Scott Reynolds Nelson has been an opera supernumerary, dishwasher, and network engineer. He found his calling in his twenties and now writes about African American history, railroad history, and the history of commodities. He has taught at William & Mary and the University of Leiden, and has been a research fellow at the EHESS in Paris, Harvard's Warren Center, and at the Newberry Library in Chicago. A Guggenheim Fellow in 2019-2020, he now teaches history at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. He has been known to annoy his family by singing too loudly or muttering complaints to dogs that have long since died.
