Amy Murrell Taylor Associate Professor M.A., Ph.D. University of Virginia A.B. Duke University 060C Social Sciences Department of History University at Albany, SUNY 1400 Washington Avenue Albany, New York 12222 Phone: (518) 442-5379 Fax: (518) 442-5301 murrell@albany.edu

Teaching: Undergraduate Courses: HIS 100: American Social & Political History I HIS 101: American Social & Political History II HIS 310: History of Women in the United States HIS 390R: Women, Men, and Family in America HIS 390: Workshop in Digital History HIS 390: The U.S. South Faculty Advisor, Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society Graduate Courses: HIS 530: Workshop in Digital History HIS 621: Readings in Local & Regional History HIS 603/639: Readings in U.S. Women's & Family History HIS 603: Readings in 19th Century U.S. History HIS 603/639: Readings in the U.S. Civil War Era HIS 603/628: End of Slavery in History and Memory HIS 609Q/622: Seminar in U.S. Local & Regional History Select Publications: Co-editor with Michael Perman, Major Problems in the Civil War and Reconstruction, 3rd ed. (Houghton-Mifflin, forthcoming) The Divided Family in Civil War America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005) Review Essay, "Revisiting Lincoln and Emancipation," Reviews in American History, (December 2006) “Union Father, Rebel Son: Families and the Question of Civil War Loyalty,” in Joan Cashin, ed. The War Was You and Me: Civilians in the American Civil War (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002) “‘Of Necessity and Public Benefit’: Southern Families and Their Appeals for Protection,” in Catherine Clinton, ed. Southern Families at War: Loyalty and Conflict in the Civil War South (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000) “The ‘Impossible’ Prince Edward Case: The Endurance of Resistance in a Southside, Virginia County, 1959-64,” in Matthew Lassiter and Andrew Lewis, eds The Moderates' Dilemma: Massive Resistance to School Desegregation in Virginia (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998). Select Awards/Honors: American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 2008-2009 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2008-2009 (deferred to 2009-2010) Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching Service, 2007 Current Research Interests: I am currently starting a new book project on the subject of emancipation during the U.S. Civil War which will offer a social history of slave runaways and refugee (or "contraband") camps. My research interests also include media and history, having worked formerly as the associate director of the Virginia Center for Digital History, and as a production and research assistant on the PBS film series, "The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow."