Dr. Stephanie Bryan is a postdoctoral fellow in the School of History and Sociology at Georgia Tech. She holds a PhD in History from Emory University, and she researches and teaches on topics such as environmental history, food studies, southern history, and digital humanities. Her current research project centers on subsistence landscapes in the United States that formed on the margins of cotton from the era of enslavement through Jim Crow apartheid. This work deepens our understanding of the class prejudices, racial associations, and gender formations that historically affected and frequently suppressed the consumption of a range of native plant and animal species, including muscadine, pokeweed, opossum, and persimmon.
You can learn more about Stephanie's research from a recent publication on opossums and Jim Crow politics, published in Southern Spaces.