Evan Kutzler

Evan Kutzler is a U.S. historian and a practitioner of public history. He has published five book-length projects, including a monograph, Living by Inches: The Smells, Sounds, Tastes, and Feeling of Captivity in Civil War Prisons (University of North Carolina Press, 2019) and a collection of primary sources, Prison Pens: Gender, Memory, and Imprisonment in the Writings of Mollie Scollay and Wash Nelson (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2018) with a digital companion. He is currently writing a book about Rosa Lee Ingram, a widowed mother of twelve whose trial became an international symbol of southern and American injustice in the Cold War era. The sentencing sparked a successful movement to save the lives of Rosa Lee and two children who stood trial as co-defendants.

Dr. Kutzler shares a commitment to public history: a broad interdisciplinary field of professionals who work outside the classroom and beyond the traditional mediums of academic scholarship. His public history projects have included national register nominations, websites, and digital tours, as well as newspaper, magazine, and book publications. A sample of projects include a photography book, Ossabaw Island: A Sense of Place with an introduction by President Jimmy Carter (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2016), a cookbook, From Biscuits to Lane Cake: Emma Rylander Lane’s “Some Good Things to Eat” (Macon: Mercer University Press, forthcoming October 2023), and an National Park Service study on African American history at Andersonville National Historic Site