J. Mark Souther

J. Mark Souther was born in Gainesville, Georgia, in 1971 and lives in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. After completing his B.A. at Furman University, he studied at the University of Richmond (M.A.) and Tulane University (Ph.D.). He is Professor of History and Director of the Center for Public History + Digital Humanities at Cleveland State University. He is author of Sandhill Cities: Metropolitan Ambitions in Augusta, Columbus, and Macon, Georgia (LSU Press, 2025), Believing in Cleveland: Managing Decline in "The Best Location in the Nation" (Temple University Press, 2017) and New Orleans on Parade: Tourism and the Transformation of the Crescent City (LSU Press, 2006, 2013), which won the Kemper and Leila Williams Prize in Louisiana History and the Gulf South History Book Award.