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Jack E. Davis | |
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 Davis at the 2018 Pulitzer Prizes | |
| Born | July 13, 1956  |
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| Occupation | Historian,academic staff |
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Jack Emerson Davis is an American author and distinguished professor of history inFlorida. He holds the Rothman Family Endowed Chair in the Humanities and teachesenvironmental history and sustainability studies at theUniversity of Florida.[1] In 2002-2003, he taught on a Fulbright award at theUniversity of Jordan inAmman,Jordan.
Davis received the2018Pulitzer Prize for History for his bookThe Gulf: The Making of an American Sea.[2] He also wroteAn Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century, a dual biography ofMarjory Stoneman Douglas and theFlorida Everglades; andRace Against Time: Culture and Separation in Natchez since 1930. WithRaymond Arsenault, he editedParadise Lost?: The Environmental History of Florida, a collection of essays on the history of the human relationship with Florida nature.
Davis earned a BA (1985) and MA (1989) from theUniversity of South Florida, and a Ph.D. in 1994 fromBrandeis University. Before joining the University of Florida faculty, he taught at theUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham, where he was director of environmental studies.[1] He also taught atEckerd College.
Race Against Time: Culture and Separation in Natchez Since 1930 won the Charles S. Sydnor Prize for the best book in southern history published in 2001.[1]An Everglades Providence (2009), received theFlorida Book Award gold medal in the nonfiction category.[3] In addition to winning a Pulitzer Prize,The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea[4] was awarded the 2017Kirkus Prize in nonfiction and was a finalist for theNational Book Critics Circle Award. The book covers the history ofGulf of Mexico from geological formation to the present (2016).
His other works includeThe Wide Brim: Early Poems and Ponderings of Marjory Stoneman Douglas (2002);Making Waves: Female Activists in Twentieth-Century Florida (2003), edited by Kari Frederickson and Davis; andThe Civil Rights Movement (2000).
