ERIN STEWART MAULDIN, PH.D.

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1 CURRICULUM VITAE ERIN STEWART MAULDIN, PH.D. / Samford University / 800 Lakeshore Drive, Birmingham, AL EDUCATION ecstewar@samford.edu / PhD, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY (Environmental History) 2014, awarded with distinction Dissertation: Unredeemed Land: The U.S. Civil War, Changing Land Use, and the Environmental Limitations of Agriculture in the South, Advisor: J.R. McNeill Comprehensive Exams, passed with distinction: Global Environmental History, U.S. History, Atlantic History, and Environmental Science M.A., GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY 2010 B.A., SAMFORD UNIVERSITY 2007 Major: History, Minor: Biology, summa cum laude PUBLICATIONS Edited Volumes Co-editor, Companion to Global Environmental History 2012 Wiley-Blackwell Press Monographs Unredeemed Land: Confronting the Ecological Legacies of the Civil War and Emancipation, at Oxford University Press Under review Book Chapters and Articles The Stockman s War: Hog Cholera in Nineteenth-Century Alabama, [forthcoming] 2017 accepted at The Alabama Review, Special Issue: The Environment Freedom, Economic Autonomy, and Ecological Change in the [forthcoming] 2017 Cotton South, , accepted at The Journal of the Civil War Era

2 Environmental History of the United States, pp , in 2012 Companion to Global Environmental History, Wiley-Blackwell Press Co-author, Global Environmental History: An Introduction, pp. xvi-xxiv, in 2012 Companion to Global Environmental History, Wiley-Blackwell Press Book reviews Review of Brian Allen Drake, ed., The Blue, The Gray, and the Green: [forthcoming] 2016 Toward an Environmental History of the Civil War in Civil War History Review of Robin O Sullivan, American Organic: A Cultural History 2016 of Farming, Gardening, Shopping, and Eating for H-Net Environment, June 2016 digest Review of Adam Wesley Dean, An Agrarian Republic: 2016 Farming, Antislavery Politics, and Nature Politics in the Civil War Era in The Journal of Southern History 82, no. 2 Review of Frank Uekotter, ed., Comparing Apples, Oranges, and 2015 Cotton: Environmental Histories of the Global Plantation in Agricultural History 89, no. 4 Review of Kathryn Shively Meier, Nature s Civil War, 2014 in The Society for Civil War Historians Newsletter 27, no. 4 Review of Nancy Unger, Beyond Nature s Housekeepers: 2014 American Women in Environmental History in History: A Review of New Books 42, no. 1 TEACHING AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Assistant Professor, SAMFORD UNIVERSITY Classes taught: Landscapes of the American South U.S. History since 1865 Global Perspectives (World History since 1500) The Historian s Craft War and the Environment Communication Arts (writing and public speaking) Directed Independent Studies Directed Internships 2015-Present Instructor, SAMFORD UNIVERSITY and Core Curriculum Mauldin 2

3 Graduate Research Fellow, SAMFORD UNIVERSITY 2012 Office of the University Historian Research Assistant, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY 2010 Center for Australian and New Zealand Studies Teaching Assistant, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY Local and Global Food Systems Introduction to Environmental Science European Civilization World History TEACHING FIELDS U.S. Environmental History Atlantic World Global Environmental History Composition and Public Speaking 19 th -Century U.S. History Environmental Studies PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Book Review Editor, Agricultural History, beginning 2017 Editorial Board, Agricultural History, beginning 2017 Journal Referee, Southern Spaces, 2016 Chair and Commentator, Deep South Plantations Panel, Agricultural History Society Annual Meeting, New York City, New York, June 23-25, 2016 Organizer and Host, Southern Forum for Agricultural, Rural, and Environmental History s Ninth Annual Meeting, Samford University, Birmingham, AL, April 15-16, 2016 Journal Referee, Nineteenth Century Studies, 2015 Chair and Commentator, National Parks Panel, New Pathways in the Environmental History of North America, sponsored by The Filson Society, Louisville, KY, October 8-10, 2015 Chair and Commentator, Invasive Species Panel, Agricultural History Society Annual Meeting, Lexington, KY, June 4-6, 2015 Chair and Commentator, Civil War Era Panel, the Sixth Annual Conference on Power and Struggle, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, October 25, 2014 Mauldin 3

