Scot French

Scot French is a digital public historian specializing in the study of cultural landscapes and sites of memory associated with 19th- and 20th-century African American and Southern history. He is author of The Rebellious Slave: Nat Turner in American Memory (Houghton Mifflin, 2004) and lead author of Booker T. Washington Elementary School and Segregated Education in Virginia (National Park Service, 2007). His film That World is Gone: Race and Displacement in a Southern Town won Audience Favorite, Best Short Documentary, at the Virginia Film Festival in 2010. He received his Ph.D. in History from the University of Virginia in 2000. At UCF he is Associate Professor of History, Director of Public History, and Associate Director of CHDR, and a core faculty member in the Texts and Technology Ph.D. program.