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G. David Schieffler 1 University of Arkansas • Dept. of History 416 North Campus Dr. • Old Main Bldg. 416 Fayetteville, AR 72701-1201 • (479)-466-5756 [email protected] EDUCATION_________________________________________________________________ 2017 Ph.D. History, University of Arkansas Diss.: “Civil War in the Delta: Environment, Race, and the 1863 Helena Campaign” Adviser: Daniel E. Sutherland, Distinguished Professor of History Comp fields: U.S. to 1877, U.S. since 1877, Ancient Greece and Rome, Civil War Era Community Studies 2005 M.A. History, University of Arkansas 2003 B.A. History, summa cum laude, Sewanee: The University of the South PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT_______________________________________________ 2018-Pres. Crowder College, Instructor (beginning Aug. 2018) 2012-2018 University of Arkansas, Instructor of Record 2009-2018 Northwest Arkansas Community College, Adjunct Instructor 2005-2011 West Fork High School (West Fork, AR), History Teacher PUBLICATIONS______________________________________________________________ Refereed Journal Articles “Timber, Torrents, and the Trans-Mississippi Mud March: Teaching Environmental History Using the 1863 Helena Campaign,” The History Teacher, forthcoming in vol. 52 (2018-2019) “The Helena Campaign,” Essential Civil War Curriculum, Virginia Center for Civil War Studies, Virginia Tech University, forthcoming Book Reviews Forthcom. John C. Waugh, Lincoln and the War’s End (Southern Illinois University Press, 2014), for American Nineteenth Century History 2017 Mark M. Smith, The Smell of Battle, The Taste of Siege: A Sensory History of the Civil War (Oxford University Press, 2015), for Southern Historian 38 (Spring 2017): 93-94 Schieffler 1 2017 John G. Maxwell, The Civil War Years in Utah: The Kingdom of God and the Territory That Did Not Fight (University of Oklahoma Press, 2016), for The Journal of Military History 81 (January 2017): 230-232 2016 Joseph M. Beilein, Jr. and Matthew C. Hulbert, eds., The Civil War Guerrilla: Unfolding the Black Flag in History, Memory, and Myth (University Press of Kentucky, 2015), for Louisiana History 57 (Fall 2016): 476-479 2016 Joseph P. Byrd, Confederate Sharpshooter Major William E. Simmons: Through the War with the 16th Georgia Infantry and 3rd Battalion Georgia Sharpshooters (Mercer University Press, 2016), for The Civil War Monitor 2016 Patricia A. Donohoe, ed., The Printer’s Kiss: The Life and Letters of a Civil War Newspaperman and His Family (Kent State University Press, 2014), for Society of Civil War Historians Newsletter, Summer 2016 2016 Harold Holzer and Sara Vaughn Gabbard, eds., 1863: Lincoln’s Pivotal Year (Southern Illinois University Press, 2013), for American Nineteenth Century History 17 (March 2016): 114-116 2015 Jonathan Fetter-Vorm and Ari Kelman, Battle Lines: A Graphic History of the Civil War (Hill and Wang, 2015), for The Civil War Monitor 2015 Mark W. Summers, The Ordeal of the Reunion: A New History of Reconstruction (University of North Carolina Press, 2014), for the Arkansas Historical Quarterly 74 (Summer 2015): 191-193 2015 Richard A. Serrano, Last of the Blue and Gray: Old Men, Stolen Glory, and the Mystery that Outlived the Civil War (Smithsonian Books, 2013), Civil War History 61 (March 2015): 99-101 2014 Jim Downs, Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction (Oxford University Press, 2012), for Essays in History 2014 Philip Leigh, ed., Sam Watkins’s Co. Aytch, or a Side Show of the Big Show (Westholme Publishing, 2013), for The Civil War Monitor 2013 James A. Davis, “Bully for the Band!”: The Civil War Letters and Diary of Four Brothers in the 10th Vermont Infantry Band (McFarland, 2012), for The Civil War Monitor TEACHING AWARDS_________________________________________________________ 2016 Matthew B. Kirkpatrick Award for Excellence in History Graduate Teaching, University of Arkansas 2008 Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History for History Teachers, “The Era of George Washington,” Brown University Schieffler 2 2006 Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History for History Teachers, “American Civil War: Origins and Consequences, Battlefields and Homefront,” University of Virginia GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS____________________________________________________ 2018 Daniel E. Ferritor Travel Award, History Department, University of Arkansas 2017 History Lecturer Research Leave, University of Arkansas 2016 Michael Schoenecke Travel Grant, American Culture Association 2016 Lecturer Travel Grant, History Department, University of Arkansas 2015 Diane D. Blair Fellowship in Southern History, University of Arkansas 2015 Mary Hudgins Endowed Scholarship, University of Arkansas 2013-2016 Mary Hudgins Arkansas History Research