{"id":150,"date":"2020-05-22T15:46:50","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T19:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ericmichaelburke.com\/?page_id=150"},"modified":"2026-08-21T07:58:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T11:58:00","slug":"curriculum-vitae","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ericmichaelburke.com\/?page_id=150","title":{"rendered":"Curriculum Vitae"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
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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.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

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Private Tutor, History<\/a> |<\/strong> 2025 – Present<\/em>
<\/strong>Self-Employed<\/p>\r\n

U.S. Air Forces in Europe-Air Forces Africa, 52d Fighter Wing<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>|\u00a02024 – 2025
<\/em>Command Historian, Wing Staff<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

U.S. Army Combined Arms Center, Army University Press <\/strong><\/a>| 2019 – 2024<\/em>
Historian, Research and Books Team
Instructor, Staff Ride Team<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill <\/strong><\/a>| 2014 – 2019<\/em>
Graduate Instructor and Teaching Fellow<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Mahn Center for Special Collections and Archives<\/strong><\/a> | 2011 – 2014<\/em>
Ohio University Libraries, Assistant Archivist<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

United States Army<\/strong> | 2006 – 2010<\/em>
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)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill <\/strong>| 2016 – 2019<\/em>
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in History<\/strong>
Advisor: Dr. Joseph T. Glatthaar
Dissertation: “Soldiers from Experience: The Emergence of Tactical Culture in Sherman’s Fifteenth Army Corps, 1862-63”<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | <\/strong>2014 – 2016<\/em>
Master of Arts in History<\/strong>
Advisor: Dr. Harry L. Watson
Thesis: “Egyptian Darkness: Antebellum Reconstruction and Southern Illinois in the Republican Imagination, 1854-61”<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Ohio University (Honors Tutorial College)<\/strong> | 2010 – 2014<\/em>
Bachelor of Arts in History, Summa Cum Laude<\/em><\/strong>
Advisor: Dr. Brian Schoen
Thesis: “Decidedly Unmilitary: The Roots of Social Order in the Union Army”<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Albert Castel Book Award\u00a0<\/strong>(for\u00a0Soldiers from Experience<\/em>)<\/p>\r\n

Col. Richard W. Ulbrich Memorial Book Award<\/strong> (for\u00a0Soldiers from Experience<\/em>)<\/p>\r\n

2022 Civil War Books & Authors, Book of the Year\u00a0<\/strong>(for\u00a0Soldiers from Experience<\/em>)<\/p>\r\n

U.S. Army Gold Pen Award
<\/strong>U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, 2022<\/p>\r\n

Raymond Faherty Award for Research in Military History<\/strong>
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2016<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

James K. and George C. Kyser Fellowship in History<\/strong>
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2015<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Randolph Stone Essay Prize<\/strong>
“‘Not Only of Sight and Sound, But of Mind’: Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone<\/em> in the Kennedy Era”
Ohio University, April 2014<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

George Washington Forum Fellowship<\/strong>
Ohio University, 2013 – 2014<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Honors Tutorial College Research Apprenticeship
<\/strong>Dr. Brian Schoen
Ohio University, 2013<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Carl Gustavson Scholarship<\/strong>
Ohio University, 2013<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Frederick H. Boston Research Fellowship<\/strong>
Ohio University, 2013<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Lorien Foote, Megan L. Bever, Eric Burke, J. P. Clark, Le\u2019trice D. Donaldson, Shane Makowicki, Jennifer M. Murray, and Susannah J. Ural, \u201cThe Civil War and Its Place in Military History,\u201d The Journal of the Civil War Era<\/em> 15, no. 1 (Mar. 2025), 4-32.<\/p>\r\n

Review of Earl Hess, July 22: The Civil War Battle of Atlanta<\/em> (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2023). Register of the Kentucky Historical Society<\/em> 122, no. 1 (Winter 2024), 126-127.<\/p>\r\n

\u201cThe Viper and Tornado at 50 Years,\u201d 52d Fighter Wing, Public Affairs, 27 May 24.<\/p>\r\n

Review of Earl Hess, Civil War Field Artillery: Promise and Performance on the Battlefield<\/em> (Baton Rouge: Louisiana University Press, 2022). The Journal of the Civil War Era<\/em> 14, no. 1 (Mar. 2024), 130-133.<\/p>\r\n

Siren Songs: The Perils of Interwar Military Transformation. <\/em><\/a><\/strong>Leavenworth: Army University Press, 2024.<\/p>\r\n

\u201cIgnorar el fracas: El general DePuy y los peligros del escapism de entreguerras,\u201d Military Review <\/em>(Edici\u00f3n Hispanoamericana<\/em>), Tercer Trimestre 2023, 42-61.

