Notes on Contributors
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EILEEN M. ANGELINI, Professor of French at Canisius College, recipient of a 2016 Fulbright Specialist award to the University of Manitoba and of a 2010–2011 Canada-U.S. Fulbright award as a Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Globalization and Cultural Studies at McMaster University and named Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques in August 2011, received her B.A. in French from Middlebury College and her M.A. and Ph.D. in French Studies from Brown University. She presents frequently at national and regional conferences and is the author of publications on literary analysis and on interdisciplinary connections between foreign language and history/social science/English curricula.
MARISOL BULACIO-WATIER is a Master’s candidate in English at Florida Atlantic University. Her primary field of research and scholarship is African American literature, specifically Toni Morrison, and southern literature. Her current topic of research considers the narratives of identity, home, memory, and national history in Toni Morrison’s novel, Home.
ANDRE FLECHE is Associate Professor of History at Castleton University. He holds a particular interest in transnational and global approaches to the past, and he has published essays and articles on several aspects of America’s Civil War. His first book, The Revolution of 1861: The American Civil War in the Age of Nationalist Conflict (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012), received the Southern Historical Association’s James A. Rawley Award.
LORIEN FOOTE is Professor of History at Texas A&M University. She is the author of two books, most recently The Gentlemen and the Roughs: Manhood, Honor, and Violence in the Union Army (2010), which was a finalist and Honorable Mention for the 2011 Lincoln Prize. Her next book, The Yankee Plague: Escaped Union Prisoners and the Collapse of the Confederacy, will be published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2016.
BARBARA A. GANNON is currently an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Central Florida. She is the author of The Won Cause: Black and White Comradeship in the Grand Army of the Republic (UNC Press, 2011), which received the Wiley-Silver Prize (2012) for the best first book on the Civil War. She is currently working on an examination of American veterans, 1783–2003.
KATHRYN SHIVELY MEIER is Assistant Professor of History at Virginia Commonwealth University, where she specializes in military and environmental history of the Civil War. Her first book, Nature’s Civil War: Common Soldiers and the Environment in 1862 Virginia (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013), was 2014 winner of the Wiley-Silver Book Prize and 2011 winner of the Edward M. Coffman First-Manuscript Prize. [End Page 93]
BRIAN CRAIG MILLER is an Associate Professor and Associate Chair of History at Emporia State University. He is also the editor of the journal Civil War History. Miller is the author of several publications, including Empty Sleeves: Amputation in the Civil War South (Athens: University of Georgia, 2015) and John Bell Hood and the Fight for Civil War Memory (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2010). He is currently writing a book about Walt Disney and Civil War Memory.
PRESTON WALTRIP is a graduate student at Texas Christian University, currently working toward his M.A. in English. His thesis project, tentatively titled, “Bare Life and Permitted Violence in U.S.-Mexico Border Fiction,” utilizes concepts from Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, and Judith Butler to examine depictions of gendered and racial violence in the fiction of Cormac McCarthy, Carmen Boullosa, and Roberto Bolaño. [End Page 94]
