AMY POTTER

Research Fellow

Amy E. Potter has a Ph.D. in Geography from Louisiana State University. She is an Associate Professor in Geography in the Department of Geology and Geography at Georgia Southern University in Savannah, Georgia. Most of her research connects to the larger themes of cultural justice and Black Geographies in the Caribbean and U.S. South where she has conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork. On the island of Barbuda, she explored the complex relationship between transnational migrants to their common property, while also examining how tourism is transforming Barbudan’s sense of place. Her most recent research examines racialized heritage landscapes in the U.S. South, particularly at plantations and urban house museums. She has published in the Geographical Review, Journal of Heritage Tourism, Historical Geography, Island Studies Journal, and The Southeastern Geographer. She is also a co-editor of Social Memory and Heritage Tourism Methodologies(Routledge).

Expertise: Plantations, Enslavement & Heritage Tourism, Tourism Geographies, Black Geographies

Contact: amypotter@georgiasouthern.edu

Selected Publications

Potter, A., Hanna, S, Carter, P. and A. Modlin. 2020. “Give them more and more for their dollar:” Searching for Slavery Amongst the Plantation Edutainment Complex. Affective Architectures: More-Than-Representational Geographies of Heritage, Jacque Micieli-Voutsinas, Angela M. Person (Ed.): 19-39, New York: Routledge.

Finney, J.R. and Potter, A. E. 2018. “You’re out of your place:” Black mobility on Tybee Island, Georgia from Civil Rights to Orange Crush. The Southeastern Geographer 58 (1): 104-124.

Potter, A. E. 2016. “She goes into character as the lady of the house”: Tour Guides, Performance and the Southern Plantation. Journal of Heritage Tourism 11(3): 250-261

Potter, A. E. 2009. Voodoo, Zombies, and Mermaids: U.S. Newspaper Coverage of Haiti in 2004. Geographical Review 99 (2): 208-230.