[David] McCally is a part-time instructor in social and behavioral sciences at Santa Fe Community College who started in January, confirmed college spokesman Larry Keen. He will be “removed” from the classroom pending an administrative review on Monday, he said. [minor antecedent reference problem: is Keen being removed?]
A Google search suggests that Dr. McCally, 55, is a history professor who’s lived the peripatetic life of a Ph.D. (see “Adjunct, Invisible”) at a variety of institutions in Florida, and is apparently the author of The Everglades: An Environmental History, which appears to have been received with some acclaim. Interestingly, he is not listed as a faculty member at SFCC, but is listed as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Florida and as having a Ph.D. from that institution.
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MC CALLY, David (PhD, Florida; adj. assist. Prof.)
US, Florida, Environmental History
David McCally's first book, The Everglades: An Environmental History, tells the story of the Everglades, beginning with tectonic plates and carrying through to the fruition of the modern system of total water control. The book's interpretive thread argues that the interplay between the district's growers' desire for an agricultural cornucopia in the Everglades, and the water control efforts required to achieve that end, have killed the Everglades. Dr McCally is currently teaching part-time in order to work on a new book about south Florida. This work will place the 1999 Everglades restudy and restoration plan in the historical context of the state's previous, and largely futile, environmental restoration efforts. This work's interpretative theme will concentrate on the folly of attempts to treat environmental restoration as exercises in civil engineering without making fundamental changes in the state's social contract, that is, an acknowledgment that a sustainable environment requires that people have sustainable lives. davidmc@history.ufl.edu