PAUL QUIGLEY
Virginia Tech
Department of History
431 Major Williams Hall
Blacksburg, VA 24061-0117
(+1)540.231.9090
[email protected]
EMPLOYMENT
Virginia Tech, James I. Robertson, Jr. Associate Professor of Civil War Studies;
Director, Virginia Center for Civil War Studies (2013—)
University of Edinburgh, Lecturer in American History (2007—2013)
Duke University, Lecturer (2004, 2007)
Guilford College, Lecturer (2007)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Lecturer (2005—2006)
DEGREES
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of History,
Ph.D. (2006), MA (2001). Ph.D. dissertation: “Patchwork Nation: Sources of
Confederate Nationalism, 1848-1865.” Advisor: Prof. Harry L. Watson.
Lancaster University, U.K., American Studies, BA, First Class (1998)
GRANTS AND PRIZES
Albert Lee Sturm Award for Faculty Excellence, Virginia Tech (2014)
British Association for American Studies Book Prize (2012)
Jefferson Davis Award, Museum of the Confederacy (2012)
Honorable Mention, Deep South Book Prize (2012)
Carnegie Trust Research Grants (2011, 2012)
Finalist, BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinkers competition (2011)
Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship (2009—2010)
Doris Quinn Dissertation Completion Fellowship (2005—2006)
Robertson Scholars Grant, to fund Southern Studies Seminar (2005—2006)
William Gilmore Simms Research Fellowship (2005)
Short-Term Visiting Fellowship, Institute for Southern Studies (2005)
William R. Kenan, Jr. Fellowship (1999—2004)
Andrew Mellon Research Fellowships, Virginia Historical Society (2003, 2004)
Center for the Study of the American South Grant (2003)
George Mowry Dissertation Research Fellowship (2003)
PUBLICATIONS
Book
Shifting Grounds: Nationalism and the American South, 1848—1865. Oxford
University Press, 2011.
 Winner, British Association for American Studies Book Prize.
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Winner, Museum of the Confederacy’s Jefferson Davis Award.
Honorable Mention, Deep South Book Prize.
Peer-Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters
“Civil War Conscription and the International Boundaries of Citizenship,” Journal of
the Civil War Era, 4.3 (September 2014): 373-397.
“Slavery, Democracy, and the Problem of Planter Authority in the NineteenthCentury U.S. South,” in “Noble Means and Democratic Ways” special issue, Journal
of Modern European History 11 (2013/14): 514-532.
“State, Nation, and Citizen in the Confederate Crucible of War,” in State and Citizen:
British America and the Early United States, ed. Peter Onuf and Peter Thompson
(Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012), 242-270.
“Secessionists in an Age of Secession: The Slave South in Transatlantic
Perspective,” in Secession as an International Phenomenon, ed. Don H. Doyle
(Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2010), 151-173.
“Independence Day Dilemmas in the American South, 1848—1865,”
Journal of Southern History 75:2 (May 2009): 235-266.
“‘That History is Truly the Life of Nations’: History and Southern
Nationalism in Antebellum South Carolina,” South Carolina Historical Magazine
106:1 (Jan 2005): 7-33.
Book Reviews
Emotional and Sectional Conflict in the Antebellum United States, by Michael E.
Woods. Journal of the Civil War Era 5:3 (Sept 2015).
Ruined by this Miserable War: The Dispaches of Charles Prosper Fauconnet, a French
Diplomat in New Orleans, 1863-1868. Southwestern Historical Quarterly 118.3 (Jan
2015).
Confederate Visions: Nationalism, Symbolism, and the Imagined South in the Civil
War, by Ian Binnington. Civil War Monitor (Sept 2014).
Creating Citizenship in the Nineteenth-Century South, ed. by William A. Link, David
Brown, Brian Ward, and Martyn Bone. Journal of American History 101.1 (June
2014).
The Revolution of 1861: The American Civil War in the Age of Nationalist Conflict, by
Andre M. Fleche. Journal of American History 99.3 (Dec 2012).
Spain and the American Civil War, by Wayne Bowen. American Historical Review
117.4 (Oct 2012).
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Confederate Minds: The Struggle for Intellectual Independence in the Civil War South,
by Michael T. Bernath, Tennessee Historical Quarterly LXX: IV (Winter 2011).
The Fragile Fabric of Union: Cotton, Federal Politics, and the Global Origins of the
Civil War, by Brian Schoen. Journal of the Early Republic 31:2 (Summer 2011).
