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1 NIELS EICHHORN and Political Science Middle Georgia State College (479) College Station Dr. Macon, GA EDUCATION Ph.D. University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, May 2013 Up Ewig Ungedeelt or A House Divided : Nationalism and Separatism in the Mid-Nineteenth Century Atlantic World directed by: Dr. Daniel Sutherland M.A. University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, May Reconsidered: United States-European Diplomacy during the Secession Year of the Civil War B.A. University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, December 2006 ACADEMIC WORK EXPERIENCE Middle Georgia State College, Macon, GA Assistant Professor,, August 2013-present University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR Graduate Instructor,, August 2009-August 2013 University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA Graduate Teaching Assistant, and Geography, January May 2008 PUBLICATIONS Books The Atlantic World during the Mid-Nineteenth Century, in preparation Nationalism and Separatism in the Late Revolutionary North Atlantic World: A Global Perspective on the Civil War, in preparation Articles North Atlantic Trade in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: A Case For Peace during the American Civil War, Civil War History (Forthcoming 2015). The Intervention Crisis of 1862: A British Diplomatic Dilemma? American Nineteenth Century History 15 (November 2014). Nationalism and Secession: A Global History of the American Civil War. The American Civil War in a Global Context, edited by Peter Stearns (Richmond: Virginia Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War Commission, Forthcoming 2014).

2 Teaching the Civil War Era in Global Context: A Discussion. With Robert Bonner, Sarah Cornell, Don Doyle, and Andre Fleche. Journal of the Civil War Era (Forthcoming). Die Hanseatische Gesandtschaft in Washington. Handel und Diplomatie während des Amerikanischen Bürgerkrieges, Die Hanseatisch-Amerikanischen Beziehungen seit 1790 (Forthcoming). The Rhine River: The Impact of the German States on Trans-Atlantic Diplomacy, Civil War- Global Conflict, edited by Simon K. Lewis and David Gleeson (Columbia, South Carolina Press, 2014). Teaching the Survey Non-Traditional Style. The History Teacher 46 (May 2013). Nationalliberalismus, Sezession und Bürgerkrieg: Trans-Atlantische Erfahrungen von Schleswig-Holstein und den Vereinigten Staaten, Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Schleswig-Holsteinische Geschichte 81 (October 2011): United States and German States: Diplomatic Relations during the Civil War. Clio s Quill 9 (Spring 2007): Reviews Review of The Yellowhammer War: The Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama, edited by Kenneth W. Noe. Journal of Southern History (Forthcoming) Review of Slavery, Race, and Conquest in the Tropics: Lincoln, Douglas, and the Future of Latin America, by Robert E. May. American Nineteenth Century History (Forthcoming 2014). Review of U.S.-Habsburg Relations from 1815 to the Paris Peace Conference: Sovereignty Transformed, by Nicole M. Phelps. Journal of American History (Forthcoming 2014). Review of Spain and the Civil War, by Wayne H. Bowen. American Nineteenth Century History 14 (November 2013): Review of A Secret Society History of the Civil War, by Mark A. Lause. Southern Historian 34 (Spring 2013). Review of Blue & Gray Diplomacy: A History of Union and Confederate Foreign Relations, by Howard Jones. Southern Historian 32 (Spring 2011). Review of In the Lion s Dean: A Novel of the Civil War, by Elizabeth Cobbs-Hoffman. Roundtable Discussion on H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews. March Review of Caution and Cooperation: The American Civil War in British-American Relations, by Phillip E. Myers. Southern Historian 31 (Spring 2010). Review of The Devil s Apostle: Jonas King s Trial against the Greek Hierarchy in 1852 and the Pressure to Extend U.S. Protection for American Missionaries Overseas, by Angelo Repousis. H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews. December Propaganda and Partisanship in the Civil War North. Review of The Boundaries of American Political Culture in the Civil War Era, by Mark E. Neely, Jr. and No Party Now: Politics in the Civil War North, by Adam I.P. Smith. H-Civwar, H-Net Reviews. December Encyclopedia Entries Age of Enfranchisement: 1820s-1920s. (4000 words) World Democracy Encyclopedia, ed. James Ciment. (M.E. Sharpe, under contract) Blockade of Confederate Ports. (1000 words), San Juan Islands. (1000 words), Mexican- American War. (2000 words), Koszta Affair. (1000 words), Trent Affair. (1000

