Working where knowledge, institutions, and public life meet.
My work brings the humanities into the practical challenges of climate change, disinformation, emerging technology, and public trust.
Director, Texas Tech Climate Center
Professor of Humanities and Literature, Texas Tech Honors College
Former Director, Southern Historical Collection, UNC–Chapel Hill · 2025 Fulbright U.S. Scholar
My Books
My books cross literature, environmental humanities, information systems, and public life. Recent and forthcoming work examines Cormac McCarthy’s engagement with science, how misinformation takes hold in communities, the machinery of Russian influence operations, and what negative theology might teach us about knowledge in an age of AI. Together, these projects reflect a longstanding concern with how people make meaning—and build trust—when established ways of knowing come under pressure.
My Current Projects
A documentary about the lost apples of Texas. Overcoming divisive information. Humanities AI. A campus-wide sustainability initiative. Community health, environmental justice, and archives for all. The Rosenwald Fellows, revisited.
Media and Events
Discussions and talks
I love words fitly spoken.
Events
Including some that are on the horizon.
Podcasts and Media
Various and sundry recordings.
Gracious support for a life of wonder
My work has been sponsored by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the State Department/American Alliance of Museums, the Center for Global Communication, and National Geographic.
Wild imagination
Creativity is my strength and curiosity is the wellspring of my energy.
My career spans law, information science, wetland restoration and forestry. I served as director of the world’s largest archive on the history and culture of the American South.I’ve been a Hemingway Society Fellow and my writing has garnered prizes in nonfiction, fiction, and poetry.
I served as public scholar to the Sowell Family Collection in Literature, Community and the Natural World and now serve as the Provost’s Outreach and Engagement Fellow. I am existentially devoted to problem solving in areas where we face convergent crises of information, environment, and community.
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