Alan Tully, Chair
128 Inner Campus Dr., Stop B7000, GAR 1.104 Austin, TX 78712-1739 • 512-471-3261
Blake Scott
— MA in History, University of Georgia
Contact
- E-mail: blake.sctt@gmail.com
- Office: BUR 310
- Office Hours: Tuesday, 4:00 to 6:00pm or by appointment
Biography
Blake is a doctoral student, studying the history of people, ideas, and commodities moving across the Americas. His dissertation explores the development of tourism in the Caribbean – from Florida to the Panama Canal – during the 20th- and 21st-centuries.
Blake has published his work in several journals and has received fellowships from the Fulbright Program and the Smithsonian. At UT-Austin, his advisor is Frank Guridy.
Interests
Latin America & the Caribbean; history of tourism & travel; environmental history; transnational commodity chains; U.S-Latin American relations
