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EDUCATION

Ph.D. in History, 2002 Harvard University


M.Phil. in Irish Studies, 1995 (first class honors) University College Galway, Ireland

B.A. in History (summa cum laude), 1993 Mount Holyoke College


EMPLOYMENT

2017-- Professor of History, Georgetown University

2015-2017 Special Advisor to the Dean of the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University

2008-2017 Associate Professor of History, Georgetown University

On leave 2015-2017

    1. Assistant Professor of History, Georgetown University


2003-2005 Assistant Professor of History, Pacific Lutheran University

2002-2003 Lecturer in History, Harvard University



SCHOLARSHIP

Books


Troubled Refuge: Struggling for Freedom in the Civil War (New York: Knopf, August 2016).
What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War (New York: Knopf, April 2007). Avery O. Craven Award

Lincoln Prize Honorable Mention

Named one of Best Books of 2007 by Chicago Tribune

Jefferson Davis Prize Honorable Mention

Virginia Literary Award Honorable Mention in Nonfiction

Finalist for Frederick Douglass Award


Selected Articles

“Working for Citizenship in Civil War Contraband Camps,” Journal of the Civil War Era 4:2 (June 2014), 172-204.


“The Shifting Terrain of Attitudes Toward Abraham Lincoln and Emancipation,” Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association 34:1 (Winter 2013), 18-39.
“The Name of War,” with Adam Rothman, “Disunion” column in New York Times, Aug. 17, 2013.
“State of the Field: Where are Union Soldiers Now, and Where in the World Should they Go Next?” Civil War Book Review Winter 2012
“All for the Union-and Emancipation Too,” Dissent Winter 2012.
“Can Soldiers Tell Us Anything about Lincoln,” Soldier Studies website, Summer 2010.
“Of Turning Points and Milestones: Lewis E. Lehrman’s Lincoln at Peoria,” H-Net Reviews, July 2009.
“Demystifying Union Soldiers,” North and South 10:5 (March 2008), 84-89.
“’Like a Handle on a Jug’: Union Soldiers and Abraham Lincoln,” North and South 9:4 (August 2006), 34-46.
Our Liberties and Institutions: What Union and Confederate Soldiers Thought the Civil War Was About,” North and South 7:6 (October 2004), 12-25.
“Politics By Other Means: Soldiers’ Views of the American Civil War, 1861-1865,” Istorika (Athens, Greece), December 2001, 22-29.
“‘Title Page to a Great Tragic Volume:’ The Impact of the Missouri Crisis on Slavery, Race, and Republicanism in the Thought of John C. Calhoun and John Quincy Adams,” Missouri Historical Review, July, 2000, 365-88.
“’A Perfect Institution Belonging to the Regiment’: The Soldier’s Letter and Civil War Soldiers in Kansas,” Kansas History, Winter 2000, 284-97.
“’Tumbling into the Fight’: Charlotte Grace O’Brien, The Emigrant’s Advocate,” History Ireland, 1996, 44-49.
“The Other Half: Inventing Ireland,” Irish Studies Review, 1995, 21-25.
Selected Essays

“Emancipation as State-Building from the Inside Out” in Jim Downs, ed., Beyond Freedom: New Directions in American Emancipation (Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 2017).


“Northern Women and Emancipation” in Judith Giesberg and Randall Miller, eds., Counterpoints: Women and the Civil War (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, spring 2017).
“We Had Our Own Refugee Crisis. You Know it as the Civil War.” History News Network October 2016, http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/164012.

“Shared Suffering and the Way to Gettysburg,” in Sean Conant, ed., The Gettysburg Address: Perspectives on Lincoln’s Greatest Speech (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015).


“Emancipation and its Complex Legacy as the Work of Many Hands,” in Emancipation at 150: The Impact of the Emancipation Proclamation (Washington, D.C.: Lincoln’s Cottage and National Trust for Historic Preservation, 2013).
“Historians Reconsider Grant,” (contributor to feature), Civil War Monitor 4:2 (Spring 2014).
“White Union Soldiers on Slavery and Race,” Major Problems in the Civil War and Reconstruction in Michael Perman and Amy Murrell Taylor, eds. (New York: Wadsworth Publishing, 2010).
“Wartime Nationalism and Race: Comparing the Visions of Confederate, Black Union, and White Union Soldiers,” in William Cooper and John McCardell, eds., The Transformation of America: Essays on the Civil War (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2009).

