Brandon T. Jett is a professor of history at Florida SouthWestern State College and is an award-winning scholar, writer, and teacher of American history and crime, violence, and criminal justice in the United States. He is the author of Race, Crime, and Policing in the Jim Crow South (LSU Press, 2021) and his work has been featured in several venues, including the Washington Post, Ft. Myers News-Press, and on WGCU's Gulf Coast Life. He has won numerous awards for teaching and scholarship, including the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation Early Career Scholar Fellowship from the American Society for Legal History in 2017 and his articles on lynching in northeast Texas won two CK Chamberlain Awards for Outstanding Article in the East Texas Historical Journal.
Personal website: www.brandontjett.com