My guest is Professor Anne Sarah Rubin and our subject is the “Myths of Southern Secession,” in the 150th year since the start of the American Civil War.


Anne Sarah Rubin is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.  Her book A Shattered Nation: The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy (UNC, 2005) received the 2006 Avery O. Craven Award from the Organization of American Historians, for the most original book on the Civil War era.  She was a co-author of the award-winning Valley of the Shadow, an interactive history of the Civil War in two communities.  She is currently working on a multi-media study of the memory of Sherman's March, entitled Through the Heart of Dixie:  Sherman's March and America, for which she received a 2007 ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowship.  She graduated with a BA from Princeton University and was awarded an MA and PhD from the University of Virginia.

Committees Chaired:  University Research Council (2005-2006); Public History Search (2005-2006),  Department Graduate—acting Graduate Program Director (Spring 2006), Michelle Scott Promotion and Tenure, 2007, Acting Library Liaison (Fall 2007), Graduate Program Director (2009-2011).

Committee Memberships: Department Public History, Department Student Relations, Department Information and Technology, Department Undergraduate, Department Graduate, University Research Council, University IT Steering, University Ad Hoc Committee on Graduate Self Study, University Humanities Forum, Library Steering Committee Visiting Assistant Professor, American University, September 1998 to May 2000.  Project Manager for the Valley of the Shadow:  Two Communities in the American Civil War, June 1993-September 1996.

Awards and Fellowships
2010 UMBC Special Research Fund
2008 ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowship
2006 Avery O. Craven Award from the Organization of American Historians
University of Maryland, Baltimore County Summer Faculty Fellowship, 2001
University of Maryland, Baltimore County Arts and Sciences Faculty Fellowship, 2001
Sole runner-up for the Allan Nevins Prize, given annually by the Society of American Historians
for the best dissertation in American history, 1999.
North Caroliniana Society, Archie K. Davis Fellowship, 1998.
University of Virginia Alumni Dissertation Fellowship, 1997-1998.
University of Virginia Southern History Program Fellowship, 1997-1998.
Virginia Historical Society, Mellon Research Fellowship, 1996.

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