CANDACE FORBES BRIGHT

Research Fellow, SHE/HER

Candace Forbes Bright, Ph.D. is Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at East Tennessee State University. Dr. Bright’s scholarly activities specialize in social/cultural development with a focus on community health and race, with much of her time devoted to the work of the Gulf States Health Policy Center. She specializes in both quantitative and qualitatively methodologies, including social network analysis.

Expertise: Plantations, Enslavement & Heritage Tourism, Sociological Perspectives of Race

Contact: brightcm@etsu.edu

Selected Publications

Bright, C.F, Foster, K, Joyner, A., & Tanney, O. (2020). Heritage Tourism, Historic Roadside Markers and “Just Representation” in Tennessee, USA. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, special issue on Justice and Tourism.

Bright, C. F., Carter, P., Modlin Jr, E.A., Hanna, S., Potter, A., & Alderman, D. (2019). The Local Role of Southern Tourism Plantations in Defining a Larger Southern Regional Identity as Reflected in Tourists’ Surveys. Geographical Review, 1-29.

Bright, C. F., & Carter, P. (2018). Social Representational Communities and the Imagined Antebellum South. Sociological Spectrum, 38(1), 24-38.

Bright, C. F., Alderman, D. H., & Butler, D. L. (2018). Tourist plantation owners and slavery: A complex relationship. Current Issues in Tourism, 21(15), 1743-1760.