Bio
Bryson Kisner is a historian of the U.S. South and Southwest, especially of borderlands and the environment, as well as the United States, the Americas, and the Atlantic World. His research focuses on the Texas-Louisiana borderlands in the nineteenth century, which was the topic of his dissertation (“From Borderland to Southern Land: The Changing Landscape of the Sabine River Valley, 1800-1877”) and is the subject of his current manuscript project and in-progress articles. He is also working on articles on the memorialization of civil war–era figures and of Confederate naval activity. In his free time, he enjoys gardening, birding, cooking and baking, theater (especially Shakespeare), and reading fiction.