John Davis is an environmental and architectural historian and assistant professor at the Knowlton School, where he teaches courses in landscape history. His primary research area is on technology, construction, and environment in the Americas in the modern era. Davis’s current book project is entitled Reconstructors: Work, Land, and Engineering after the Civil War (under contract with the University of Chicago Press). The book examines military and civil engineering and environment in the U.S. South after the American Civil War and 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) and the forthcoming Architectures of the Greater Caribbean (University of Texas Press). His articles and essays have appeared in Buildings & Landscapes, Landscape Journal, and Harvard Design Magazine.