Kyra Sanchez Clapper is an educator who teaches French, US History, and World History at numerous institutions. She recently obtained her PhD from the Department of History at the University of Memphis, where she specializes in modern European history, French history, environmental history, and Romanticism. Her dissertation, “Les jardins exotiques: Early French Romanticism and Its Impact on Travel Inspired Nineteenth-Century French Gardens”, is an environmental history of transatlantic botanical exchange in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that integrates scientific and literary historiographies.