“’The Order of Nature Would Be Reversed’: Slavery and the North Carolina Gubernatorial Election of 1864,” in Paul Escott, ed., North Carolinians in the Era of the Civil War and Reconstruction (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008).


“’A Vexed Question’: Union Soldiers on Slavery and Race” in Aaron Sheehan-Dean (ed.), The View from the Ground (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2007), 31-66.
Essays in a wide array of reference publications, including (but not limited to) Princeton Encyclopedia of U.S. Political History (Princeton University Press, 2009, The Essential Lincoln: A Political Encyclopedia (Congressional Quarterly Press, 2009), Encyclopedia of Reconstruction (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006); Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery (Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 1997); Major Acts of Congress (New York: Macmillan Reference, 2004); Reader’s Guide to Military History (London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2001), American National Biography (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999).
Essays In Press

“Contraband Camps and the African American Refugee Experience During the Civil War,” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History .


“Military Emancipation Before the Emancipation Proclamation: Overcoming Structural Obstacles” Paul Finkelman and Donald R. Kennon, eds., Congress and the Conduct of the Civil War (Ohio University Press, forthcoming).
Selected Invited Talks And Lectures

“Lincoln, Refugees from Slavery, and the Difficult Birth of Freedom,” York College of Pennsylvania, November 2017.


“Refugees from Slavery,” Foundry Series Lecture Program, The American Civil War Museum, Richmond, VA, July 2017.
“Author’s Conversation about Troubled Refuge,” Newport Public Library, Newport, RI, February 2017.

Troubled Refuge, Harvard Book Store, November 2016.

Troubled Refuge: Contraband Camps in Alexandria and Beyond, Alexandria Black History Museum, October 2016.

“Civil War Contraband Camps, Emancipation, and the Reinvention of the American People,” Georgetown Day School, October 2014

“African Americans & the U.S. Government During and After the Civil War,” Maine Historical Society, May 2014

“What Kind of Revolution Was the Civil War?” Maine Statewide Civil War Symposium, May 2014

“Contraband Camps and Emancipation,” Clara Barton National Historic Site, April 20, 2013

“Running from Slavery: Slave Refugees and the Union Army,” In Search of Freedom Conference, Catoctin Center for Regional Studies, Frederick, MD, March 1, 2013

“The Civil War, the Emancipation Proclamation, and Black Soldiers,” Bleinhem Historic Site Saturday Lecture Series, Feb. 23, 2013

“Who Do You Think You Are? Fugitive Slaves, Civil War Emancipation, and How You Became a Person that Mattered to the U.S. Government,” St. Albans Headmaster’s Lecture Series, Jan. 4, 2013


“Civil War Contraband Camps, Emancipation, and the Reinvention of the American People,” St. Albans School Civil War and Civil Rights Lecture Series, Jan. 3, 2013

“Civil War Contraband Camps, Right Here at the Center,” Alexandria Black History Museum, Nov. 8, 2012

“1862: Moving the Crisis of the Union Toward a Fight for Freedom,” Medina Seminar of the Judiciary Leadership Development Council, Princeton, New Jersey, June 10, 2012.
"Contraband Camps, Slaves, Union Soldiers and the Uncertain Beginnings of Freedom,” Spencer Cave Black History Lecture Series, Park University, Parkville, Missouri, Feb. 28, 2012.
“Will Work for Citizenship,” Beyond Emancipation Symposium, Gilder Lehrman Institute, Yale University, Nov. 11, 2011.
“Of Rags and Bones: The Birth of National Citizenship in Civil War Contraband Camps,” Cone Lecture at

the University of Wyoming, September 20, 2011.


“Uncle Abe and His Ideological Nephews: Why Even Soldiers Who Never Saw Lincoln Loved Him,” Abraham Lincoln Symposium, Springfield, Illinois, Feb. 11-12, 2011.
“Telling Tales about Lincoln: Views of Lincoln and the War Among Confederates, Union Soldiers, and

Freedpeople,” University of Illinois Law School, April 1, 2010


“Lincoln and the Soldiers: An Exploration of a Complex Relationship,” Johns Hopkins University, March

11, 2010.


“Lincoln, Race, and Democracy,” Smithsonian Museum of American History, February 18, 2010.
“Loss, Lincoln’s Fellow Travelers, and the Destruction of Slavery,” Lincoln Group of Washington, D.C.,

Oct. 20, 2009.


