Below is an abbreviated sample of my employment, education, award, and publication history, along with a list of recent academic and public presentations I’ve delivered.
Private Tutor, History | 2025 – Present
Self-Employed
U.S. Air Forces in Europe-Air Forces Africa, 52d Fighter Wing | 2024 – 2025
Command Historian, Wing Staff
U.S. Army Combined Arms Center, Army University Press | 2019 – 2024
Historian, Research and Books Team
Instructor, Staff Ride Team
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 2014 – 2019
Graduate Instructor and Teaching Fellow
Mahn Center for Special Collections and Archives | 2011 – 2014
Ohio University Libraries, Assistant Archivist
United States Army | 2006 – 2010
Sergeant, Light Infantryman and Assault Team Leader
Ar Ramadi, Al Anbar, Iraq (A 1-9 IN, 2 BCT, 2 ID)
Zhari District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan (A 1-12 IN, 4 BCT, 4 ID)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 2016 – 2019
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in History
Advisor: Dr. Joseph T. Glatthaar
Dissertation: “Soldiers from Experience: The Emergence of Tactical Culture in Sherman’s Fifteenth Army Corps, 1862-63”
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 2014 – 2016
Master of Arts in History
Advisor: Dr. Harry L. Watson
Thesis: “Egyptian Darkness: Antebellum Reconstruction and Southern Illinois in the Republican Imagination, 1854-61”
Ohio University (Honors Tutorial College) | 2010 – 2014
Bachelor of Arts in History, Summa Cum Laude
Advisor: Dr. Brian Schoen
Thesis: “Decidedly Unmilitary: The Roots of Social Order in the Union Army”
Albert Castel Book Award (for Soldiers from Experience)
Col. Richard W. Ulbrich Memorial Book Award (for Soldiers from Experience)
2022 Civil War Books & Authors, Book of the Year (for Soldiers from Experience)
U.S. Army Gold Pen Award
U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, 2022
Raymond Faherty Award for Research in Military History
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2016
James K. and George C. Kyser Fellowship in History
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2015
Randolph Stone Essay Prize
“‘Not Only of Sight and Sound, But of Mind’: Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone in the Kennedy Era”
Ohio University, April 2014
George Washington Forum Fellowship
Ohio University, 2013 – 2014
Honors Tutorial College Research Apprenticeship
Dr. Brian Schoen
Ohio University, 2013
Carl Gustavson Scholarship
Ohio University, 2013
Frederick H. Boston Research Fellowship
Ohio University, 2013
Lorien Foote, Megan L. Bever, Eric Burke, J. P. Clark, Le’trice D. Donaldson, Shane Makowicki, Jennifer M. Murray, and Susannah J. Ural, “The Civil War and Its Place in Military History,” The Journal of the Civil War Era 15, no. 1 (Mar. 2025), 4-32.
Review of Earl Hess, July 22: The Civil War Battle of Atlanta (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2023). Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 122, no. 1 (Winter 2024), 126-127.
“The Viper and Tornado at 50 Years,” 52d Fighter Wing, Public Affairs, 27 May 24.
Review of Earl Hess, Civil War Field Artillery: Promise and Performance on the Battlefield (Baton Rouge: Louisiana University Press, 2022). The Journal of the Civil War Era 14, no. 1 (Mar. 2024), 130-133.
Siren Songs: The Perils of Interwar Military Transformation. Leavenworth: Army University Press, 2024.
“Ignorar el fracas: El general DePuy y los peligros del escapism de entreguerras,” Military Review (Edición Hispanoamericana), Tercer Trimestre 2023, 42-61.
“Doctrine: le moment DePuy et ses effets sur l’agilité conceptuelle de l’US Army,” Défense et Sécurité Internationale, No. 89, Avril-Mai 2023, 24-27.
Soldiers from Experience: The Forging of Sherman’s Fifteenth Army Corps, 1862-63. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2023.
Co-Edited with Don Wright, Enduring Success: Consolidation of Gains in Large-Scale Combat Operations. Fort Leavenworth: Army University Press, 2022.
“Mopping Up: Consolidation of Gains in the Eighth Army Rear, 25th ID in South Korea, October 1950” in Eric M. Burke and Donald Wright, eds., Enduring Success: Consolidation of Gains in Large-Scale Combat Operations (Fort Leavenworth: Army University Press, 2022), 205-226.
Review of Christian B. Keller, ed., Southern Strategies: Why the Confederacy Failed (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2021), Journal of Southern History, Forthcoming, Spring 2022.
Review of Kristopher A. Teeters, Practical Liberators: Union Officers in the Western Theater during the Civil War (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018), Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, Forthcoming.
Review of Earl J. Hess, Fighting for Atlanta: Tactics, Terrain, and Trenches (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018), Civil War History, Forthcoming.
Review of Robert M. Utley, The Commanders: Civil War Generals Who Shaped the American West (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2018), Western Historical Quarterly 50, no. 1 (2019), 69-70.
