Bart Elmore, environmental historian at the Ohio State University, presents the Capitalists Souths, Graduate Student Conference Keynote lecture: "Countryside Capitalism: How Businesses from the American South Transformed Global Economies and Ecosystems in the 20th Century"

Elmore is an associate professor of history at Ohio State University and a member of the Sustainable and Resilient Economy Discovery Group at OSU. His first book, Citizen Coke: The Making of Coca-Cola Capitalism (W. W. Norton, 2015), won the Axiom Business Book Award for best business commentary in 2015 and the Council of Graduate Schools 2016 Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities.