David Silkenat
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David Silkenat | |
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| Born | |
| Alma mater | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| Occupation(s) | historian, author |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | History |
| Institutions | University of Edinburgh |
David Silkenat is an American historian, author and academic who specializes in the historiography of the American Civil War.
Biography
He was born and raised in New York City.[1]
Education
He completed his undergraduate degree in History from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.[1]
He completed his M.A. degree in history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.[1]
Career
For several years, he was a high school teacher of history in several schools of Florida.[1]
From 2008 to 2013, he taught at North Dakota State University in Fargo, North Dakota.[1]
He is currently a Professor of History at the University of Edinburgh, where he has supervised the doctoral dissertations of a number of talented students.[1]
Awards and honours
He is a two-time winner of the North Caroliniana Society Book Prize. He has served as the Chair of the Scottish Association for the Study of America.[2]
He also serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of the Civil War Era and American Nineteenth Century History.[2]
He was a recipient of the 2018-2019 SCRC Research Travel Grant.[2]
Bibliography
He is the author of a number of books:
- Moments of Despair: Suicide, Divorce, and Debt in Civil War Era North Carolina
- Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South
- Driven from Home: North Carolina's Civil War Refugee Crisis
- Raising the White Flag: How Surrender Defined the American Civil War