Its clear she will bring an awful lot to Virginia Tech with teaching, research, and outreach programs as well. She specializes in 19thcentury u. S. History, including, of course, the civil war era, but also north american slavery more generally. Warfare more generally as well. Appeared inhas civil war monitor and Civil War History journal, among other publications. Her big project at the moment is converting her phd dissertation into a book. That will be well worth looking out for a few years down the line. It is on the very same topic. You can see the powerpoint is already up there. Under the rebel lash black prisoners of war in the confederate south. She will speak for about 25 to 35 minutes, which will give us plenty of time for discussion. And i think a big advantage of the zoom format is you will be able to type in your questions using the q a feature. You will not be able to use the chat in the webinar, but you can use the q a button if you have a question, and you can type those