Publications

I have published four books. New Orleans on Parade: Tourism and the Transformation of the Crescent City (2006) examines the role that tourism played in transforming the political, economic, social, and cultural contours of New Orleans from World War II through the early twenty-first century. American Tourism: Constructing a National Tradition (2012) is a co-edited volume of thirty-five essays that reveal the fascinating stories behind many of the most iconic destinations in the United States. Believing in Cleveland: Managing Decline in “The Best Location in the Nation” (2017) explores how civic and business leaders used image-making in an effort to reimagine and revive Cleveland in the decades after World War II. Sandhill Cities: Metropolitan Ambitions in Augusta, Columbus, and Macon, Georgia (2025) is a comparative history of Georgia’s fall-line cities in the twentieth century. My newest book project, Hostess City of the South: Tourism and the Making of Modern Savannah, will examine the development of the tourist trade and its interconnections with the social, cultural, and economic history of Georgia’s “first city” since Reconstruction.

My scholarship also appears in articles, chapters, and other essays, including in The Journal of American History, Journal of Planning History, Journal of Urban History, Georgia Historical Quarterly, Louisiana History, The Metropole, Oxford Encyclopedia of American Urban History, Planning Perspectives, Reviews in American History, Oxford Research Encyclopedia in American History, and in edited volumes published by Temple University Press, Lexington Books, Rutgers University Press, and the University of Alabama Press.