Dr. John Davis is Assistant Professor, Landscape Architecture Section, in the Knowlton School. He is an environmental and architectural historian and teaches courses in landscape history. His primary research area is on technology, construction, and environment in the Americas in the modern era. Dr. Davis’s current book project is about military and civil engineering and environment in the U.S. South after the American Civil War, examining the physical processes of building that undergirded the central political metaphor of the Reconstruction Era. He is the coeditor of the volume Military Landscapes (Dumbarton Oaks/Harvard University Press, 2021).