Join us for a public lecture with Dr. Owen James Hyman, an African American Studies professor at the University of Mississippi. His dissertation, "The Cut and the Color Line: An Environmental History of Jim Crow in the Deep South's Forests," received the 2018 C. Vann Woodward Prize for the best dissertation in southern history from the Southern Historical Association. His research has been funded by fellowships from the Forest History Society, the Southern Labor Archives and the Department of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

The talk is co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of the Gulf South and the School of Coastal Resilience.