Charles R. Welsko 220 Woodburn Hall West Virginia University Morgantown, West Virginia, 26506 [email protected] Education: Doctorate of Philosophy, West Virginia University, expected May 2019 Advisor: Dr. Jason Phillips Dissertation: Breaking and Remaking the Mason-Dixon Line: Loyalty in Civil War America, 1850-1900 Master of Arts, West Virginia University, 2014 Bachelor of Arts, Moravian College, 2011, Summa cum laude with Honors in History
Employment:
Limited Term Assistant Professor of History & Director, University History Project, University of West Georgia, Fall 2018-Spring 2019
Graduate Research Assistant, West Virginia University, Fall 2017-Spring 2018 Graduate Instructor, West Virginia University, Fall 2015-Spring 2018 Graduate Teaching Assistant, West Virginia University, Fall 2014-Spring 2015 Publications:
““Like a Dark Cloud”: Loyalty, Virtue, and the Civil War in Western Virginia,” West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies, Volume 10, Number 1, Spring 2016, 45-68
Book Reviews:
Review of The Second Battle of Winchester: The Confederate Victory that Opened the Door to Gettysburg, Eric J. Wittenberg and Scott L. Mingus, in Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 125, Number 1, 74-5. Review of Emancipation, the Union Army, and the Reelection of Abraham Lincoln. Jonathan W. White, in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 141, Number 1, January 2017, 98-9. Review of For Slavery and Union: Benjamin Buckner and Kentucky Loyalties in the Civil War. By Patrick A. Lewis. and More American than Southern: Kentucky, Slavery, and the War for an American Ideology, 1828-1861. By Daniel R. Matthews, in West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies, Volume 9, Number 2, Fall 2015, 106-9.
Conference Presentations: Mapping Yankeedom and Dixie: The Cultural Cartographers of Loyalty in the Wartime Mid- Atlantic, “Recasting Perceptions of Loyalty: Cultural Cartographers, Bitter Brothers, and Determined Democrats in the Civil War Era,” Society of Civil War Historians Conference, May 31-June 2, 2018, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania The Cultural Cartography of Yankeedom and Dixie: Mapping Loyalty in the Civil War Mid- Atlantic, 1861-1865, 17th Annual Graduate Research Symposium, William & Mary University, March 16-17, 2018 Raising the Buried Voices: Nineteenth-Century African-Americans and Digital Archives, “Digitization, Representation & Access Roundtable,” Bibliography Among the Disciplines Conference, October 2017, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania The Snakes of Loyalty: Copperheads, Blacksnakes, and a Crisis of Democracy in Eastern Pennsylvania, 2015 Pennsylvania Historical Association Conference, October 8-10, 2015 Copperheads and Black Republicans: The Twin Snakes of Loyalty in Eastern Pennsylvania, 7th Conference on the Civil War, “This Terrible War”, University of Mississippi, Center for Civil War Research, October 3-5, 2013 A Different Shade of Blue: The Draft, Volunteerism, and the Men of Northampton County in September 1862, 16th Annual Brian Bertoti Innovative Perspectives in History Graduate Conference, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, April 5-6, 2013 Hesitant Warriors: The 1862 Volunteers of the 153rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment, 2011 Pennsylvania Historical Association Conference, October 13-15, 2011 We Have Come Father Abraham ‘In Lieu of a Draft’: The 153rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment Enlists for War, The National Conference on Undergraduate Research, March 30-April 2, 2011
George Whitefield and the Moravians: An Examination of their Relationship, The Bethlehem Conference on Moravian History and Music, October 14, 2010
Invited Presentations/Panels: Breaking the Mason-Dixon Line: Maryland, the Mid-Atlantic, and Loyalty in the Civil War, 1861-1865 Lord Baltimore Fellowship, Brown Bag Lunch Talk, May 15, 2018 Bethlehem’s Civil War, Panelist, April 15, 2012 The Union Blue in ’62: Volunteers, the Draft, and ‘Northampton’s Own’ in the Summer of 1862, Northampton County Historical and Genealogical Society, July 9, 2011 ‘Northampton’s Own’: A Brief History of Northampton’s 153rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Moravian Historical Society Lecture at Lunch, June 7, 2011
“Obviate a Draft!”: Why the 153rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment Volunteered, Moravian College Scholar’s Day, April 19, 2011
Public History Experience: Remembering Lincoln, Undergraduate Mentor, West Virginia University, HIST: 393D, Digital History, Spring 2018 Remembering Lincoln Digital History Project, Ford’s Theatre Society, Washington D.C., Summer 2015 Cooper’s Rock State Forest Cultural Resource Management Project, West Virginia University, Spring 2015 Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park, West Virginia University Summer Intern, Summer 2014 Moravian Historical Society, Docent, 2006-August 2012. Northampton County Historical and Geological Society, Member Civil War Sesquicentennial Exhibit Committee, December 2010-June 2011
Fellowships and Awards: Bibliographical Society of American Scholarship Award, Bibliography Among the Disciplines Conference, October 2017 West Virginia University History Department Doctoral Research Grant, West Virginia University, Summer 2017 Lord Baltimore Fellowship, 2017, Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, Maryland 2017 Vernon Nelson Research Grant, Moravian Archives, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 2017 Ridgway Family Endowment Research Grant, Army Heritage and Education Center, Carlisle, Pennsylvania Mellon Research Fellowship, Virginia Historical Society, June 20-24, 2016 Eberly College of Arts and Sciences Research Award, West Virginia University, Summer 2016 West Virginia University History Department Research Mini-Grant, West Virginia University, Summer 2016 The William D. Barns Award in West Virginia or Regional History, West Virginia University, 2015-2016 Academic Year, April 2016 Robert and Wynona Wilkins Scholarship Award, Outstanding MA History Student, West Virginia University, 2013-2014 Academic Year, April 2014
Service: History Graduate Student Association, President, West Virginia University, Fall 2016-Spring 2017 History Graduate Student Association, Treasurer, West Virginia University, Fall 2015-Spring 2016 Graduate Student Representative, Undergraduate Committee West Virginia University History Department, Fall 2015-Spring 2016 National History Day, Volunteer Judge, West Virginia State Competition, 2016-2018 National History Day, Volunteer Judge, Pittsburgh Regional Competition, 2016
Organizations and Affiliations:
American Historical Association Society of Civil War Historians Pennsylvania Historical Association National Council on Public History