He received a BA from Centre College, and an MA in Public History and PhD in U.S. History from the University of South Carolina. Prior to researching Ossabaw Island, Kutzler worked on a variety of preservation and interpretive projects in addition to his research on sensory history-the way people in the past mediated and understood the environment through sounds, smells, touches, tastes, and sights. In 2015, he met Jill Stuckey in Plains, Georgia, when he was working for the National Park Service. They began collaborating on this project in December 2015 when Wayne Johnson of Macon, Georgia, offered to fund the project. Books by Evan Kutzler