Dr. Parrish is interested in the interrelated issues of race, the environment, and epistemology in the Atlantic world from 1492 up through the twentieth century, with a particular emphasis on the plantation zones. Her current projects include work on slavery and portraiture in the 18th-century Atlantic world, a new edition of Robert Beverley’s 1705 History and Present State of Virginia, and a book-length study of the ecological imagination of the U.S. South in the first half of the Twentieth Century. Her recent book American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World (UNCP, 2006) has been awarded the Jamestown Prize and the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize for its contribution to understanding “the intellectual and cultural condition of humanity.” Dr. Parrish is also a Fellow at the Graham Environmental Sustainability Institute (UM).