Contributors

Page 253 →Julian Buxton III is the founder of Buxton Books and Tour Charleston LLC and author of The Ghosts of Charleston. Julian Buxton’s grandfather masterminded Williams Furniture’s extensive land acquisition program which led to the company’s purchase by Georgia-Pacific.

Jordan E. Davis is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. His research on workers at Ferguson began in a graduate history seminar at USC when he was an MA student.

Jessica I. Elfenbein is professor of history at the University of South Carolina. She directed the prize-winning Baltimore ’68 project and is the coeditor of Baltimore ’68: Riots and Rebirth in an American City and From Mobtown to Charm City: New Perspectives on Baltimore History. She is the principal investigator for the multifaceted “Wood Basket of the World” project.

Kent B. Germany is professor of history at the University of South Carolina. He is the author of New Orleans After the Promises: Poverty, Citizenship, and the Search for the Great Society and the editor or coeditor of seven books about the once-secret presidential recordings of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.

Caroline Grego is a historian of and from South Carolina whose work lies at the nexus of the histories of labor, race and racism, and the environment. She is assistant professor of history at Queens University and author of Hurricane Jim Crow: How the Great Sea Island Storm of 1893 Shaped the Lowcountry South.

T. Robert Hart is senior lecturer of history at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. His scholarship on the environmental politics of the Santee-Cooper hydroelectric project in South Carolina earned him the Page 254 →Southern Historical Association’s Jack Temple Kirby Award. His current research interests include bottomland forests in the southeastern United States and the coastal history of the Carolinas.

Al Hester is historic sites coordinator with the South Carolina State Park Service. His work engages with each of the forty-seven South Carolina State Parks and spans a history from 1670–1970.

Maggie Kemp is a graduate student in the Department of Geography at the University of South Carolina. Her research on the CCC at Pointsett State Park began in a USC honors history class.

Mark Kinzer is a retired planner and wilderness program manager with the National Park Service. He is the author of Nature’s Return: An Environmental History of Congaree National Park.

Thomas M. Lekan is a professor of history at the University of South Carolina. He is the author of Imagining the Nation in Nature: Landscape Preservation and German Identity, 1885–1945 and Our Gigantic Zoo: A German Quest to Save the Serengeti.