Christy Hyman is a digital humanist, environmental advocate, and educator with a PhD in Geography from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her research centers on the cultural and political agency of African American communities in the Gullah Geechie Corridor of South Carolina and the Great Dismal Swamp region of the Virginia/North Carolina borderlands.  Utilizing Geographic Information Systems, Christy explores how digital cartography can illuminate the human experience while addressing the effects of oppressive societal systems on sustainable futures. She has shared her findings at prestigious humanities centers, such as the Dave Rumsey Map Center at Stanford University, Dartmouth College, and the Artes Liberales Colloquium at the University of Warsaw.
Christy is the author of two influential books: The Cultural Heritage Resilience of the Great Dismal Swamp (Bloomsbury, 2025) and is currently writing Pest Control: Birds, Black Folk, and the History of Environmental Consciousness in the U.S. South, which is under contract with Louisiana State University Press and will be completed in December 2027.

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Find her in archives, in swamps, grasslands, and the seashore.

Five centuries of literary tradition—a Swiss institution that’s printed everything from currency to classics since 1519—and now, somehow, impossibly, my little book is sold there! Grateful!

Odyssey Books right in my adopted home of Ithaca NY

Raleigh, NC and North Carolina’s 1st Black-owned Children’s Bookstore

The esteemed Utrecht University Library, my heartfelt thanks for adding my trade book to your storied shelves. Within your hallowed halls, where knowledge has reigned since 1636, 1 am honored to find a place among the countless voices that have shaped the human mind.