\u201cDoctrine: le moment DePuy et ses effets sur l\u2019agilit\u00e9 conceptuelle de l\u2019US Army,\u201d D\u00e9fense et S\u00e9curit\u00e9 Internationale<\/em>, No. 89, Avril-Mai 2023, 24-27.
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Soldiers from Experience: The Forging of Sherman’s Fifteenth Army Corps, 1862-63<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2023.<\/p>\r\n

Co-Edited with Don Wright,\u00a0Enduring Success: Consolidation of Gains in Large-Scale Combat Operations.<\/em><\/a> <\/strong>Fort Leavenworth: Army University Press, 2022.<\/p>\r\n

“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.,\u00a0Enduring Success: Consolidation of Gains in Large-Scale Combat Operations\u00a0<\/em>(Fort Leavenworth: Army University Press, 2022), 205-226.<\/p>\r\n

“Egyptian Darkness: Antebellum Reconstruction, ‘Republicanization,’ and Southern Illinois in the Republican Imagination, 1854-1861,” Civil War History<\/em> Vol. 67, No. 3 (September 2021), 167-199.<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

“Facing the Enemy: The Crucible of Combat Forged Unique Unit Cultures within Civil War Regiments,” Civil War Times<\/em>, June 2019.<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Review of Christian B. Keller, ed.,\u00a0Southern Strategies: Why the Confederacy Failed\u00a0<\/em>(Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2021),\u00a0Journal of Southern History<\/em>, Forthcoming, Spring 2022.<\/p>\r\n

Review of David Silkenat, Raising the White Flag: How Surrender Defined the Civil War<\/em> (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019), Civil War Monitor<\/em>, Online.<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Review of Kristopher A. Teeters, Practical Liberators: Union Officers in the Western Theater during the Civil War<\/em> (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018), Register of the Kentucky Historical Society<\/em>, Forthcoming.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Review of Earl J. Hess, Fighting for Atlanta: Tactics, Terrain, and Trenches<\/em> (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018), Civil War History<\/em>, Forthcoming.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Review of Robert M. Utley, The Commanders: Civil War Generals Who Shaped the American West<\/em> (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2018), Western Historical Quarterly 50, no. 1<\/em> (2019), 69-70.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Review of Thomas W. Cutrer, Theater of a Separate War: The Civil War West of the Mississippi River, 1861-1865<\/em> (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017), Western Historical Quarterly<\/em> 49, no. 1 (2017), 121-122.<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Review of Christopher Phillips, The Rivers Ran Backward: The Civil War and the Remaking of the American Middle Border<\/em> (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), Journal of Military History<\/em> 81, no. 4 (2017), 1169-1171.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Review of Timothy Smith, Grant Invades Tennessee: The 1861 Battles of Forts Henry and Donelson<\/em> (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2016), Ohio Valley History<\/em> 17, no. 3 (2017), 89-91.<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Review of Aaron Astor, The Civil War Along Tennessee’s Cumberland Plateau<\/em> (Charleston: The History Press, 2015), The Tennessee Historical Quarterly<\/em>, Summer 2016.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Review of Denise A. Spellberg, Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an: Islam and the Founders<\/em> (New York: Knopf, 2013), Traces 4 (2016), 189-191.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Review of Adam Wesley Dean, An Agrarian Republic: Farming, Antislavery Politics, and Nature Parks in the Civil War Era<\/em> (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015), H-War, H-Net Reviews, July 2015.<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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\u201cThe beginning of encyclopedias on CD-ROM,\u201d CD-ROM One Click, One Story <\/em>Exhibition Program, Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH), June 18, 2026.<\/p>\r\n

\u201cThe Emotional Rhetoric of Battle: Toward a Global History of Infantry Combat, 1850-1880,\u201d 2026 Society for Military History Annual Meeting, March 27, 2026.<\/p>\r\n

\u201cThe Military Encyclopedia in the German Confederation, 1815-1871,\u201d 2025 Military History Consortium (MHC) Annual Conference, June 6, 2025.<\/p>\r\n

