Tony C. Perry is Curator of Environmental History at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. At the museum he stewards the Extractive Industries collections and is currently curating an exhibition on Gullah Geechee cultural and environmental heritage. His forthcoming monograph, These Flowers, Those Waters, That Garden: The Environment in the Lives of People Enslaved (UNC), examines the relationship between enslaved people and the nonhuman world in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. He also has a forthcoming short book project titled Black Atlantis: The Muddied Promise of Water in African American Life (Norton), in which he meditates on water-related instances of environmental racism and how black communities have responded to such animus over time. He holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Maryland, College Park.