Award, University of Arkansas 2012-2014 Doctoral Student Travel Grant, Graduate School, University of Arkansas 2003-2005 James Madison Memorial Fellowship INVITED CAMPUS TALKS_____________________________________________________ 2017 “Remembering the Civil War: Monuments and Memory,” Arkansas in the Civil War Symposium, Northwest Arkansas Community College 2017 “The Natural Environment’s Role in the American Civil War,” Middle Georgia State University, Macon CONFERENCE ACTIVITY_____________________________________________________ Papers Presented 2018 “Unwriting the Freedom Narrative in the Trans-Mississippi: Contraband Camps at Helena, Arkansas, during the Civil War,” Society for Military History at the Missouri Valley History Conference, Omaha, NE 2017 “A ‘sickly, pestilential, crowded post’: The Blurred Boundary between Slavery and Freedom at Helena, Arkansas, during the Civil War,” 11th Annual Conference on the Civil War, Center for Civil War Research, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS 2017 “Terrain, Torrents, and the Trans-Mississippi Mud March: Nature’s Decisive Role in the Helena Campaign,” Arkansas Historical Association, Pocahontas, AR Schieffler 3 2016 “Timber, Torrents, and Terrain: Nature’s Decisive Role in the 1863 Helena Campaign,” Society of Civil War Historians, Chattanooga, TN 2016 “‘Hell-in-Arkansas’: Environment and the 1863 Helena Campaign,” American Culture Association, Seattle, WA 2015 “Teaching Environmental History Using the 1863 Helena Campaign,” Arkansas Association of College History Teachers, Little Rock, AR 2015 “‘The Demon of War’: Phillips County, Arkansas, in 1865,” Arkansas Historical Association, West Memphis, AR 2014 “Truman’s Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb: A Historiographical Update,” Southwestern Historical Association, San Antonio, TX 2013 “‘We Go To Retake It’: Nature and the Confederate Convergence on the Union Garrison at Helena, Arkansas,” Missouri Valley History Conference, Omaha, NE 2012 “‘Too Important a Place to Risk’: Helena’s Strategic Location on the Mississippi River and Multi-Faceted Role in the Union Military Strategy,” Missouri Valley History Conference, Omaha, NE Moderator 2018 “Furniture, Forts, and Frontier Justice,” Arkansas Historical Association, Fort Smith, AR PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS____________________________________________________ 2018 “Contested Memories of the American Civil War,” Bella Vista Public Library, Bella Vista, AR 2016 “Environmental History and the 1863 Helena Campaign,” Northwest Arkansas Civil War Roundtable, Springdale, AR 2015 “Three Things Your High School Teacher Probably Didn’t Teach You about the American Civil War,” Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 2015 “Lincoln’s Foothold in the South: Phillips County, Arkansas, 1865,” The Twenty- Sixth North Arkansas Ancestor Fair, Searcy County Historical Society, Marshall, AR 2014 “Three Things Your High School Teacher Probably Didn’t Teach You about the American Civil War,” The Society of Former Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Ozark Chapter, Fayetteville, AR 2014 “The Lost Cause and Civil War Memory,” Bella Vista Fly Tiers, Bella Vista, AR Schieffler 4 2007 “The Will to Combat: The Common American Civil War Soldier,” Northwest Arkansas Civil War Roundtable, Springdale, AR 2006 “Too Little, Too Late to Save Vicksburg: The Battle of Helena, Arkansas, July 4, 1863,” Northwest Arkansas Civil War Roundtable, Springdale, AR TEACHING EXPERIENCE____________________________________________________ Crowder College, Neosho, MO (beginning Aug. 2018) U.S. History I U.S. History II University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR (2012-2018) Early National and Antebellum America History of the American People to 1877 History of the American People to 1877, Online History of the American People, 1877-Pres. Honors Institutions and Ideas of World Civ. I Institutions and Ideas of World Civ. I Northwest Arkansas Community College, Bentonville, AR (2009-2018) History of the American People to 1877 History of the American People to 1877, Online History of the American People Since 1877 History of the American People Since 1877, Online Western Civ. to 1650, Online Courses Prepared to Teach American Civil War & Reconstruction American Founders and the Ancients PROFESSIONAL SERVICE_____________________________________________________ Manuscript Reviewer, The History Teacher, 2018-Pres. Northwest Arkansas Civil War Heritage Trails, Humanities Scholar, 2012-2018 UNIVERSITY SERVICE________________________________________________________ “Adopt-a-Professor” Program, University of Arkansas Housing, 2014-2018 Faculty Liaison, Early College Experience Program, Northwest Arkansas Community College, 2012- 2013 Schieffler 5 COMMUNITY SERVICE_____________________________________ A.P.