\u201cVon Aachen biz Z\u00fcndnadelgewehr: Military Encyclopedism in the Deutscher Bund, 1815-1871,\u201d 2025 Society for Military History Annual Meeting, March 27, 2025.<\/p>\r\n

\u201cIgnoring Failure: Interwar Escapism in the Post-Vietnam U.S. Army, 1973-1976,\u201d 2024 Society for Military History Annual Meeting, April 21, 2024.<\/p>\r\n

\u201cA Tale of Three Assaults: Towards a Transnational Cultural History of Mid-Nineteenth Century Infantry Combat,\u201d 2023 Society for Military History Annual Meeting.<\/p>\r\n

Roundtable: \u201cNew Perspectives in Civil War Military History,\u201d 2022 Society of Civil War Historians Conference, June 3, 2022.<\/p>\r\n

“Pioneering Freedom: Measuring the Operational Contributions of Freedmen to the 15th A.C. during the Vicksburg Campaign,” 2019 Society for Military History Annual Meeting, May 2, 2019.<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Triangle Institute for Security Studies (TISS) Annual Conference, 2018, Chapel Hill, NC. Panelist, Nuclear Security and International Relations.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

“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.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

“Charting the Landscape of Military Culture” Panel, 2018 Society for Military History Annual Meeting, April 6, 2018.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

“‘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.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Triangle Institute for Security Studies (TISS) Annual Conference, 2017, Chapel Hill, NC. Panelist, U.S. World War II Military History.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

“‘Not Only of Sight and Sound, But of Mind: Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone<\/em> in the Kennedy Era,” Eighth Annual Ohio University Undergraduate History Conference, April 17, 2014.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

“Honor Enough: The Reconstruction of Identity at the Battle of Shiloh,” Seventh Annual Ohio University Undergraduate History Conference, April 18, 2013.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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\u201cSoldering and Weaponry,\u201d Civil War Curious (Podcast), Civil War Monitor<\/em>, July 8, 2025.<\/a><\/p>\r\n

\u201cCivil War Tactical Culture,\u201d Untold Civil War (Podcast), August 14, 2024.<\/a><\/p>\r\n

\u00a0\u201cMeet the Author: Eric Michael Burke,\u201d Institute for Military History, Kansas State University, November 9, 2023.<\/p>\r\n

\u201cMWI War Council: Yom Kippur War Anniversary,\u201d Modern War Institute at West Point, United States Military Academy (USMA), October 16, 2023.<\/a><\/p>\r\n

\u201cSoldiers from Experience,\u201d Civil War Talk Radio (Podcast), February 1, 2023.<\/a><\/p>\r\n

\u201cConsolidating Gains in Large-Scale Combat Operations,\u201d Breaking Doctrine (Podcast), Combined Arms Doctrine Directorate, May 1, 2022.<\/p>\r\n

\u201cPopular Narratives and the Experience of War: A Veterans\u2019 Public Forum,\u201d UNC English & Comparative Literature Department, Veterans Writing Workshop, April 27, 2019.<\/p>\r\n

“‘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.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

“‘Western Character’ and the Union Army,” Conversations from Studio B Radio Interview, WOUB Athens, Ohio. Original Air Date: May 2014.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

“Decidedly Unmilitary: Social order and Discipline in the Union Army,” Conversations from Studio B Radio Interview, WOUB Athens, Ohio. Original Air Date: April 2014.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

“Ohio at Shiloh,” Athens County Civil War Roundtable, February 12, 2014.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

“PTSD and Civilian Life,” Conversations from Studio B Radio Interview, WOUB Athens, Ohio. Original Air Date: July 28, 2013.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

“Modern Warfare, Returning Home, Post Traumatic Stress and Its Treatment,” NAMI Lecture Series, Athens, Ohio. March 28, 2013.<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

“The Trauma of War, PTSD, and Going Home,” Athens County Emergency Responder Crisis Intervention Training. November 14, 2012.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

“Techniques in Tracing [Civil War] Genealogy,” Conversations from Studio B Interview, WOUB Athens, Ohio. Original Air Date: October 7, 2012.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

“Embryo Heroes: Finding Company H, 111th Illinois Infantry Volunteer Infantry,” Athens County Civil War Roundtable, June 13, 2012.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

“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.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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