Areas of Expertise

• United States since 1865
• African American History
• United States, 1763-1877
• Southern History
• Rural History
• Maritime History
• History of Florida

Evan Bennett is a historian of the American South who is most interested in the intersections of work and nature. His most recent book is Tampa Bay: The Story of an Estuary and its People (2024). He is author of When Tobacco Was King: Families, Farm Labor, and Federal Policy in the Piedmont (2014) and co-editor of Beyond Forty Acres and a Mule: African American Landowning Families since Reconstruction (2012). His next book project explores the South in 1939 through the lens of photographer Marion Post-Wolcott.

Professor Bennett is also director of the Voting Rights History Civic Literacy Project, a program designed to broaden understanding of the history of voting and elections in the United States supported by a grant from the Mellon Foundation. More information can be found at votingrightshistory.net.

Courses

Undergraduate Courses

• United States History to 1877
• U.S. in Era of WWI and WWII
• America & the Sea
• Work & Workers in U.S. History
• History of Florida
• The American South

Curriculum Vitae (Available upon request)

Website: evanpbennett.com