“War of Invasion-War of Liberation: Occupied Nashville, the Civil War, and Emancipation in the Upper

South,” June 2009, Nashville, TN.


“America’s Defining Conflict: Through the Eyes of Soldiers, Slaves, and Women,” The Museum of the Confederacy, July 2009.
History Workshop Series, University of Delaware, April 2009.
Historical Literacy Project (NEH-sponsored for teachers), Delaware April 2009
Teaching American History Grant seminar for teachers at Adams National Historic Site, April 2009
“Better Angels: Lincoln the Leader, Lincoln the Led,” Lincoln Symposium at Brown University, February 2009.
“The Case Against False Dichotomies: Soldiers and Lincoln, Union and Liberty,” Villanova University, February 2009.
“Unintentional Experiments in Untidy Laboratories: Redefining Citizenship in Union Army Contraband Camps in the Civil War South,” University of Florida Symposium “Understanding the South, Understanding America,” January 2009.
“Teaching about Civil War Soldiers,” New York University, October 8, 2008.
“Soldiers and Slavery,” Manassas City Museum, September 28, 2008.
“Soldiers, Lincoln, and Slavery,” Lincoln Cottage, Washington, D.C., September 18, 2008.
“Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: Soldiers and God in the Summer of 1863,” Gettysburg National Military Park, July 4, 2008
“Lincoln’s America: Soldiers, Lincoln, The Election of 1864, and the Meaning of the Union’s War,” Gilder Lerhman Institute, Gettysburg College, July 4, 2008
“What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery and the Civil War.” City College of New York, May 2008
“Soldiers and Slavery,” Wisconsin Veterans Museum, April 2008
“Waystations Along a Crooked Road: Contraband Camps, Freedpeople’s Relocation, and the Elusive Meaning of Freedom,” Summersell Lecture in Civil War History, University of Alabama, March 2008

“Bringing the War Back Home: What Kind of Revolution Was the Civil War?” Plenary address at “The Northern Civil War Home Front,” Vermont Humanities Council Conference, Essex, Vermont, Nov. 2007


Wartime Nationalism and Race: USA and CSA,” at “In the Cause of Liberty: How the Civil War Changed American Ideals,” American Civil War Center, Tredegar Iron Works, Richmond, Virginia, March 2007
Selected Conference Presentations

“The Costs of Emancipation” panel comment, Southern Historical Association, Nov. 5, 2016.


“A New Birth of Freedom: Slavery and Independence on the Periphery in Three American Wars,” Southern Labor Studies Association, March, 2015
“Toward Emancipation in 1864,” Organization of American Historians, April 2014
“Religion in the Civil War: State of the Field” panelist, Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting, Nov. 2012
“Clashing Claims: Contraband Camps, Black and White Southern Civilians, and Changing Notions of Citizenship,” Organization of American Historians, March 2011
“Where in the World Should Johnny Reb Go Next?” Southern Historical Association, November 2009

“How I Got Published,” Southern Historical Association, October 2008


“Soldiers, Citizens, and Sources,” American Historical Association, Atlanta, Georgia, January 2007
“Voting With Their Fear: Confederate Soldiers and the 1864 North Carolina Governor’s Election,” Southern Historical Association, Atlanta, Georgia, Nov. 2005
“Regimental Newspapers and How Soldiers Used Them to Maintain Links between Home Life and Army Life,” American Historical Association, Seattle, Washington, Jan. 2005
“Revolution Rejected: Confederate Soldiers and the Black Enlistment Debate,” Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, March 2004
“At a Minute’s Notice:’ The South Boston Neighborhood House and Patterns of Irish Women’s Immigration, 1890-1920,” “The Scattering” Conference on the Irish Diaspora, Cork, Ireland, September 1997
“Charlotte Grace O’Brien and Irish Women’s Immigration,” New England Conference on Irish Studies, St. Anselm College, New Hampshire, 1995

COURSES TAUGHT AT GEORGETOWN

History Focus: The American Revolution

Studies in U.S. History to 1865

History of Baseball and American Society 1840s-1950

Civil War and Reconstruction

Jacksonian Society and Politics

The Coming of the Civil War, 1820-1861

Lincoln


The Antebellum South and the Confederacy

What is U.S. Citizenship?