3 words), Manifest Destiny. (1000 words) Encyclopedia of American Imperialism and Expansionism, ed. David Bernstein and Chris Magoc. (ABC-CLIO Press, under contract). Crimean War. (1500 words), Mexican-American War. (2000 words), Native American Wars. (1500 words), Revolution of (1500 words), Revolutions of (1500 words) The SAGE Encyclopedia of War, ed. Paul Joseph and J. Geoffrey Golson. (SAGE, under contract). PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS Sherman s Georgia Campaign and March to the Sea: Foreign Soldiers and Foreign Perspectives. Paper to be presented at Ocmulgee National Monument on 150 th Anniversary of the Battles of Dunlap Hill and Walnut Creek, Macon, GA, November 15, (invited) A Long Age of Revolution? 1688 in England and 1848 in Ireland. Paper to be presented at the Southern Conference on British Studies part of the 80th Annual Meeting of the Southern Historical Association, Atlanta, GA, November 13-16, Currents and Crosscurrents of the Age of Atlantic Revolution. Organizer and moderator of an undergraduate/graduate student panel for the 29th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities, Carrollton, GA, October 30-November 1, Von Poison Spring bis Düppeln: Die Vereinigten Staaten und der Deutsch-Dänische Krieg. Paper to be presented at Der Wiener Friede 1864 als deutsches, europäisches und globales Ereignis, Friedrichsruh, Germany, October 16-17, (invited) Nationalism and Secession: A Global History of the American Civil War. Paper presented at Civil War in Global Context: 2014 Virginia Civil War Sesquicentennial Signature Conference, Fairfax, VA, May 31, (invited) The End of Liberal-Nationalism? An Evaluation of the Late Age of Revolution. Paper presented at Annual Meeting of the Consortium of the Revolutionary Era, Oxford, MS, February 20-22, Professional Revolutionary: A Failed Profession. Paper presented at the 28th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities, Carrollton, GA, October 31-November 2, Separatist Forty-Eighters: The United States and a Legacy of Paper presented at The Legacy of 1848: Transplanted Ideas and Values in America s Past and Present, Waverly, IA, October 20-22, Was This Terrible War This Terrible? A Global Comparative Perspective. Paper presented at "This Terrible War" a Conference hosted by the Center for Civil War Research at the University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, October 3-5, Die Hanseatische Gesandtschaft in Washington: Handel und Diplomatie während des Amerikanischen Bürgerkrieges. Paper presented at Hanseatic-American Relations since 1790, Hamburg, Germany, November 23, Great Britain, the United States, and the Eastern Question: Transatlantic Relations from the Crimean War to the Civil War. Paper presented at the Southern Conference on British Studies part of the 78th Annual Meeting of the Southern Historical Association, Mobile, AL, November 1-4, 2012.

