CURRICULUM VITAE
12-01-2014
Kathryn Shively
205 811 S. Cathedral
History Department, VCU
804-828-9714
EDUCATION:
University of Virginia
Ph.D. U.S. History, May 2010
Dissertation: “‘No Place for the Sick’: Nature’s War on Civil War Soldier Health in 1862 Virginia,” advisor Gary W. Gallagher
M.A. U.S. History, August 2006
University of California, Berkeley
B.A. English, concentration in poetry, May 2002
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS:
Assistant Professor of History, Virginia Commonwealth University, Fall 2013-present
Assistant Professor of History, University of Scranton, Fall 2010-Spring 2013
Instructor, University of Virginia, Fall 2009
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
a.Books
Nature’s Civil War: Common Soldiers and the Environment in 1862 Virginia (University of North Carolina Press, 2013). Winner of the Wiley-Silver Book Prize and Edward M. Coffman First-Manuscript Prize.
Introduction, Letters Home to Sarah: The Civil War Letters of Guy Carlton Taylor (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2012).
b.Book Chapters
“‘I Told Him to Go On’: Enduring Cold Harbor,” in Cold Harbor to the Crater: Episodes of War in Virginia in 1864, eds. Gary W. Gallagher and Caroline E. Janney (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, forthcoming fall 2015).
“Stonewall Jackson’s Chancellorsville Portrait,” in Lens of War, eds., J. Matthew Gallman and Gary W. Gallagher (Athens: University of Georgia Press, April 15, 2015).
“U.S. Sanitary Commission Physicians and the Transformation of American Health Care,” in “So Conceived and So Dedicated”: Intellectual Life in the Civil War Era North, eds., Lorien Foote and Kid Wongsrichanalai (New York: Fordham University Press, April 1, 2015).
“‘The Man Who has Nothing to Lose’: Environmental Impacts on Civil War Straggling in 1862,” in The Blue, The Gray, and The Green, eds. Stephen Berry and Brian Drake (University of Georgia Press, January 15, 2015).
“War and Environment,” in A Companion to the Civil War: Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History, ed. Aaron Sheehan-Dean (New York: Wiley, 2014), 561-572.
“‘Devoted to Hardships, Danger, and Devastation’: The Landscape of Indian and White Violence in Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania, from 1753 to 1800,” in Blood in the Hills: A History of Violence in Appalachia, ed. Bruce Stewart (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2011), 53-79.
“Fighting in ‘Dante’s Inferno’: Changing Perceptions of Civil War Combat in the Spotsylvania Wilderness from 1863 to 1864,” in Militarized Landscapes: From Gettysburg to Salisbury Plain, ed. Peter Coates, Tim Cole, and C.J. Pearson (London: Continuum, 2010), 39-56.
c.(a) Scholarly Journal Articles
“The Rise of Public Health in Human and Animal Care during the American Civil War,” Le Mouvement Social, solicited forMay 2015.
“Military Engagement with Nature in the American Civil War,” South Central Review, special Civil War issue, solicited forFebruary 2015.
Co-authored with Kristen Yarmey, “Connecting to the Civil War: Students as Contributors to Local History,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography and Pennsylvania History, January 2015.
Co-authored with Gary W. Gallagher, “Coming to Terms with Civil War Military History,” The Journal of the Civil War Era, 4 (December 2014):487-509.
“‘No Place for the Sick’: Nature’s War on Civil War Soldier Mental and Physical Health in the 1862 Peninsula and Shenandoah Valley Campaigns,” The Journal of the Civil War Era 1 (June 2011): 176-206.
Co-authored with Rachel Shapiro, “Creating Community with the History Engine: Connecting Teachers, Librarians, Students, and Scholars,” American History Association Perspectives on History (May 2009).
(b) Popular Articles and Websites
“The Lost Boys,” Civil War Monitor 2 (September 2012): 46-53, 70-71.
“Civil War Soldiers,” CWPA 150 Website, celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War in Pennsylvania, 2011.
