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Scott Nesbit is an associate professor at the University of Georgia’s College of Environment and Design, where he serves as coordinator of the Historic Preservation program. He also holds an appointment in the Department of History in Franklin College of Arts and Sciences.  His research has explored the geography and material culture of the American South. He earned a PhD in history at the University of Virginia in 2013, where he wrote about the geography of slavery and emancipation in the Civil War South. From 2009 until 2014 he was the associate director of the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond. He has led digital history projects such as Visualizing Emancipation, which used a wide array of textual sources—ranging from military correspondence to runaway slave advertisements found in southern newspapers–to map out where and when slavery fell apart during the American Civil War. His current research is focused on the circulation of recycled building materials in the twentieth-century United States.