Distant Revolutions: 1848 and the Challenge to American Exceptionalism, by Timothy
Mason Roberts. Journal of Southern History 78:2 (May 2011).
The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and its Legacies, by Victoria E.
Bynum. Journal of American History 97:4 (March 2011).
Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South, by Stephanie
McCurry. Reviews in History (March 2011).
Wade Hampton: Confederate Warrior to Southern Redeemer, by Rod Andrew, Jr.
American Nineteenth-Century History 10:3 (2009).
The Civil War and the Limits of Destruction, by Mark E. Neely. War in History 16 (Nov
2009).
Fenians, Freedmen, and Southern Whites: Race and Nationality in the Era of
Reconstruction, by Mitchell Snay. Journal of Southern History 76:2 (May 2009).
Diehard Rebels: The Confederate Culture of Invincibility, by Jason Phillips. H-Civil War
(June 2008).
Troubled Commemoration: The American Civil War Centennial, 1961-1965. By Robert
J. Cook. North Carolina Historical Review 85 (2008).
Inside the Confederate Nation: Essays in Honor of Emory M. Thomas, edited by
Lesley J. Gordon and John C. Inscoe. H-Nationalism (Jan 2008)
Soldier of Southwestern Virginia: The Civil War Letters of Captain John Preston
Sheffey, ed. James I. Robertson. Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 113:1
(2005).
Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life in the Old South, by Michael O’Brien. Southern
Cultures 11:2 (Summer 2005).
The Confederate Belle, by Giselle Roberts. Journal of Mississippi History 66:4 (2004).
Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero, by Kate
Clifford Larson. Civil War Book Review (Summer 2004).
Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas, by Sally E. Hadden. Law
and History Review 22:2 (2004).
Jefferson Davis: The Essential Writings, ed. William J. Cooper, Jr. The Virginia
Magazine of History and Biography 111:2 (2003).
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Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil
War, by Charles B. Dew. South Carolina Historical Magazine 103 (April 2002).
The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina,
by Manisha Sinha. Southern Historian XXIII (Spring 2002).
The Simms Reader: Selections from the Writings of William Gilmore Simms, ed. John
Caldwell Guilds. American Nineteenth-Century History, III (Spring 2002).
A Fire-Eater Remembers, ed. William C. Davis. Southern Historian XXII (Spring 2001).
Religion and the American Civil War, eds. Miller, et.al. American Studies Today
(2001).
Other Publications
“Looking forward from Appomattox,” Roanoke Times, April 5, 2015.
“Why Civil War Americans Cared about Europe—and why Europeans Cared about the
American Civil War,” The American Civil War in a Global Context, ed. Peter N. Stearns
(Richmond, Va.: Virginia Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War Commission,
2015): 132-144.
“Y'all say aye: Scottish Independence and the American Civil War,” Roanoke Times,
September 24, 2014.
“Nationalism,” Blackwell Companion to the Civil War, ed. Aaron Sheehan-Dean
(Blackwell Publishing, 2014): 1056-1072.
“The Birth of Thanksgiving,” New York Times Disunion website, November 28, 2013.
“The Expulsion of the Consuls,” New York Times Disunion website, October 10, 2013.
“Social Class and Secession, the Confederacy, and the Civil War,” The New
Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, XX: Social Class (Chapel Hill: University of North
Carolina, 2012).
“No Real Heart Union,” berfrois.com, July 6, 2012.
“Showdown in the Atlantic,” New York Times Disunion website, November 7, 2011.
Participant, “Interchange: Nationalism and Internationalism in the Era of the
American Civil War,” Journal of American History 98.2 (September 2011): 455-489.
“America’s Birthday under Fire,” New York Times Disunion website, July 5, 2011.
“Refighting the Civil War, Yet Again: Virginia’s Confederate History Month Mêlée,”
American Nineteenth-Century History 11.3 (Sept 2010): 351-359.
“Teaching Secession and the Civil War in Scotland,” Journal of American History 96.4
(March 2010): 1123—1126.
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“Southern Discomfort,” Anniston Star, June 28, 2009.
“Confederate Nationalism” in Women in the American Civil War: An Encyclopedia,
ed. Lisa Tendrich Frank (ABC-CLIO, 2007).
“Tobacco’s Civil War: Images of the Sectional Conflict on Tobacco Package
Labels,” Southern Cultures 12: 2 (Summer 2006): 53-57.
