History Association Annual Meeting
How to Get to Zero: A Multi-State Comparison of Zero Energy Ready Homes
Getting to Zero Forum, Oakland, CA
2019
Greening Racial Justice: Lessons from a Century-Long Struggle over Atlanta’s Proctor Creek
Atlanta Studies Symposium, Atlanta, GA
2018
The Real Cost of Affordable Housing: Coping with the South's High Energy Burdens
Southern Conference on Homelessness and Housing, Orange Beach, AL
2018
The Environmental and Social Permanence of Tourism at the Height of Jim Crow
Southern Labor Studies Association, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
2018
Green Tourism and Environmental Justice on the Carolina Sea Islands
American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting, Riverside, CA
2017
Resorting to Nature?: 'Green' Developers and American Environmental Politics
American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting
2015
Manufacturing 'Permanent' Landscapes in the Developing South
Manufacturing Landscapes--Nature and Technology in Environmental History
Co-Sponsored by The Rachel Carson Center and Renmin University of China
2015
Hobby Farming Tourists and Working Rural Landscapes in the New South
Agricultural History Society Annual Meeting
2014
Corporate Conservation and Conflict: Determining the Ideal Forms of Development in the American South
Green Capitalism: Exploring the Crossroads of Environmental and Business History - Hosted by the Hagley Library and Museum, Wilmington, DE
2014
Permanent Growth and Environmental Degradation in a Developing Region
Cornell Conference on the Histories of American Capitalism - Hosted by Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2014
Building a More "Permanent" South
Symposium on Southern Environmental History - Hosted by the Center for the History of Agriculture, Science, and the Environment of the South (CHASES) at Mississippi State University
2013
Nature’s Bounty: Competing Visions of Economic Development in the New South (panel organizer)
American Historical Association Annual Meeting
2011
Touring the New South Creed: Southern Railroads as Tourist Boosters (panel co-organizer)
Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting
2011
Commentator for panel: Southern Landscapes, Southern Bodies: Freedom and the Environment
Landscapes of Freedom: Freedom Struggles During the Long Nineteenth Century - Hosted by the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center at Penn State
2010
Ecology Emotion: The Fight Against Industrial Pollution and Environmentalism in Beaufort, South Carolina, 1969-1970 (panel organizer)
American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting
2009
The Strength of the Scup Ticket: The Politics of Fishery Regulation in Rhode Island, 1870-1872
North Atlantic Fisheries History Association Annual Meeting