Slavery, Civil War, and Emancipation

19th c. United States History in International Perspective

Independent Study: Irish History 1600-1922

American Studies Honors Thesis Advisor

History Honors Thesis Advisor

GUROP Faculty Mentor



CURRENT AND RECENT SERVICE AT GEORGETOWN

Founder and Co-Director, Georgetown Workshop in 19th Century U.S. History

Georgetown Institute for Global History

Envisioned and helped implement re-design of History Gen-Ed requirement (now 099)

Athletic Advisory Board

Graduate Studies Committee

Graduate Placement Coordinator

Committee for Undergraduate Studies

Glassman, Sharabi, and Foley Medal Prize Committees

Graduate School Conference Travel Award Committee

Georgetown College Americas Initiative

Event Planner, Speaker, and Panel Host, “Lessons and Legacies: The Civil War and Veterans Today,” a joint NEH and GUVSA event held concurrently with events at the US Naval Academy, West Point, and the Air Force Academy

Speaker as part of Doyle Fellows Program at production of A Civil War Christmas

Class Visitor (Observe junior colleagues’ teaching and provide feedback and coaching)

Merit Review Committee

Writing in the Disciplines participant

Workshop Taught Through CNDLS: Syllabus Design and Construction

Syllabus Design Workshop, Graduate Student Pedagogy Seminar (open to grad students in DC area)

Connected members of the Georgetown University Baseball Team with the Washington Nationals Youth Baseball Academy, which serves children in Wards 7 and 8 (Southeast) of Washington, DC
CURRENT AND RECENT OUTSIDE SERVICE

Scholarly Advising and Consulting

Shockoe Bottom, Richmond, VA

Worked in partnership with the National Trust for Historic Preservation and local community groups and activists on suitable plan for Shockhoe Bottom district, former site of Richmond Slave Market, including infamous Lumpkin’s Jail. Community efforts succeeded in preventing the construction of a baseball stadium right on the site of Lumpkin’s Jail. The City of Richmond and community activists are now in planning conversations about how best to commemorate the site and aid community development simultaneously.


Fort Monroe, National Monument, VA

Invited by the National Park Service and the Organization of American Historians to Fort Monroe, Virginia for multi-day consultation with NPS staff and local community; assisted with public outreach; wrote “Report on Site Visit to Fort Monroe National Monument” which was used to aid the NPS in developing Foundation Document: Fort Monroe National Monument (July 2015), https://www.nps.gov/fomr/learn/management/upload/FOMR_FD_2015.pdf


Lincoln’s Cottage, Washington, DC

Member of Scholarly Advisory Board, an active board that helps design programming, guide preservation policy, and engage in public outreach; I also write occasional pieces for Lincoln’s Cottage publications


National Museum of African American History, Washington, DC

Collaborate with museum staff to develop interpretive plans and programming



Consulting on Special Exhibits

Provide analysis, scholarship, and feedback on special exhibits for:

National Archives, Washington, DC

Virginia Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission’s travelling exhibit, Virginia's Civil War


Faculty Advisor on Educational Materials

Provide written content for, analysis of, and feedback on digital materials designed primarily for teachers’ continuing education at venues such as:

Facing History and Ourselves, Brookline, MA

Massachusetts Historical Society “End of Slavery” Project

National History Education Clearinghouse at George Mason Center for History and New Media, Fairfax, VA

Teacher Training Workshops:

Developed curriculum, compiled lesson plans and teaching materials, and offered classroom instruction at:

Gettysburg, PA

Richmond, VA

Nashville, TN

Quincy, MA

Loudon County, VA

Montgomery County, MD

Newark, DE

New York University, NY

Harpers Ferry, WV
Faculty Advisor to Public School Teachers

Center for Inspired Teaching “BLISS” Initiative (Building Literacy through Social Studies), DC Public Schools


Judge

National History Day, George Washington Middle School, Alexandria, VA

Rachal Prize Committee and McGee Prize Committee (best article prizes in my field)
Serving on Editorial Boards

Civil War History (Just completed term)

Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
Manuscript Reviewer

Review proposals, article drafts, and book manuscripts for several presses and journals; provide editorial feedback to authors


Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer

Served two terms (2009-2012; 2012-2015)



Selected Media Appearances

BBC


Biscuit Factory Television Production

Smithsonian Channel

Diane Rehm Show, NPR
Employment Prior to 2002

Constitution Hall, Lecompton, Kansas, Museum Guide and Educational Program Consultant

Boston National Historical Park, Boston, Massachusetts, Park Ranger 1996-1998

Adams National Historic Site, Quincy, Massachusetts, Park Ranger 1995



Old North Church, Boston, Massachusetts, Docent, 1994

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