“James Henry Hammond” in Southern Writers: A Biographical Dictionary, Revised
Edition, eds. Joseph Flora and Amber Vogel (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State
University Press, 2006).
INVITED ACADEMIC LECTURES
“Shifting Grounds: Nationalism and the American South, 1848—65,” Virginia Tech
Libraries Authors’ Day, February 24, 2015.
"Why Civil War Americans Cared about Europe—and why Europeans Cared about
the American Civil War." Keynote address at the 2014 Signature Conference of the
Virginia Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War Commission, The American Civil
War in a Global Context, May 31, 2014.
"Mapping the Fourth of July in the Era of the Civil War." Library In-service Day,
Virginia Tech, May 22, 2014.
“Internationalizing the Civil War.” The Future of Civil War History conference,
Gettysburg College, March 15, 2013.
“A Crisis of Nationalism: White Southerners and the American Civil War.” Honors
College, University of Alabama-Birmingham, November 1, 2012.
“Whose Fourth? Whose America? National Symbols and the American Civil War.”
Redefining Civil Wars conference, Swansea University, May 9, 2012.
“Foreign Conscription, the American Civil War, and the International Boundaries of
Citizenship.” American History Seminar, University of Cambridge, February 20, 2012.
“The American Civil War and the Transformation of Citizenship: Transatlantic
Perspectives.” The Transnational Significance of the American Civil War conference,
Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena, Germany, September 15, 2011.
“Death, Commemoration, and the Nation: The Confederate States of America.”
Death, Commemoration, and Memory Research Group, University of Edinburgh,
May 31, 2011.
“The American Civil War and the International Boundaries of Citizenship.” History
Department Seminar, University of London – Royal Holloway, March 8, 2011.
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“Confederate Conscription and the International Boundaries of Citizenship.”
American History Seminar, University of Oxford, February 1, 2011.
“'A Nation Among Nations'? The Confederate States of America and Transatlantic
Nationalism.” National University of Ireland-Galway, October 14, 2010.
“Secession and Confederate Nationalism in Transatlantic Perspective.” RandolphMacon College, Virginia, April 7, 2010.
“Sources of Confederate Nationalism.” Americas Research Group, Newcastle
University, April 30, 2008.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“The American Civil War and the Long Rise of Volitional Citizenship in the Atlantic
World,” Society of Civil War Historians (June 2014).
“Slavery, Democracy, and the Problem of Planter Authority in the NineteenthCentury American South,” European Congress on World & Global History (2011).
“A Nation Among Nations? The U.S. South and European nationalism in the MidNineteenth Century,” Middelburg Conference on the U.S. South and Europe (2011).
“Confederate Conscription and the International Boundaries of Citizenship,” Carolina
Center for the Lowcountry and Atlantic World, College of Charleston (2011).
“Union Savers: White Southern Opposition to Secession, 1860—61,” Filson Historical
Society Secessions Conference, Louisville, Kentucky (2010).
“Nationalism and Confederate History: Problems and Prospects,” The Historical
Society (2010).
“The Pinch of the Union in the 1850s South,” Southern Historical Association (2009).
“Teaching the Civil War outside the United States,” organizer and panelist,
American Historical Association (2009).
“'A Southern heart to beat with indignation at Southern wrongs': Victimhood
and Confederate Nationalism,” British-American Nineteenth Century Historians
(2008).
“Secessionists in an Age of Secession: The Slave South in Transatlantic
Perspective,” Association Research in Ethnicity and Nationalism in the Americas
(2007).
“The Particular and the Universal in Antebellum American Nationalism: The
View from the South,” The Historical Society (2006).
“A Nation Defined by War: Consolidation and Collapse in the Confederacy,”
American Historical Association (2006).
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“Gender and the Making of Confederate Nationalism,” Southern Historical
Association (2004).
“’The Glorious Day Surely Belongs to the South’: The Fourth of July in the
Southern States, 1848-1865,” British Association for American Studies (2004).
“Southern Nationalism Comes of Age: Ideas Into Practice, 1860-1861,” St.
George Tucker Society (2003).
“Southern Nationalism in Historical Perspective,” UNC Transnational South
Seminar (2001).
“Remembered Pasts, Imagined Futures: History and the Ideology of Southern
Nationalism in Antebellum South Carolina,” at ‘From Anti-Masonry to AntiCommunism: A Conference in Honour of Michael Heale’ (2000).
PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS
“The Civil War Origins of Thanksgiving.” Glencoe Museum, Radford, Va., November
19, 2015.
