Andrew Slap

Education:

• B.A., 1994, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
• Ph.D., 2002, Pennsylvania State University

About Dr. Slap:

Andrew Slap's research and teaching focuses on nineteenth-century American history, particularly a broadly conceived Civil War era. He has published books on Reconstruction politics, Appalachia after the Civil War, and the urban South during the Civil War era. He is currently working on a book project about African American communities in nineteenth-century Memphis. The work uses a generational cohort that came of age during emancipation to study the nature of African American communities in the 19th century. The communities that emerge challenge central paradigms of African American history, showing that emancipation was a gradual process in which multiple antebellum African American communities and traditions continued through the end of the 19th century. Some of his early publications from this project include essays on African American marriage practices in the era of emancipation and the process of African American urbanization in the decades after the Civil War. In addition to teaching a wide variety of courses -- including ones on the Civil War, comparative slavery, and Appalachia -- he regularly works with graduate students.

Dr. Slap is also the series editor for two separate book series: Reconstructing America, Fordham University Press and The North's Civil War, Fordham University Press