Dr. Christy Hyman

Assistant Professor, History

Christy Hyman is an Associate Professor in the Department of History. She uses Geographic Information Systems to observe how critical geography can inform us of human/interspecies experience while acknowledging phenomena deriving from oppressive systems. 

Christy has two book projects: The first, The Cultural Heritage Resilience of the Great Dismal Swamp is under contract with Hamilton Books an imprint of Rowman and Littlefield. Her other book project, The Jerusalem Oak: Mapping the Counter-Cartographies of Freedom and Struggle in the antebellum United States South argues that enslaved people’s conception of space remapped the landscape of southern society that influenced, then set the stage for a surveillance apparatus that defined the place of African-descendent people in the years following Emancipation. Additionally, a co-edited book project on the history of  human-environmental dimensions of the Bobolink is in development with ornithologist, Frederic Beaudry.