Jack E. Davis
Office: 235 Keene-Flint Hall
Phone: (352) 273-3398
Fax: (352) 392-6927
Email: davisjac@ufl.edu
Website: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/davisjac/
Mailing address:
Department of History
University of Florida
P.O. Box 117320
Gainesville, FL 32611-7320
Associate Professor Jack E. Davis received his Ph.D. in 1994 at Brandeis
University. He works with students whose interests lie in southern, civil
rights, and environmental history. He teaches graduate and undergraduate
courses in the New South and environmental history. He also teaches undergraduate
courses in Florida history and sport history. His Race Against Time:
Culture and Separation in Natchez Since 1930 was awarded the Charles
S. Sydnor Prize. He is the editor or co-editor of books on the civil rights
movement; female activism in Florida; and the environmental history of Florida.
His latest book, An Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman
Douglas and the American Environmental Century, will be published
in 2008. In addition to examining Douglas’s
eighty-year relationship with the Everglades, the book explores nature
as a historical agent in south Florida life, the feminization of nature protection,
and the state-federal nexus in environmental politics and policy.
