Research

Books
 
Conserving Southern Longleaf: Herbert Stoddard and the Rise of Ecological Land Management (Athens: University of Georgia Press, Environmental History and the American South Series, 2011).
 
The Art of Managing Longleaf: A Personal History of the Stoddard-Neel Approach, with Leon Neel and Paul S. Sutter (University of Georgia Press, 2010).
 

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

"The Grass Problem: Agrostrology, Agriculture, and Environmental Transformation in the New South," Environmental History (Jan. 2023).

"Agricultural History's Agroecological Turn" (with Mark D. Hersey), in A Companion to American Agricultural History, edited by R. Douglas Hurt (Wiley, 2022).

“Longleaf Pine, From Forest to Fiber: Production, Consumption, and the Cutover on Georgia’s Coastal Plain, 1865–1900,” in Coastal Culture, Coastal Nature: Environmental Histories of Coastal Georgia, edited by Paul Pressly and Paul Sutter (University of Georgia Press, 2018).
 
“The Invisible and Indeterminable Value of Ecology: From Malaria Control to Ecological Research in Southwest Georgia,” Isis 106, no. 2 (June 2015): 310–336. (Winner of the 2017 Price/Webster award from the History of Science Society for best article published in Isis over the previous three years.)
 
“‘A Cosmopolitan Weed of the World’: Following Bermudagrass,” Agricultural History 88, no. 3 (Summer 2014): 354–367.
 
“Burned to be Wild:  Herbert Stoddard and the Roots of Ecological Conservation in the Southern Longleaf Pine Forest,” Environmental History 11, no. 3 (Summer 2006): 500–526. [Reprinted in Environmental History and the American South, eds. Paul S. Sutter and Chris Manganiello (University of Georgia Press, 2009), 281–310.]
 
“The Stoddard-Neel Method:  Forestry Beyond One Generation," Forest History Today (Spring/Fall 2006): 16–23.
 
“‘A World Properly Put Together:’ Environmental Knowledge in Charles Frazier’sCold Mountain,” Southern Cultures 10, no. 4 (Winter 2004): 33–54.
 
 
Research in Progress

"Big Forest Science in the US South: A History of the Southern Research Station" (book project in progress)

"Not Naturally a Grass Country: Environment, Plant Genetics, and The Quest for Agricultural Modernization in the Humid World" (book project in progress).

"Stone Mountain: An Environmental History of the Lost Cause" (article in progress).
 
“The Politics of Hunting and Fishing in Twentieth-Century America” (article in progress).