Dr. Erin Stewart Mauldin, assistant professor in the Department of History and Politics at University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, will be the fourth lecturer in the annual Appalachian State University Department of History Civil War Speaker Series. She will give a public talk titled “Gone With the Land: The Environmental Consequences of the Civil War and Emancipation" on Tuesday, April 9, at 6 p.m. in Belk Library and Information Commons, Room 114.
Mauldin is an environmental historian of the 19th-century U.S. South whose work explores the intersection of race, economic inequality and environment. She received her Ph.D with distinction from Georgetown University in 2014 and her dissertation, “Unredeemed Land: The U.S. Civil War, Changing Land Use Practices and the Environmental Limitations of Agriculture in the South, 1840-1800,” won the Harold N. Glassman Award for Best Dissertation in the Humanities.
She is the author of “Unredeemed Land: An Environmental History of Civil War and Emancipation in the Cotton South” (Oxford, 2018) and the Co-Editor of the “Companion to Global Environmental History” (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012). Mauldin also serves as the Book Review Editor for Agricultural History and the Co-Editor of the Environmental History and the American South book series at the University of Georgia Press.
This event is part of the Civil War Speaker Series in the Department of History, housed in the College of Arts and Sciences at Appalachian State University. Dr. Judkin Browning, Professor of Civil War and Military History, designed the Series for scholars to give presentations on different aspects of the Civil War, helping the general public and campus community view and understand the conflict through new prisms.
For questions, contact Dr. Judkin Browning, Department of History at browningjj@appstate.edu. For more about the series, visit: https://history.appstate.edu/events/civil-war-speaker-series.
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Dr. Erin Stewart Mauldin headshot
Dr. Erin Stewart Mauldin headshot