Evan P. Bennett is an associate professor of history at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, where he teaches courses in Florida history and environmental history. He also directs the Voting Rights History Civic Literacy Project, a project supported by the Mellon Foundation to develop online resources for improving student and public knowledge of the history and practices of voting in the United States. His book Tampa Bay: The Story of an Estuary and Its People (University Press of Florida, 2024) won the Silver Medal in Florida Non-Fiction from the Florida Book Awards. He is author of When Tobacco Was King: Families, Farm Labor, and Federal Policy in the Piedmont (UPF, 2014) and co-editor of Beyond Forty Acres and a Mule: Landowning African American Farm Families since Reconstruction (UPF, 2012). He holds a Ph.D. in American History from the College of William & Mary, and a B.A. and M.A. in history from the University of South Florida. He was born and raised in Tampa, and will be appearing as part of the Florida Book Award non-fiction winners panel at this year’s Word of South.
Evan Bennett
