Evan Bennett was born-and-raised in Tampa. He earned a BA and an MA in history from the University of South Florida before going on to complete a PhD in American History from the College of William & Mary. He is now an associate professor of history at Florida Atlantic University, where he teaches courses in Florida history, environmental history, and labor history. He is a scholar of the American South who is interested most in the intersections of work and nature, or, to put it another way, how people work under the sun.