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Matthew Hulbert

Civil War, Reconstruction, Guerrilla Warfare, Social Memory, Film History, New South Conservatism

Graduate Student
M.A., North Carolina State Univ., 2010

Office: 120 LeConte
Office Hours: M 10AM - 11AM
hulbertm@uga.edu

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Matthew Hulbert's research and writing explores the irregular side of Civil War memory--that is, how Americans have remembered, misremembered, and re-remembered narratives of guerrilla warfare and its most notorious antagonists in political rhetoric, historical scholarship, popular literature, and film. He currently serves as book review editor for The Civil War Monitor and as co-chair of the Southern Roundtable at UGA.

Research and Teaching Interests

[Africa]
[Cultural & Intellectual]
[Film and History]
[Transnational]
[U.S. 19th & 20th Century]
[U.S. South]

Dissertation

"Guerrilla Memory: Irregular Recollections from the Civil War Borderlands," supervised by Dr. John Inscoe (In Progress)

Selected Publications

"How to Remember 'This Damnable Guerrilla Warfare': Four Vignettes from Civil War Missouri," Civil War History 59, No. 2 (June 2013)

"William 'Bloody Bill' Anderson," Essential Civil War Curriculum (June 2012) More Info

"Constructing Guerrilla Memory: John Newman Edwards and Missouri's Irregular Lost Cause," The Journal of the Civil War Era 2, No. 1 (March 2012)

"Texas Bound and Down: An Untold Narrative of Missouri's Guerrilla War on Film," Journal of the West 50, No. 4 (Fall 2011)

Honors and Awards

Warner-Fite Scholarship in History, UGA Department of History, Presented annually to an outstanding graduate student in American History (2013)

Gregory Graduate Research Fellowship, UGA History Department (2013)

Hayek Fund Grant, Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University (2012)

Gregory Graduate Research Fellowship, UGA History Department (2012)

Frances S. Summersell Center Fellowship, Summersell Center for the Study of the South (University of Alabama) (2012)

Willson Center Graduate Research Award, Willson Center for Humanities and Arts (2012)

Presentation Travel Grant, Young Harris College (2011)

Gregory Graduate Research Fellowship, UGA History Department (2010)

Courses Taught

HIST2112: U.S. History 1865 to Present [Syllabus]