Stefan Lund
Office Hours: Wednesday 1:30-3:30 (virtual) and by appointment
Field & Specialties
History of the Civil War Era
Nineteenth Century Political and Cultural History
American Legal History
Education
B.A. Oberlin College, 2016
M.A. University of Virginia, 2019
Publications
"Inexcusable by us as Soldiers: Wartime Dissent and the 1863 Keokuk Soldier Mob," Annals of Iowa 80 (Summer 2021)
Sources for Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War (Oxford University Press, 2020), co-edited with Elizabeth R. Varon
Book Reviews:
H-War, 'From Quills to Tweets: How America Communicates about War and Revolution'
Current Research
Dissertation research concerns the motives and practice of press censorship in the Civil War North.
Master's Thesis: "Cowardly and Incendiary Partisans": Soldier Mobs, Loyalty, and the Democratic Press in the Civil War
Awards & Honors
2020-2021 Teaching Relief Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Virginia
2019-2020 J. Carl Sewell III Graduate Research Fellow in Civil War History, University of Virginia
2019 Filson Fellow, Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky
2018 Student Award for Detail and Quality, Symposium on the Nineteenth Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga
2016 George and Carrie Life Award for Excellence in History of the Americas, Oberlin College
Courses Taught
EXCO 106 History of the American Civil War (Oberlin College Experimental College Program, Fall 2014)
HIUS 3071 The Coming of the Civil War (TA, Fall 2018)
HIUS 3162 Digitizing America (TA, Spring 2019)
HIEU 3352 Modern Germany (TA, Fall 2019)
HIUE 3161 Viewing America (TA, Spring 2020)
HIST 3281 Genocide (TA, Fall 2020)
Media Appearances
"Soldier Mob in Keokuk: Violence Against the Press During the American Civil War," Iowa 101 Webinar Series, State Historical Museum of Iowa
Internet and Popular Press Publications
"William T. Sherman's Campaign Against Civil War Reporters," Nau Center for Civil War History Blog, September 2021