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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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COMMUNITY SERVICE______
A.P. U.S. History Exam Reader, Tampa, FL, 2017-2018
National History Day Judge, 2014-2018
Adopt-A-Classroom Program, University of Arkansas Education Renewal Zone, 2016
A.P. World History Exam Reader, Salt Lake City, UT, 2015
Battle of Fayetteville Sesquicentennial, Interpretive Guide, 2013
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS______
Society of Civil War Historians Arkansas Historical Association
Southern Historical Association Phi Beta Kappa
NONACADEMIC WORK______
Music Columnist, The Free Weekly (Fayetteville, AR), 2015-2017
REFERENCES______
Daniel E. Sutherland Patrick G. Williams Distinguished Professor of History Professor of History University of Arkansas University of Arkansas Fayetteville, AR 72701 Fayetteville, AR 72701 (479)-575-5881 (479)-575-5899 [email protected] [email protected]
Greg Kiser Elliott West Professor of History and Dept. Chair Distinguished Professor of History Northwest Arkansas Community College University of Arkansas Bentonville, AR 72712 Fayetteville, AR 72701 (479)-619-4227 (479)-575-5885 [email protected] [email protected]
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