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Education

Ph.D. History, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, 2018
Dissertation Title: “The Cruel Consequences of War: Life in Fauquier County, Virginia, 1861-1863”
Advisor: Daniel E. Sutherland
M.A. History, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, 2012
Thesis Title: “When the Rangers Came Home: Reconstructing Lives in Fauquier County, Virginia, 1865 – 1866”
Advisor: Paul Christopher Anderson
B.A. History and Religious Studies, Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Virginia, 2009
With honors, Phi Beta Kappa, cum laude

Employment

Part-time Assistant Professor, Department of History, Randolph-Macon College, 2016 – Present

Classes Taught:

  • History of American Technology: 4 sections, 100 students
  • World History 1500 – Present: 3 sections, 70 students
  • Nineteenth Century America: 2 sections, 65 students
  • World History to 1500: 1 section, 26 students
  • Foundations of the Modern World I: 1 section, 25 students
  • World Civilizations Since 1789: 1 section, 25 students

Instructor of Record, Department of History, University of Arkansas, 2013 – 2016

Classes Taught:

  • History of the American People 1877 to Present: 6 sections, 250 students
  • History of the American People to 1877: 4 sections, 160 students
  • Institutions and Ideas of World Civilizations II: 1 section, 40 students
  • People and Places in the Civil War, Senior Capstone Seminar: 1 section, 17 students

Teaching Assistant, Department of History, Clemson University, 2010 – 2012

Public History Experience

Education Assistant, Pamplin Historical Park and the National Museum of the Civil War Soldier, 2019 – Present

Conference Presentations

“A Restoration of Rights and Citizenship: Pardon and Amnesty in post-Civil War northern Virginia,” The Virginia Forum, Richmond, VA, September 2020

“This Debatable Land: Life on the Civil War Border in Fauquier County, Virginia,” Conference on the Civil War, University of Mississippi Center for Civil War Research, Oxford, MS, September 2017

“‘Our Country May Yet Be Redeemed’: Life in Fauquier County, Virginia, 1861-1865,” The Virginia Forum, Norfolk, VA, March 2017

“The Cost of Allegiance: Mosby’s Rangers and the Civilians of Fauquier County, Virginia,” Ohio Valley History Conference, Cookeville, TN, October 2016

“Battlefield or home front?  Life with Mosby’s Rangers in Fauquier County, Virginia,” Popular Culture and American Culture Association Annual Conference, Seattle, WA, March 2016

“’Of great natural beauty, of fertility, and healthfulness:’ Understanding the Post-War Lives of Mosby and his Men in Fauquier County, Virginia, 1865-1866,” LSU Graduate History Conference, Baton Rouge, LA, March 2015

“Life After War? Mosby’s Rangers and the Art of Drafting an Amnesty Application,” 36th Annual Mid-America Conference on History, Fort Smith AR, September 2014

Invited Talks and Public Presentations

“Women at War: The Fauquier County Homefront,” Mosby Heritage Area Association, The Plains, VA, September 2018

“Life in Fauquier County, Virginia, during the Civil War,” Nelson Lankford Colloquia, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, VA, June 2016

“Mosby’s Confederacy: Fauquier County Virginia in the Civil War,” Northwest Arkansas, Civil War Roundtable, Springdale, AR, April 2016

Book Reviews

William Cooper, Approaching Civil War and Southern History (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2019), Journal of the Civil War Era, forthcoming.

Erik Mathisen, The Loyal Republic: Traitors, Slaves, and the Remaking of Citizenship in Civil War America (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2018), Journal of Southern History, 85, no. 4 (2019).

Bloody Engagements: John R. Kelso’s Civil War. Christopher Grass, ed. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017), Civil War History, 64, no. 3 (2018).

Louis P. Masur, Lincoln’s Last Speech: Wartime Reconstruction and the Crisis of Reunion (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015), Newsletter for the Society of Civil War Historians, Winter 2017.

Wallace Hettle, The Confederate Homefront: A History in Documents (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2017), The Civil War Monitor, Published online October 4, 2017. https://www.civilwarmonitor.com/book-shelf/hettle-the-confederate-homefront-2017

Anne Sarah Rubin, Through the Heart of Dixie: Sherman’s March and American Memory (UNC Press, 2014), American Nineteenth Century History, Published online May 17, 2016. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14664658.2016.1175862

Jonathan White, Emancipation, The Union Army, and the Reelection of Abraham Lincoln (LSU Press, 2014), Civil War History, 61, no. 4 (2015).

Elizabeth Varon, Appomattox: Victory, Defeat, and Freedom at the End of the Civil War (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013), Essays in History, (2014).

William Connery, Civil War Northern Virginia 1861 (The History Press, 2011), The Civil War Monitor, Posted 3/10/2015

Fellowships and Awards

Andrew W. Mellon Research Fellowship, Virginia Historical Society, 2016    

Michael Schoenecke Travel Grant, American Culture Association, 2016 

Diane D. Blair Fellowship in Southern History, University of Arkansas, 2016

Doctoral Academy Fellowship, University of Arkansas, 2012-2016  

Doctoral Student Travel Grant, Graduate School, University of Arkansas, 2012-2016

James J. Hudson Research Fellowship, University of Arkansas, 2014-2016

Willard Gatewood Graduate Fellowship, University of Arkansas, 2013 

Professional and Community Experience

Book Review Co-Editor, H-CivWar, 2018-Present                                 

Grader, A.P. U.S. History Exam, 2015-Present

Reader Reviewer, University Press of Mississippi, 2020

Vice Speaker, Graduate Student Congress, University of Arkansas, 2015-2016 

Interpretive Guide, Battle of Fayetteville Sesquicentennial, 2013

Professional Memberships

Phi Alpha Theta

Society of Civil War Historians

Southern Association of Women Historians

Southern Historical Association

Virginia Historical Society