Gettysburg College names new director of Civil War Institute
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Gettysburg College has named Peter Carmichael its new director of the Civil War Institute and Robert Fluhrer Professor of Civil War Studies.
Carmichael is currently the Eberly Family Professor of Civil War Studies at West Virginia University. Michael Birkner, who is the Benjamin Franklin Professor of the Liberal Arts and a professor of history, has served as interim director for the Civil War Institute since Gabor Boritt, who was the founding director, retired in 2009.
"The Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College occupies an important place in thought about and study of the American Civil War," said Gettysburg College's Interim Provost James White. "As the CWI's new director, Dr. Peter Carmichael, a noted historian of this epic conflict, will nurture and advance the Institute and work to make its programs ever better."
"I am very excited about the Civil War Institute and building on this incredible legacy of Gabor Boritt," said Carmichael. "There's no other place like Gettysburg College to be a public intellectual and where you can bring together students, scholars and the public to study the Civil War. I have visited here numerous times, but to think about this place to live in and to teach is extraordinary. I am honored."
Carmichael has published a number of books, most recently a study of Southern college students during the Civil War era, "The Last Generation: Young Virginians in Peace, War, and Reunion (2005)." He is currently researching the experience and wartime representation of Confederate slaves, and how the mythical idea of loyal African Americans defending the South animates current cultural wars over "Southern heritage." Carmichael earned a doctorate and a master's from the Pennsylvania State University, and a bachelor's degree from Indiana University-Purdue University in Indianapolis.
For over 28 years, The Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College has hosted visiting educators and students, sponsored conferences, lectures, concerts, and movie premieres, as well as other educational programs on Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. Each summer, the CWI hosts hundreds of Civil War enthusiasts, scholars and prominent historians for an annual conference in Gettysburg. The Institute also co-sponsors the annual Dedication Day, Nov. 19, which is the anniversary of Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address," with the Lincoln Fellowship of Pennsylvania and the Gettysburg National Military Park. CWI also co-sponsors and publishes the annual Robert Fortenbaugh Lecture. In addition, the institute coordinates the annual Michael Shaara $5,000 Book Prize for Civil War fiction.
Founded in 1832, Gettysburg College is a highly selective four-year residential college of liberal arts and sciences with a strong academic tradition that includes Rhodes Scholars, a Nobel laureate and other distinguished scholars among its alumni. The college enrolls 2,600 undergraduate students and is located on a 200-acre campus adjacent to the Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania.
Eight faculty members earn tenure at Gettysburg College
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Nine Gettysburg College faculty members were recently granted tenure by the College's Board of Trustees based on their teaching, research, and involvement outside the classroom.
John Cadigan is an assistant professor of economics. His research focuses on game theory, experimental methods, and political economy. He teaches current issues in economics, introduction to economics, and econometrics. Cadigan earned a Ph.D. in economics from Indiana University at Bloomington.
Felicia Else is an assistant professor of visual arts. She has extensive research on one of the most prominent public works in Florence, Ammannati's Neptune Fountain (1560-1574) in the Piazza della Signoria. She is currently researching connections between art and science in the portrayal of the marine world. Else earned a Ph.D. in art history from Washington University in St. Louis.
Sunghee Kim is an assistant professor of computer science. Her research interests include computer graphics, visualization, perception, and user interface design. Kim earned a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Minnesota.
Nathalie Lebon is an assistant professor of women, gender, and sexuality studies. She has published research and done fieldwork in Portuguese on economic development, social movements, and nongovernmental organizations in Brazil. She teaches feminism in global perspective and gender and change in Africa and Afro-Latin America. Her Ph.D. in anthropology is from the University of Florida.
Voon Chin Phua is an assistant professor of sociology. His research examines the effects of the intersections of sexuality, race, and immigration, and has a broad geographic coverage, including the U.S., Singapore, Korea, Iceland, Brazil, and Romania. He teaches criminology, data analysis and statistics, global sexualities, and Chinese demographics from a global perspective. Phua received a Ph.D. in sociology from Brown University.
Rutherford Platt is an assistant professor of environmental studies and director of the college's geographic information systems (GIS) laboratory. He specializes in spatial models of human-environment interactions and his current work focuses on modeling wildfire hazard and land use change in the western United States. Platt earned a Ph.D. from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Rajmohan Ramanathapillai is an assistant professor of philosophy and peace and justice studies. His interest in teaching social, political, and environmental philosophy evolved from his experience growing up in war-torn Sri Lanka. His courses include Beyond Terrorism, Gandhi and Philosophy, International Human Rights, Cultures of War and Peace, and Philosophy of Peace and Nonviolence. He also serves as a member of Noble Peace Prize Nomination Committee for the American Friends Service Committee. Ramanathapillai earned a Ph.D. from McMaster University in Ontario.
Kevin Wilson is an assistant professor of psychology. His research combines functional brain imaging (fMRI) with more traditional behavioral measures to study higher-level visual cognition. He teaches Introductory Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Psychology, and Experimental Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, and serves as co-coordinator of the neuroscience minor. Wilson earned a Ph.D. in experimental psychology at the University of Pennsylvania.
Founded in 1832, Gettysburg College is a highly selective four-year residential college of liberal arts and sciences with a strong academic tradition that includes Rhodes Scholars, a Nobel laureate and other distinguished scholars among its alumni. The college enrolls 2,600 undergraduate students and is located on a 200-acre campus adjacent to the Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania.
Posted 3/29/10
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