“Weather During the Civil War,” Encyclopedia Virginia, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, 2010.
d.Reviews
Review, Soldiering for Freedom: How the Union Army Recruited, Trained, and Deployed the U.S. Colored Troops by Bob Luke and John David Smith, forthcoming spring 2015.
Review, Jubal Early: Robert E. Lee’s Bad Old Man by Benjamin Franklin Cooling, III, Civil War History, forthcoming spring 2015.
Review, Music Along the Rapidan: Civil War Soldiers, Music, and Community during Winter Quarters, Virginia by James A. Davis, Civil War Monitor, December 2014,
Review, "The Union's Most Defensive General" of Lincoln and McClellan at War by Chester G. Hearn, Reviews in American History, 42 (March 2014).
Review, “A Punishment on the Nation”: An Iowa Soldier Endures the Civil War by Brian Craig Miller, Civil War History, 59 (December 2013).
Review, Ruin Nation: Destruction and the American Civil War by Megan Kate Nelson, Environmental History, 18 (2013).
Reviews, War Upon the Land: Military Strategy and the Transformation of Southern Landscapes During the American Civil War by Lisa M. Brady, for Kentucky Historical Society,110, (Summer/Autumn 2012), and The Journal of the Civil War Era, 3, (June 2013).
Review, Huts and History: The Historical Archeology of Military Encampment During the American Civil War, by Clarence R. Geier, et al. and Civil War Weather in Virginia, by Robert K. Krick, H-CivWar, (December 3, 2010).
Review, The Life and Times of John Brown Baldwin, 1820-1873: A Chronicle of Virginia’s Struggle with Slavery, Secession, Civil War, and Reconstruction, by John R. Hildebrand, The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 117(Number 2).
Review, Where Have All the Soldiers Gone? The Transformation of Modern Europe, by James J. Sheehan, The Virginia Quarterly Review (2008).
AWARDS, GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND OTHER HONORS:
VCU Humanities Center Fellowship, Spring 2015
Wiley-Silver Book Prize, best first book in Civil War history, awarded by University of Mississippi Center for Civil War Research, 2014
University of Scranton President’s Fellowship, held jointly with my student mentee, Alex Barbolish, Summer 2013
Edward M. Coffman First-Manuscript Prize, awarded by Society for Military History, 2011
American Swiss Foundation Young Leader, 2011
Novel Pedagogy Grant, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Scranton, 2011
Sustainability Workshop Grant, University of Scranton, Summer 2011 and 2012
Library Literacy Teaching Grant, University of Scranton, Fall 2011
Faculty Development Grant, University of Scranton, Winter 2010-11
Suzanne and Caleb Loring Civil War Fellowship, Massachusetts Historical Society and Boston Athenaeum, 2009
Gilder Lehrman Fellowship, New York Public Library, 2009
Robert J. Huskey Grant, University of Virginia, 2008 and 2009
Lettie Pate Whitehead Scholarship, University of Virginia Women’s Center, 2009
Travel Grant, University of Bristol, UK, 2008
PROFESSIONAL PAPERS, CONFERENCES, AND LECTURES:
(a) Academic
“Nature’s Civil War,” chair: April Holmes, The Center for Civil War Research Conference, University of Mississippi, October 10, 2014
“Beyond Horse Sense: Veterinary Science as Environmental-Health Management in the Civil War,” chair: Timothy Silver, The Society of Civil War Historians, upcoming June 2014
“Wrecked, Wounded, Widowed,” panel commentator, The Society of Civil War Historians, upcoming June 2014
“‘Death in the Breeze’: The U.S. Sanitary Commission and the Democracy of Health Care,” at “Massachusetts and the Civil War: The Commonwealth and National Disunion,” Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA, April 2013
“An International Dialogue on Bodies During the U.S. Civil War,” chair: Louis Masur, American Historical Association, New Orleans, LA, January 2013
Co-presented with Kristen Yarmey, “The Practical Historian: Uniting Digital History, Service Learning, and Job Shadowing in the University Classroom,” Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, Baltimore, MD, July 2012
