James Cusick
James G. Cusick is the curator for the P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History in the George A. Smathers Library, University of Florida (https://pkyonge.uflib.ufl.edu/). He holds his master's and doctoral degrees in anthropology (University of Florida 1989, 1993) and was a postdoctoral fellow in Latin American bibliography at the Perkins Library, Duke University, prior to his current position.
Cusick has a research background in historical archaeology and colonial history and is the author of The Other War of 1812: The Patriot War and the American Invasion of Spanish East Florida (University of Georgia Press, Athens, 2006) and co-editor with Sherry Johnson of The Voyages of Ponce de León: Scholarly Perspectives (Florida Historical Society Press, 2012) and Andrew Jackson in Florida (Florida Historical Society Press, 2016).
As curator for the Yonge Library, Cusick oversees a collection of 25,000 books dating from the 1500s to the present, maintains a collection of 24,000 postcards, 10,000 brochures, 3,000 citrus crate labels, and 2,000 stereographs of Florida. He is the subject specialist for several thousand linear feet of manuscript material about Florida and more than one million pages of the state's colonial and antebellum records on microfilm.
Cusick has served as a board member for the Florida Historical Society, the St. Augustine Historical Society, the Historic St. Augustine Research Institute, the Gulf South History & Humanities Conference, the Seminole Wars Foundation, Inc., and as a judge for the State of Florida Book Awards. He is a frequent speaker and lecturer on topics in Florida history and was one of numerous scholars featured in the nationally televised PBS program Secrets of Spanish Florida.