James R Cothran

James R. Cothran is a practicing landscape architect, urban planner, and garden historian in Atlanta. He holds degrees from Clemson University, the University of Georgia, and the Georgia Institute of Technology. Cothran serves as an adjunct professor at the University of Georgia and Georgia State University, where he teaches graduate courses on America's historic gardens and landscapes. A fellow in the American Society of Landscape Architects, Cothran is past president of the Southern Garden...See more

James R. Cothran is a practicing landscape architect, urban planner, and garden historian in Atlanta. He holds degrees from Clemson University, the University of Georgia, and the Georgia Institute of Technology. Cothran serves as an adjunct professor at the University of Georgia and Georgia State University, where he teaches graduate courses on America's historic gardens and landscapes. A fellow in the American Society of Landscape Architects, Cothran is past president of the Southern Garden History Society and currently serves on the boards of the Alliance for Historic Landscape Preservation, Trees Atlanta, and the Cherokee Garden Library-Center for the Study of Southern Garden History. He is the author of Gardens of Historic Charleston and Gardens and Historic Plants of the Antebellum South, which has been honored with awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects, the National Garden Clubs, the Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries, the Georgia Historical Society, and other organizations. See less