Chair, “Making Nature Strategic: Landscapes of Modern Warfare,” American Society for Environmental History, Madison, WI, March 2012
“Interpreting Images: Tips for Working with Visual Sources,” moderator: Kathryn Morse, American Society for Environmental History, Madison, WI, March 2012
“‘The Man Who has Nothing has Nothing to Lose’: Environmental Impacts on Civil War Straggling in 1862,” chair: Emory Thomas, “Uncivil Wars,” University of Georgia, October 2011
“‘Devoted to Hardships, Danger, and Devastation’: The Landscape of Indian and White Violence in Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania, from 1753 to 1800,” chair: Patrick Griffin, Organization for American Historians, Washington, DC, April 2010
“Under the Surge of the Blue: Environmental Effects on Civil War Soldier Mental and Physical Health,” chair: Lisa Brady, American Society for Environmental History, Tallahassee, FL, February 2009
“‘Fighting in “Dante’s Inferno:’ Changing Perceptions of Civil War Combat in the Spotsylvania Wilderness from 1863 to 1864,” chair: Peter Coates, Militarized Landscapes Conference, University of Bristol, UK, September 2008
(b) Public
“Campaigning with Lee,” Virginia Center for Civil War Studies, upcoming May 2015
“Nature’s Civil War: Common Soldiers and the Environment in 1862 Virginia,” Banner Lecture at Virginia Historical Society, August 14, 2014
“The 1864 Valley Campaign and the Origins of Jubal Early’s Lost Cause,” and “Psychological Warfare in the 1864 Overland Campaign,” Civil War Institute, Gettysburg, PA, June 2014
“Nature’s Civil War: Common Soldiers and the Environment in 1862 Virginia,” The Filson Historical Society, March 11, 2014
“Bridging the Nature/Culture Divide: Interpreting the Environmental History of the War,” moderator: Stephen Berry, The Future of Civil War History, Gettysburg College, PA, March 2013
“Soldier Self Care in the 1862 Shenandoah Valley and Peninsula Campaigns,” Civil War Institute, Gettysburg, PA, June 2012
C-Span: “Medicine in the Civil War,” 2011
Public Access TV: “Environmental Justice for the 21st Century,” 2011, Scranton, PA
Boston Athenaeum: “Under the Surge of the Blue: Environmental Effects on Civil War Soldier Mental and Physical Health,” August 2009
Massachusetts Historical Society: “Under the Surge of the Blue: Environmental Effects on Civil War Soldier Mental and Physical Health,” July 2009
COURSES TAUGHT:
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Virginia Commonwealth University, 2013-
Graduate Research Seminar in Civil War Era (fall 2014)
Graduate readings seminar in Civil War and Reconstruction (spring 2014)
Graduate Advisor, Masters’ Degree in History
Ante-bellum America (spring 2014)
Civil War and Reconstruction (fall 2013, fall 2014)
American Military History, 1600-1900 (fall 2013)
Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Scranton, 2010-2013
The Civil War and Reconstruction
Lincoln and the Civil War (Senior Seminar)
Age of Jackson
American History to 1877
American History from 1877
Craft of the Historian (Historical Methods)
Instructor, Department of History, University of Virginia, 2009
The American Soldier, the Environment, and Society, 1600-1865
Thesis Advisor, University of Virginia, Undergraduate Degree in History
SERVICE IN THE PROFESSION:
Appointed to board of editors, Civil War History, 2015-2020
Guest Editor, Journal of the Civil War Era (“Coming to Terms with Military History”)
Referee, University of Alabama Press
Referee, Journal of Social History
Referee, Cambridge University Press
Referee, Journal of the Civil War Era
Referee, Civil War History
Referee, Journal of American History
Referee, Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
Memberships:
The Society of Civil War Historians, 2010-present
American Historical Association, 2009-present
American Society for Environmental History, 2007-2012
The Society for Military History, 2010-2011
The Organization of American Historians, 2006-2011
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