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About Brandon Jett
I received my PhD in History from the University of Florida in 2017 and current work as a Professor of History at Florida SouthWestern State College. I am an award-winning scholar, writer, and teacher of American history and crime, violence, and criminal justice in the United States, particularly focusing on the American South. My first book, Race, Crime, and Policing in the Jim Crow South, came out in July 2021. I've also been engaged with public work and writing over the last year. I've work has been featured in numerous venues, including the Washington Post, Ft. Myers News-Press, and WGCU.Brandon T. Jett, professor of history at Florida SouthWestern State College, creator of the Lynching in LaBelle Digital History Project, and author of Race, Crime, and Policing in the Jim Crow South (LSU Press, 2021) and co-editor of Steeped in a Culture of Violence: Murder, Racial Injustice, and Other Violent Crimes in Texas, 1965–2020 (Texas A&M University Press, scheduled Spring 2023). Twitter: @DrBrandonJett1.
NBN Episodes hosted by Brandon:
October 13, 2023
Talking Back
Historian Alejandra Dubcovsky tells a story of war, slavery, loss, remembrance, and the women whose resilience and resistance transformed the colonial…
March 27, 2023
Southern Beauty
Elizabeth Bronwyn Boyd's book Southern Beauty: Race, Ritual, and Memory in the Modern South (U Georgia Press, 2022) explains a curiosity: why a femini…
February 8, 2023
Rural Republican Realignment in the Modern South
Beginning with the Dixiecrat Revolt of 1948 and extending through the 2020 election cycle, political scientists M.V. Hood III and Seth C. McKee trace …
December 7, 2022
The Life of Elreta Melton Alexander
Virginia L. Summey's book The Life of Elreta Melton Alexander: Activism within the Courts (U Georgia Press, 2022) explores the life and contributions …
November 10, 2022
Scars on the Land
They worked Virginia's tobacco fields, South Carolina's rice marshes, and the Black Belt's cotton plantations. Wherever they lived, enslaved people fo…
September 9, 2022
Behind the Big House
When residents and tourists visit sites of slavery, whose stories are told? All too often the lives of slaveowners are centered, obscuring the lives o…
May 31, 2022
Becoming Free, Becoming Black
How did Africans become 'blacks' in the Americas? Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana (Cambridge UP…
April 19, 2022
Far-Right Vanguard
Donald Trump shocked the nation in 2016 by winning the presidency through an ultraconservative, anti-immigrant platform, but, despite the electoral su…
March 17, 2022
The Ballad of Robert Charles
For a brief moment in the summer of 1900, Robert Charles was arguably the most infamous black man in the United States. After an altercation with poli…
February 15, 2022
Elegy for Mary Turner
In late May 1918 in Valdosta, Georgia, ten Black men and one Black woman—Mary Turner, eight months pregnant at the time—were lynched and tortured by m…
January 26, 2022
Choctaw Confederates
When the Choctaw Nation was forcibly resettled in Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma in the 1830s, it was joined by enslaved Black people—the tr…
December 8, 2021
Southern Journey
Taking a wide focus, Southern Journey: The Migrations of the American South, 1790-2020 (LSU Press, 2020) narrates the evolution of southern history fr…
October 26, 2021
American Atrocity
Lynching is often viewed as a narrow form of violence: either the spontaneous act of an angry mob against accused individuals, or a demonstration of w…