Review of Christopher Phillips, The Rivers Ran Backward: The Civil War and the Remaking of the American Middle Border (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), Journal of Military History 81, no. 4 (2017), 1169-1171.
Review of Aaron Astor, The Civil War Along Tennessee’s Cumberland Plateau (Charleston: The History Press, 2015), The Tennessee Historical Quarterly, Summer 2016.
Review of Denise A. Spellberg, Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an: Islam and the Founders (New York: Knopf, 2013), Traces 4 (2016), 189-191.
“The beginning of encyclopedias on CD-ROM,” CD-ROM One Click, One Story Exhibition Program, Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH), June 18, 2026.
“The Emotional Rhetoric of Battle: Toward a Global History of Infantry Combat, 1850-1880,” 2026 Society for Military History Annual Meeting, March 27, 2026.
“The Military Encyclopedia in the German Confederation, 1815-1871,” 2025 Military History Consortium (MHC) Annual Conference, June 6, 2025.
“Von Aachen biz Zündnadelgewehr: Military Encyclopedism in the Deutscher Bund, 1815-1871,” 2025 Society for Military History Annual Meeting, March 27, 2025.
“Ignoring Failure: Interwar Escapism in the Post-Vietnam U.S. Army, 1973-1976,” 2024 Society for Military History Annual Meeting, April 21, 2024.
“A Tale of Three Assaults: Towards a Transnational Cultural History of Mid-Nineteenth Century Infantry Combat,” 2023 Society for Military History Annual Meeting.
Roundtable: “New Perspectives in Civil War Military History,” 2022 Society of Civil War Historians Conference, June 3, 2022.
Triangle Institute for Security Studies (TISS) Annual Conference, 2018, Chapel Hill, NC. Panelist, Nuclear Security and International Relations.
“Uncle Billy’s Boys: The Fifteenth Army Corps and the Evolution of William T. Sherman, 1862-63,” 2018 Society of Civil War Historians Conference, June 2, 2018.
“Charting the Landscape of Military Culture” Panel, 2018 Society for Military History Annual Meeting, April 6, 2018.
“‘The discordant elements which go to make up our armies’: Regimental Culture in Sherman’s Fifteenth Army Corps, 1862-1863,” 2018 Society for Military History Annual Meeting, April 6, 2018.
Triangle Institute for Security Studies (TISS) Annual Conference, 2017, Chapel Hill, NC. Panelist, U.S. World War II Military History.
“‘Not Only of Sight and Sound, But of Mind: Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone in the Kennedy Era,” Eighth Annual Ohio University Undergraduate History Conference, April 17, 2014.
“Honor Enough: The Reconstruction of Identity at the Battle of Shiloh,” Seventh Annual Ohio University Undergraduate History Conference, April 18, 2013.
“Soldering and Weaponry,” Civil War Curious (Podcast), Civil War Monitor, July 8, 2025.
“Civil War Tactical Culture,” Untold Civil War (Podcast), August 14, 2024.
“Meet the Author: Eric Michael Burke,” Institute for Military History, Kansas State University, November 9, 2023.
“Soldiers from Experience,” Civil War Talk Radio (Podcast), February 1, 2023.
“Consolidating Gains in Large-Scale Combat Operations,” Breaking Doctrine (Podcast), Combined Arms Doctrine Directorate, May 1, 2022.
“Popular Narratives and the Experience of War: A Veterans’ Public Forum,” UNC English & Comparative Literature Department, Veterans Writing Workshop, April 27, 2019.
“‘Just in from the Mississippi’: Sherman’s 15th Corps in the Chattanooga Campaign,” Emerging Scholars Lecture Series, Chattanooga-Chickamauga National Military Park, March 9, 2019.
“‘Western Character’ and the Union Army,” Conversations from Studio B Radio Interview, WOUB Athens, Ohio. Original Air Date: May 2014.
“Decidedly Unmilitary: Social order and Discipline in the Union Army,” Conversations from Studio B Radio Interview, WOUB Athens, Ohio. Original Air Date: April 2014.
“Ohio at Shiloh,” Athens County Civil War Roundtable, February 12, 2014.
“PTSD and Civilian Life,” Conversations from Studio B Radio Interview, WOUB Athens, Ohio. Original Air Date: July 28, 2013.
“The Trauma of War, PTSD, and Going Home,” Athens County Emergency Responder Crisis Intervention Training. November 14, 2012.
“Techniques in Tracing [Civil War] Genealogy,” Conversations from Studio B Interview, WOUB Athens, Ohio. Original Air Date: October 7, 2012.
“Embryo Heroes: Finding Company H, 111th Illinois Infantry Volunteer Infantry,” Athens County Civil War Roundtable, June 13, 2012.
“Letters from the Front: A Local Family’s Civil War Correspondence,” Conversations from Studio B Radio Interview, WOUB Athens, Ohio. Original Air Date: September 4, 2011.