Committee on Degrees in History and Literature at Harvard

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• NAME: Megan Kate Nelson
• FIELD IN HISTORY AND LITERATURE: America
• Ph.D.: American Studies (University of Iowa)
• AREAS OF INTEREST:
  • Nature and American culture
  • American built environments
  • The American Civil War in history, literature, and art
  • War and culture
  • American visual culture
  • Destruction and disaster in American history, literature, and art
  • The history and literature of the U.S. South
  • The history and literature of American slavery
  • 19th-century American cultural history
  • Public history and historical memory (museum history, memorials, historical reenactments, etc.)
• DISSERTATION TOPIC OR TITLE: “Peculiar Ecology: Swamps and Culture in the Southeastern Borderlands” (2002), Published as Trembling Earth: A Cultural History of the Okefenokee Swamp (University of Georgia Press: 2005, 2009)
  Work in progress: Ruin Nation: Destruction and the Civil War (forthcoming, 2011)
• E-MAIL ADDRESS: meganknelson [at] fasmail.harvard.edu
• OFFICE: Barker 032
• OFFICE PHONE: 5-3288

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• Barker Center 122, Cambridge, MA 02138
• Phone: (617) 495-4029 | Fax: (617) 496-5605 | Email: histlit@fas.harvard.edu

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