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Christopher Morris lives in Dallas, Texas, and is Professor of History at the University of Texas, Arlington. He is the author of two books, Becoming Southern: The Evolution of a Way of Life, Warren County and Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1770-1860, and The Big Muddy: An Environmental History of the Mississippi and Its Peoples from Hernando de Soto to Hurricane Katrina.

In addition, he has authored or co-authored more than twenty articles, essays, and book chapters, and co-edited three essay collections, on subjects ranging from slavery in the sugarcane fields of Louisiana to climate change as revealed in the cartographic history of the Great Lakes.

He is best known for his work on slavery and on the relationship between people and the natural environment in the American South.

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Morris holds a doctorate from the University of Florida. He has received several awards, including a Pulitzer nomination and a senior fellowship at the Stanford Humanities Center. At present Mor