In part because of his work on Coca-Cola, the New America Foundation, a Washington, DC-based think tank, named him a Carnegie Fellow in 2017. Arlt Award and the Axiom Business Book Award for best business commentary. Citizen Coke won the Council of Graduate Schools Gustave O. In this book, Bart unveiled Coca-Cola’s playbook of outsourcing the majority of the costs associated with making and distributing the raw materials that go into Coke’s beverages. Bart's first book, Citizen Coke, uncovered the untold environmental history of Coca-Cola, a firm founded in his hometown that became a universally recognized symbol of American capitalism around the world. But first and foremost, Bart thinks of himself as a teacher, and in 2018 he was honored to receive the Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award, Ohio State University's highest teaching accolade. At Ohio State, Bart became a core member of the Sustainability Institute and has focused his research on finding lessons from the past that can help create a more eco-conscious economy in the future. He then served three years as Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Alabama beginning and helped start the department’s environmental history program before joining the OSU faculty in 2016. In 2012, he accepted the Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellowship in Natural Resource Economics and Political Economy at the University of California, Berkeley. There he took an environmental history course that primed him for his professional calling. After college, he made a pit stop in Savannah, Georgia, where he taught history in a public high school, an experience that pushed him to go off to grad school at the University of Virginia.

It started north of Atlanta, where he was born and raised exploring mountains and rivers by foot and kayak. The convergence of Bart’s interest in and passion for the natural world, history, and the American South is a winding one. He currently edits the Histories of Capitalism and the Environment book series at West Virginia University Press.

Norton, 2015) and Seed Money: Monsanto’s Past and Our Food Future (W. He is also the award-winning author of two books, Citizen Coke: The Making of Coca-Cola Capitalism (W.

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