Joshua Wolf
Department of History
Education
Benedictine College 1020 N. 2 nd St., Atchison, KS 66002
[email protected]
Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
 Ph.D. History, 2015
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Fields of Study: US History, Military History, Atlantic World History
Passed Comprehensive Exams with Distinction
Dissertation: “The Misfortune to Get Pressed:” Impressment of American
Seamen and the Ramifications on the United States, 1793-1812.
East Stroudsburg University, East Stroudsburg, PA
 MA History, 2006
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Master’s Thesis: “As Good & Brave As Any Other: The XI Corps at the Battle
of Gettysburg”
Point Park University, Pittsburgh, PA
 BA Theatre, 2002
Teaching
Assistant Professor, Benedictine College, Atchison, KS
 August 2016
Adjunct Faculty, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
 2010 – 2015
Adjunct Faculty, Burlington Community College, Pemberton, NJ
 2013
Fellowships/ Academic Achievement Fellowship, Temple University Graduate School,
Awards
September 2014 – May 2015
United States Naval Academy McMullen Grant, September 2013
Russell F. Weigley Graduate Student Travel Grant, Society for Military History, May
2010
Graduate Fund for Excellence Research Grant, Temple University, March 2010
United States Military Academy Summer Seminar in Military History Fellowship, June
2009, West Point, New York.
Scholarly
“We Have Met the Enemy:” The Naval War of 1812, in The Routledge Handbook of
Publications American Military and Diplomatic History, Colonial Period to 1877, eds., Antonio
Thompson and Christos Frentzos, Routledge Press, 2014, 182-190.
“‛To Be Enslaved or Thus Deprived’: British Impressment, American Discontent, & the
Making of the Chesapeake-Leopard Affair, 1803-1807,” War & Society, Vol. 10, No. 1,
May 2010, 1-19.
Other
Book Review, Utmost Gallantry: The U.S. and Royal Navies at Sea in the War of 1812,
Publications by Kevin McCranie, H-Net Reviews, August 2012.
Book Review, Perlious Fight: America’s Intrepid War with Britain on the High Seas,
1812-1815, by Stephen Budiansky, Journal of the Early American Republic,
Spring 2012, Vol. 32.1.
Book Review, Steam Coffin: Captain Moses Rodgers and the Steamship Savannah
Joshua Wolf
Department of History
Benedictine College 1020 N. 2 nd St., Atchison, KS 66002
[email protected]
Break the Barrier, by John Laurence Busch, Louisiana History.
“Bower Hill, battle of; Fort Pitt; La Vengeance; Morris, Richard; Stanwix, John; USS
Experiment,” War of the Early American Republic Encyclopedia, Spencer Tucker, ed.,
(Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2012).
“Confronting a Paradox: Pacifism and Military History,” Strategic Visions Magazine,
Vol. 10, No. 1, Spring 2009.
“A Military Historian in a Social Setting,” Strategic Visions Magazine, Vol. 9, No. 1,
Spring 2008.
Papers
“’We Must Place Ourselves in an Attitude for War:’ Confrontations Between the United
States’ and Royal Navies Over Impressment, 1798-1812,” presented at the Naval History
Symposium, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, Sept. 2013.
“Against this Crying Enormity”: The Impressment of American Seamen and the War of 1812,”
presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Military History, Washington, DC, May 11,
2012, presented again at the From Enemies to Friends War of 1812 Conference, June 11, 2013.
“The President – Little Belt Affair: A Study in Causation,” presented at the Annual
Meeting of the Society for Military History, Lexington, VA, May 21, 2010.
“’To Be Enslaved or Thus Deprived’: British Impressment, American Discontent, & the
Making of the Chesapeake-Leopard Affair, 1803-1807,” presented at the Mid-Atlantic
Conference of British Studies, Richmond, VA, April 25, 2009.
Public
History
Lead Historian/Content Writer, American Maritime Artists War of 1812 Commemorative
website, merged with www.ourflagwasstillthere.org in December 2012.
Organizations Society for Military History
Southern Historical Association
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic
Honors
Eagle Scout, Boy Scouts of America, 1996
Phi Alpha Theta