Megan Nelson

Assistant Professor
Department of History

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Teaching interests: American Cultural History, Nineteenth-Century American History, Environmental History, History of the American South, The American Civil War

Research interests: Relationships between communities and local environments, war and identity, popular memory of the Civil War. Book project: *Flesh and Stone: Ruins and the Civil War*, which investigates the role of environmental, natural, and corporeal ruins in Union and Confederate military strategy and in the popular memory of the conflict

Brief biography: MEGAN KATE NELSON is assistant professor of History, specializing in nineteenth-century American cultural history. She received her B.A. in History and Literature magna cum laude from Harvard University (1994) and her Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Iowa (2002). The University of Georgia Press published her book, *Trembling Earth: A Cultural History of the Okefenokee Swamp*, in April 2005. She is currently working on a new book entitled *Flesh and Stone: Ruins and the Civil War*, which investigates the role of architectural, natural, and corporeal ruins in military strategy and popular memory of the conflict. Dr. Nelson teaches undergraduate and graduate classes in Nineteenth-Century America, the American Civil War, Environmental History, the U.S. South, and Cultural History.