Rate My Professor Ethan Bottone

Bottone is a broadly trained geographer whose research centers on the intersection of critical studies, tourism, and sustainability. His primary research line explores landscapes and mobility networks of the Green Book, a Jim Crow-era travel guide for Black travelers, with particular emphasis on tourist homes as forms of resistant hospitality against institutional white supremacy. Additional interests encompass critical tourism and memory, including dark tourism spaces associated with the RMS Titanic, minor league baseball mascots, and interstate visitor centers. Key peer-reviewed publications include “Your Home – Away From Home: Tourist Homes and Hospitality as Resistance” in Tourism Geographies (2023), “Jim Crow Journey Stories: African American Driving as Emotional Labor” in Tourism Geographies (2022, co-authored), “On Doing Justice to Black Mobility and Movement in the Classroom” in The Geography Teacher (2024, co-authored), “Beyond Accessibility: Exploring the Representation of People with Disabilities in Tourism Promotional Materials” in Journal of Sustainable Tourism (2021, co-authored), and “The Mapping Behind the Movement: On Recovering the Critical Cartographies of the African American Freedom Struggle” in Geoforum (2021, co-authored). Book chapters feature “Atmospheric Instability in Dark Tourism: Spatial Construction of Conflicting Affective Atmospheres at the Titanic Museum & Attraction” (2025) and “Please Mention the Green Book: The Negro Motorist Green Book as Critical GIS” (2020). He contributes as Co-Editor for Material Culture of the Pioneer America Society and has delivered public lectures such as “Contesting Memory through Space: The Potawatomi Trail of Death.” In March 2026, he was promoted to associate professor.