4 CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED LECTURES False Hope in the Cotton Belt: Abandoned Lands after the Civil War, part of a roundtable on Wastelands, delivered at the Agricultural History Society Annual Meeting, New York City, New York, June 23-25, 2016 Environmental Aspects of the Civil War, delivered to New Horizons, a multidisciplinary faculty lecture series at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, September 30, 2015 Freedom and Ecological Change in the Cotton South, delivered at the St. George Tucker Society Annual Meeting, Savannah, GA, July 23-25, 2015 A Nakedness of Livestock : Hog Cholera and the Question of Self-Sufficiency on Southern Farms, , delivered at the Agricultural History Society Annual Meeting, Lexington, KY, June 4-6, 2015 Labor and Its Discontents: Contract Disputes, Ecological Change, and the Migration of Freedpeople from Rural Spaces in the Postbellum South, delivered at the Richards Center for Civil War Studies Third Annual Emerging Scholars Workshop, Pennsylvania State University, April 24-25, 2015 The Environmental Consequences of Economic Autonomy in the Post-Emancipation South, , delivered at the Southern Forum on Agricultural, Rural, and Environmental History, Mississippi State University, April 10-11, 2015 The Stockman s War: Livestock, Agricultural Reform, and the Fight to Maintain the Commons during the Civil War Era, delivered to the Society for Civil War Historians Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, June 12, 2014 Unredeemed Land: Exploring the Ecological Legacies of the Civil War in Southern Agriculture, delivered at the Center for the History of Agriculture, Environment, and Science Workshop for Southern Environmental History, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS, May 22, 2014 The Ecology of Emancipation: Disease, Changing Land Use Priorities, and the Legacies of the American Civil War, delivered at the American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, April 6, 2013 Gone with the Land: The Ecological Legacies of the Civil War, delivered at the Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting, Charlotte, North Carolina, November 6, 2010 Cleaning Up Washington: Canals, Cholera, and Temperance in Washington D.C., delivered at the Phi Alpha Theta Mid-Atlantic Conference, Delaware State University, March 2009 A Man-Made Night: Birmingham s Struggles with Smoke, delivered at the Phi-Alpha Theta Southeastern Conference, Troy University, April 2007 Mauldin 4

5 FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS Harold N. Glassman Award for Best Dissertation, Georgetown University, 2016 The University s highest accolade given to recent doctoral alumni Honorary Geographer, Department of Geography, Samford University, 2016 Award for services to Southern Environmental History Virginia Historical Society Andrew Mellon Research Fellowship, 2015 Georgetown University Environmental History Graduate Fellowship, Piepho Research Grant, Georgetown University, 2011 Hisham Shirabi Graduate Paper Prize, Georgetown University, 2009 Awarded for the best paper by any graduate student in the academic year Best Graduate Paper Prize, Phi Alpha Theta Mid-Atlantic Conference, 2009 UNIVERSITY SERVICE Communication Arts First Year Seminar Task Force, 2016 Judge, Cultural Perspectives Essay Contest, 2016 Judge, Communication Arts Speech Contest, 2016 Founding participant, Interdisciplinary Writer s Workshop, Samford University, 2016 Latin American Studies Program Committee, 2014-Present Communication Arts Faculty Workshop Co-Organizer, Faculty Representative for Recruitment Events, 2013-Present Faculty Advisor to History Majors, Samford University, 2012-Present University History Committee, Samford University, 2012-Present University Core Curriculum Textbook Committee, Curriculum Creation Committee, Environmental Studies Minor, Samford University, 2013 Judge, Hisham Shirabi Graduate Paper Prize, Georgetown University, 2010 and 2011 Graduate President, Phi Alpha Theta, Georgetown University, Graduate Studies Committee,, Georgetown University, PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS American Society for Environmental History Southern Historical Association Society for Civil War Historians Agricultural History Society Mauldin 5

6 LANGUAGE SKILLS French: intermediate reading, intermediate writing, conversational speaking proficiency Spanish: beginner reading, beginner writing, beginner speaking proficiency REFERENCES Dr. John R. McNeill Professor, Georgetown University ICC 600, 37 th and O Streets NW Washington, DC mcneillj@georgetown.edu Dr. Chandra Manning Special Advisor to the Dean The Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University 10 Garden Street Fay House, Suite 200 Cambridge, MA chandra_manning@radcliffe.harvard.edu Dr. Rosemary Fisk Associate Dean and Professor of English Howard College of Arts and Sciences Samford University 800 Lakeshore Drive Birmingham, AL rmfisk@samford.edu Confidential letters of recommendation are available via Interfolio on request Mauldin 6