James Cusick is the curator of the P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History, a special collection at the University of Florida. Besides his work at the university, he has served as a board member for the Florida Historical Society, the St. Augustine Historical Society, the Seminole Wars Foundation, Inc., and as a judge for the State of Florida Book Awards.  Cusick is the author of The Other War of 1812: The Patriot War and the American Invasion of Spanish East Florida (University of Georgia Press, Athens, 2006) and co-editor, with Sherry Johnson, of The Voyages of Ponce de León: Scholarly Perspectives (Florida Historical Society Press, 2012) and Andrew Jackson in Florida (Florida Historical Society Press, 2016).