Peer-Reviewed Publications
"Sprawling Fields of Cotton"
The Boom and Bust of Cotton in Gwinnett
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Gwinnett County, Georgia and the Transformation
of the American South, 1818-2018
(UGA Press, 2022)
The Boom and Bust of Cotton in Gwinnett
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Gwinnett County, Georgia and the Transformation
of the American South, 1818-2018
(UGA Press, 2022)
"Taming the Wild Side of Bonaventure"
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"Constructive Not Destructive Development"
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"Poverty, Industry, and Environmental Quality"
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"Piscatorial Politics"
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Policy Reports & Whitepapers
Rooting Energy Equity in the South:
A Review of Frameworks and Metrics [forthcoming] |
Other Publications
An op-ed published in Atlanta's Saporta Report that discusses the prevalence of energy insecurity in Georgia, and what policy solutions are needed to support healthy, sustainable, and affordable housing.
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Boost Resilience During Hot Weather
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A history of the role of electric utilities in the American South, with an eye to the ways that early utilities harnessed free-flowing rivers to generate electricity.
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The Fall and Rise of Energy Conservation Codes
🙞 Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance January 9, 2020 An overview of the recent development of the 2021 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC), a significantly more energy efficient code than previous national model energy codes.
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There’s a solution to the Southeast’s water crisis. But will Georgia and Florida agree to it?
🙞 Washington Post March 8, 2018 This op-ed, which ran in the Washington Post's "Made by History" column, explores the history of the Tri-State Water Wars - a decades-long legal battle over access to the water of the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River basin now playing out between Florida, Georgia, and Alabama. The case is being considered by the U.S. Supreme Court, and this essay proposes a solution for how these states can equitably apportion the Southeast's scarce water.
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This article explores complicated history of green tourism and coastal resort development by profiling the controversial career of developer Charles Fraser. Fraser was responsible for some of the most cutting-edge "green" resorts in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s, and this article considers his role as the nation's first green developer and the complex legacies that Fraser has left for ecotourism and environmentalism in the United States.
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This op-ed reflects on the lessons that Henry Grady and other "New South" boosters can teach about sustainable development today. In the decades after the Civil War Grady and his contemporaries became preoccupied with the idea that there could be “permanent” ways of using the region’s dwindling natural resources. This op-ed explores the successes and failures of the South's search for environmental permanence and considers what this experience can tell us about the social and environmental components of sustainability in Atlanta today.
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This essay briefly explores the history of the conservation movement in the American South after 1865, The South is typically left out of histories of American conservation, but Southerners were vitally interested in applying conservation to their region. This essay considers how conservation in the South differed from the rest of the nation, to what extent conservationists succeeded, and what legacies they have left throughout the region.
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