词条 | Jack E. Davis |
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Jack Emerson Davis is an author and professor of history in Florida. He teaches environmental history and sustainability studies at the University of Florida.[1] In 2002-2003, he taught on a Fulbright award at the University of Jordan in Amman, Jordan. Davis received the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for History for his book The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea.[2] He also wrote An Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century, a dual biography of Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the Florida Everglades; and Race Against Time: Culture and Separation in Natchez since 1930. With Raymond Arsenault, he edited Paradise Lost?: The Environmental History of Florida, a collection of essays on the history of the human relationship with Florida nature. His other works include The 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; and The Civil Rights Movement (2000). Davis earned a BA (1985) and MA (1989) from the University of South Florida, and a Ph.D. in 1994 from Brandeis University. Before joining the University of Florida faculty, he taught at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where he was director of environmental studies.[1] He also taught at Eckerd 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 the Florida Book Award gold medal in the nonfiction category.[3] In addition to winning a Pulitzer Prize, The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea was awarded the 2017 Kirkus Prize in nonfiction and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. The book covers the history of Gulf of Mexico from geological formation to the present (2016). Works
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References1. ^1 2 {{cite web|url=http://history.ufl.edu/directory/current-faculty/jack-e-davis/|title=Jack E. Davis|website=history.ufl.edu}} {{PulitzerPrize HistoryAuthors 2001–2025}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Davis, Jack}}2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.pulitzer.org/winners/jack-e-davis|title=Jack E. Davis|first=|last=Pulitzer Prizes|website=www.pulitzer.org|accessdate=17 August 2018}} 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://ugapress.blogspot.com/2010/02/everglades-providence-wins-florida-book.html|title=AN EVERGLADES PROVIDENCE wins Florida Book Award Gold Medal|author=Ddesjard@ugapress.uga.edu|date=26 February 2010|website=News from the University of Georgia Press|publisher=University of Georgia Press}} 6 : Living people|21st-century American historians|Brandeis University alumni|University of Florida faculty|University of Alabama at Birmingham faculty|Year of birth missing (living people) |
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