4 The Eastern Question and the American Civil War: Great Britain s Diplomatic Distractions. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Association of British American Nineteenth Century Historians, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, October 12-14, Rudolph M. Schleiden: Forgotten Revolutionary and Diplomat from Schleswig-Holstein. Paper presented at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Southern Historical Association, Baltimore, MD, October 27-30, Rudolph M. Schleiden: A Diplomat s Role in the Early Civil War. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, Louisville, KY, September 23-25, International Trade in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: A Case For Transatlantic Peace. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Alexandria, VA, June 23-25, and Civil War: The Mid-Nineteenth Century Atlantic World. Paper presented with Tradewinds: The Many Revolutions in the Atlantic World sponsored by the Graduate Student Association and History Department at Florida International University, Miami, FL, March 25-26, The Rhine River: The Impact of the German States on Transatlantic Diplomacy. Paper presented at the Civil War-Global Context, Charleston, SC, March 3-5, The Trent Affair Revisited: Great Britain and Rhine River Problem in a Transatlantic Context. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Association of British American Nineteenth Century Historians, Liverpool, UK, October 8-10, The United States and the Crimean War: The International Context of a Global War Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Madison, WI, June 24-26, Secession and Neutrality in Great Britain: The Debate in The Times of London between Cassius Clay, Edwin DeLeon, and John L. Motley. Paper presented at the Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression, Chattanooga, TN, November 12-14, Kladderadatsch, Economics, and the International Context: Reinterpreting the Role of Central Europe in the Civil War. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Fairview, VA, June 25-27, Did Historians get Civil War Diplomacy Wrong? The Missing International Context in Civil War Diplomatic History. Paper presented at The Civil War Era in Global Perspective at the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center, State College, PA, February 6-7, Kladderadatsch: A German Newspaper Perspective on the Civil War and Its International Context. Paper presented at the Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression, Chattanooga, TN, November 13-15, : The International Context of the Secession Year. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Columbus, OH, June 26-28, von Gerolt, Motley, and Schleiden: An International Dimension of Secession. Paper presented at the Sons of the Confederacy Meeting, Abbeville, Louisiana, October (invited) United States and German States Diplomatic Relations during the Civil War. Paper presented at the Sons of the Confederacy Meeting, Lafayette, Louisiana, April (invited)

5 United States and German States Diplomatic Relations during the Civil War. Paper presented at the Louisiana Regional Phi Alpha Theta Meeting during the Louisiana Historical Association Conference, Lafayette, LA, March 14, HONORS AND AWARDS International Travel Grant, Faculty Development Committee, Middle Georgia State College, Summer ($1500) Jesse Taylor, Jr. Endowed Scholarship in History,, J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, University of Arkansas, Spring ($3000) James J. Hudson Research Fellowship,, J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, University of Arkansas, Spring ($2000) Dr. Amos E. Simpson Award for Best Graduate Research Paper, Spring TEACHING EXPERIENCE College on the Move: Living History Tour May-June 2015 Antebellum and Civil War South Old South Old South and Public Memory Middle Georgia State College: History of the United States to 1877 History of the United States since 1877 World Civilization since 1650 The Long Age of Revolution, American West(s) America, University of Arkansas: History of the United States to 1877 History of the United States since 1877 World Civilization since 1500 Global Civil War Nineteenth Century Europe Twentieth Century Europe PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS Southern Historical Association Society of Civil War Historians Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Phi Alpha Theta Honor Society

6 LANGUAGES German (fluent), English (fluent), French (reading proficiency), Danish (reading proficiency) PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND POSITIONS 2014-present Academic Affairs Committee, Middle Georgia State College 2013-present Program Committee,, Middle Georgia State College 2013-present adviser History Student Organization, Middle Georgia State College Vice-President of the Society of European Historians at the U of A Secretary/Treasurer of the U of A s Phi Alpha Theta s Alpha Chapter Secretary of the Society of European Historians at the U of A assistant editor for Clio s Quill (student journal published by Phi Alpha Theta s Epsilon Xi Chapter, ULL) Vice-President of Phi Alpha Theta s Epsilon Xi Chapter, ULL COMMUNITY AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE 2014-present volunteer tour guide at Andersonville National Historic Site

7 References Distinguished Professor Dr. Daniel E. Sutherland University of Arkansas Old Main 416 Fayetteville, AR Associate Professor Dr. Brian Schoen Ohio University 433 Bentley Annex Athens, OH Professor Dr. Robert E. May Purdue University University Hall 672 Oval Drive West Lafayette, Indiana Assistant Professor Dr. J. Laurence Hare University of Arkansas Old Main 416 Fayetteville, AR James I. Robertson, Jr. Associate Professor of Civil War Studies Director, Virginia Center for Civil War Studies Dr. Paul Quigley Virginia Tech 405 Major Williams Hall 220 Stanger Street Blacksburg, VA

Department of History and Political Science Middle Georgia State University (479) University Parkway

Department of History and Political Science Middle Georgia State University (479) University Parkway NIELS EICHHORN and Political Science Middle Georgia State University (479) 287-2258 100 University Parkway eichhorn.niels@gmail.com Macon, GA 31206 niels.eichhorn@mga.edu nielseichhorn.com facebook.com/collegeonthemove