Jack Emerson Davis is an author and professor of history in Florida. He holds the Rothman Family Endowed Chair in the Humanities and teaches environmental history and sustainability studies at the University of Florida. 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. 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).
Books in order of publication:
Race Against Time: Culture and Separation in Natchez since 1930. Baton Rouge, La. : Louisiana State University Press, 2001.
The Civil Rights Movement Malden (Mass.); Oxford : Blackwell, 2001
The Wide Brim: Early Poems and Ponderings of Marjory Stoneman Douglas – 2002
Making Waves: Female Activists in Twentieth-Century Florida Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2003
An Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century Athens : Univ Of Georgia Press, 2011
The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea. W W Norton & Co Inc 2018
The Bald Eagle: The Improbable Journey of America’s Bird – 2022
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