Contact Information
Curator, P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History, Special & Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Library (Website).
James Cusick (Ph.D., University of Florida, 1993) holds degrees in journalism and anthropology. He has training as a historical archaeologist and at present works primarily on the history of colonial Florida. His first single-authored book is The Other War of 1812: The Patriot War and the American Invasion of Spanish East Florida (University of Georgia Press, Athens, 2006). He currently is working on a second book, Colonial Crime: Cases from the Records of Spanish East Florida. Cusick runs an internship program for undergraduate history majors who want to learn about the world of archives (HIS 4944). He is the incoming president of the Florida Historical Society (http://myfloridahistory.org/) and a judge in the non-fiction category for the State of Florida‟s annual book awards (http://floridabookawards.lib.fsu.edu/).