Scholar - Women Also Know History

Participant Info

Keywords: Environmental history, Environmental policy, Twentieth-century US history, Louisiana history, Southern history, Wetlands, Land use, Water use

About Me: I earned my PhD in US history at Louisiana State University in 2016, and I specialize in environmental history and environmental policy, with a particular interest in land-use and water-use practices. I have published with OHA’s Process blog and Southern Cultures, and I am currently working on a manuscript for the University Press of Mississippi that examines policies related to Louisiana’s coastal erosion crisis.

Recent Publications

Louisiana Lost: The Struggle to Save the State’s Vanishing Wetlands, University Press of Mississippi, publication forthcoming
“Planning for a Smaller Coast: Restoration, Protection, and Social Justice in Coastal Louisiana, USA,” Louisiana’s Response to Extreme Weather: A Test Case for Coastal Resilience (editor, Shirley Laska), co-authored with Scott Hemmerling and Monica Barra, publication forthcoming
“Documenting Environmental History: Using Government Sources to Understand Louisiana’s Coastal Erosion Crisis,” Environmental History Now: A Blog, September 11, 2018
“‘A Self-Inflicted Wound’: The Impact of Coastal Erosion and Restoration on Louisiana’s Oyster Industry,” Southern Cultures, Vol. 24, No. 1: Food IV, The Coast, Spring 2018 (published under “Rebecca Bond Costa”)
“How Land Use Contributed to Risk and Disaster during Hurricane Katrina,” Process: A Blog for American History, Organization of American Historians, May 16, 2017 (published under “Rebecca Bond Costa”)
Review for Baptized in PCB’s: Race, Pollution, and Justice in an All-American Town by Ellen Griffith Spears, The Alabama Review, July 2016 (published under “Rebecca Bond Costa”)