Jack E. Davis

Jack Emerson Davis is an American author and distinguished 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. Provided by Wikipedia