“The Civil War Origins of Thanksgiving.” Brandon Oaks Retirement Community,
Roanoke, Va., November 9, 2015.
“The Fourth of July 1865: Redefining America.” Pamplin Historical Park Annual
Symposium, October 18, 2015.
"William Ballard Preston and the Crisis of Secession.” Campaigning with Lee,
Richmond, Va., May 27, 2015.
“The International Impact of Lincoln and the Civil War.” Lincoln Group of
Washington, D.C., May 16, 2015.
"William Ballard Preston and the Crisis of Secession.” Giles County Historical Society,
Pearisburg, Va., April 28, 2015.
“The Civil War on the Homefront.” Remarks at unveiling of Molly Must mural,
Marlinton, WV, March 29, 2015.
“Preston Brooks: The Man behind the Cane.” Civil War Weekend, Blacksburg, Va.,
March 14, 2015.
“Lincoln’s Second Term.” Bath County (Va.) Public Library Civil War series, January
15, 2015.
"William Ballard Preston and the Crisis of Secession.” Botetourt County (Va.)
Historical Society, Founders’ Day Dinner, October 17, 2014.
“Why the Civil War Still Matters.” Virginia Tech CLAHS Staff Retreat, October 10,
2014.
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“Civil War History, Land Grant Style.” Virginia Tech CLAHS Dean’s Roundtable,
September 12, 2014.
"William Ballard Preston and the Crisis of Secession.” Preston Family Reunion,
Smithfield Plantation, August 9, 2014.
"Slavery in the Antebellum South.” Pamplin Historical Park teachers' workshop, July
14, 2014.
"The Confederacy's Foreign Conscripts.” Campaigning with Lee, Ashburn, Va., June
27, 2014.
“The Civil War and the World.” Blacksburg Rotary Club, May 1, 2014.
“The Image of the Yankee in Confederate Culture.” Civil War Weekend, Blacksburg,
Va., March 16, 2014.
“The Confederacy’s European Problem.” Blue-Gray Banquet, Clifton Forge, Va.,
February 27, 2014.
"Why Civil War Americans Cared about Europe—and why Europeans Cared about
the American Civil War." Roanoake Civil War Roundtable, January 14, 2014.
“The Civil War Origins of Thanksgiving.” Tall Oaks Talks series, Warm Hearth Village,
Blacksburg VA, November 22, 2013.
“The Civil War and the Fourth of July.” Campaigning with Lee, Ashburn, Va., June 26,
2013.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Editorial Board, Civil War History (2015--)
Advisory Board, American Civil War Museum (2014--)
Jefferson Davis Award prize committee (2014-2016)
Membership committee, Southern Historical Association (2014-2015)
Conference commentator, Remaking North American Sovereignty (2015), Branch
(2014)
External member, PhD dissertation committee, University of South Carolina (2014)
Grants referee, American Philosophical Society (2013)
PhD External Examiner, Cambridge University (2012)
Conference panel chair: SHA (2012), Branch (2012), SASA (2009, 2012), BAAS (2008)
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Manuscript referee: LSU Press (2015), University Press of Mississippi (2015),
Smithfield Review (2015), Ohio Valley History (2015), Virginia Magazine of History
and Biography (2015), Journal of the Civil War Era (2014, 2015), Eras Journal (2015),
Journal of Southern History (2014), Southern Cultures (2010, 2013, 2015), Tennessee
Historical Quarterly (2013, 2014), Cambridge University Press (2011), Continuum
(2011), Civil War History (2009), Palgrave McMillan (2009), American NineteenthCentury History (2008, 2009), Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism (2008), Pearson
Education (2008)
Membership Committee, Southern Historical Association (2010—2011)
Book Review Editor, H-Nationalism (2008—2013)
List Editor, H-Nationalism (2006—2013)
Associate Editor, Southern Cultures (2001—2006)
Co-organizer, UNC-Duke Southern Studies Seminar (2005—2006)
DEPARTMENT AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Virginia Tech:
CLAHS P&T Committee (2015--)
History Department Executive Committee (2014--)
CLAHS scholarship referee (2014)
History Department Graduate Committee (2013—)
University of Edinburgh:
Director, Online MSc in History (2012—2013)
Graduate Officer in History (2010—2013)
Director, MSc in American History (2008—09, 2010—2012)
Organizer, American History Workshop (2010—2013)
Graduate Recruitment Officer (2008—09)