Kisner

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Advisors: Professor Drs. Caleb McDaniel and Professor Randal Hall

Dissertation: “From Borderland to Southern Land: The Changing Landscape of the Sabine River Valley, 1800-1877"


Bryson Kisner is a Ph.D. candidate studying historical borderlands of the U.S. South and Southwest through an environmental lens. His dissertation, “From Borderland to Southern Land: The Changing Landscape of the Sabine River Valley, 1800-1877," studies how diverse communities reshaped and exploited the landscape of the Texas-Louisiana border region, and how local ecologies abetted or impeded them.

Bryson's interest in this history began while pursuing his B.A. at The University of Texas at Austin, which he obtained in 2017. He has shared research pertaining to this and other projects at venues such as the 2022 Society of Civil War Historians Conference and R.U.M. Seminars held at Instituto de Investigatciones Dr. José María Luis Mora in Mexico City and Rice University in Houston.

Publications:

Research Areas

Nineteenth Century United States; United States South; Environmental History; Borderlands History; Atlantic World

Education

M.A., Rice University (2021)

B.A., The University of Texas at Austin (2017)

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