Jack E. Davis

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Jack E. Davis
Davis at the 2018 Pulitzer Prizes
Alma mater	Brandeis University
Occupation	Historian, academic
Employer	University of Florida
Awards	Pulitzer Prize for History (The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea, 2018) Carnegie Fellow (2019, Carnegie Corporation of New York)

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.^[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.