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Donald R. Shaffer Office: Professional Building 2A
Donald R. Shaffer received his Ph.D. in History from the University of Maryland, College Park, where he studied under Ira Berlin. Since then, Dr. Shaffer has held positions with the National Park Service, San Diego State University, SUNY Plattsburgh, the University of Wyoming, and the University of Northern Colorado. His scholarly work to date primarily addresses the experience of African Americans following the the U.S. Civil War (1861-65). Dr. Shaffer's first book, After the Glory: The Struggles of Black Civil War Veterans, was published in 2004 by the University Press of Kansas. It won the 2005 Peter Seaborg Award for Civil War Scholarship. Dr. Shaffer has since edited, with Elizabeth Regosin of St. Lawrence University, a primary source reader on Civil War pension files as they pertain to the experiences of former slaves. This publication, titled Voices of Emancipation, was published on May 2008 by NYU Press. He has just started a new project to document in Civil War pension files African-American perspectives on the Fort Pillow Massacre which occurred in Tennessee in April 1864. Dr. Shaffer also has articles which have appeared in the academic journal Civil War History; the anthology, Southern Families at War, edited by Catherine Clinton for Oxford University Press; and the anthology Union Soldiers and the Northern Home Front: Wartime Experiences, Postwar Adjustments, edited by Paul A. Cimbala and Randall M. Miller for Fordham University Press. Dr. Shaffer gave his most recent conference paper at the 2010 meeting of the American Historical Association in San Diego, California, related to his current project on the Fort Pillow Massacre. He also has delivered other papers in the past at the annual meetings of the American Historical Association, Organization of American Historians, Southern Historical Association, Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, and the Society for Military History. Dr. Shaffer was the keynote speaker for "Understanding the African American Civil War Experience," the second annual conference on the Civil War hosted by the University of Mississippi in 2006. In addition, Dr. Shaffer has participated in significant academic gatherings. In June 2008, he traveled to Yale University in New Haven, Conn. for the Slave Narratives Seminar. He was only one of only 35 CIC faculty nationally chosen for this event. In July 2008, he attended the annual Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Dr. Shaffer also has been a fellow at the 2005 West Point Summer Seminar in Military History at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y. In addition, he has been a participant at the Black History Workshop put on by the University of Houston; the Conference on African Americans in the Civil War at Virginia State University; and at "Frontlines: Gender, Identity, and War" sponsored by Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. For more information about Donald Shaffer, please check out his personal website. Spring 2010, Term 2 Office Hours: MTR, 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. and by appointment. Courses for Spring 2010, Term 2:
Dr. Shaffer has taught/is teaching the following courses at UIU:
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