The Civil War Institute (CWI) Fellows program provides a range of professional and academic experiences, allowing Gettysburg College students to develop new skills and expand their career options. Here are the 2024-2025 Fellows!
The Fellows program is a unique opportunity for students interested in history to participate in a shared intellectual experience and take advantage of the unique resources provided by Gettysburg’s distinctive historical location. The Fellows meet with as a group with CWI staff three times per semester for experiential learning opportunities such as interpretive workshops out on a battlefield, behind-the-scenes visits to local museums and cultural institutions, discussions of scholarly articles and primary source, and/or Zoom discussions with public historians about various aspects of the craft of public history.
The program also offers students a valuable opportunity to pursue both individual and collaborative historical research and to hone their skills as historians, interpreters, researchers, and writers under Senior student project managers. Fellows' projects range from a variety of digital history projects, to originally researched blog pieces, to video projects, to oral histories.
The CWI offers a range of public programming throughout the academic year. CWI Fellows who are so inclined have the opportunity to meet some of the top scholars in the field while helping assist with the planning and social media coverage of events such as the Robert Fortenbaugh Memorial Lecture. The CWI Fellows Program is administered according to Gettysburg College’s nondiscrimination policy, details of which can be found on the Admissions/Financial Aid website.
The 2024-2025 Fellows are busy working on a variety of projects! These include: researching and writing new soldier profiles for the Killed at Gettysburg digital history project, creating short interpretive videos on the Gettysburg battlefield, mapping, contextualizing, and analyzing various Confederate monuments for the new State of the Confederacy digital mapping project, transcribing and annotating soldiers' accounts of the Gettysburg Campaign from period newspapers for CWI's new "Voices from Gettysburg" database, conducting and transcribing oral histories for inclusion in Musselman Library's Special Collections, and leading short interpretive tours out on the battlefield for community members and college visitors.
Check out past Fellows' additional research projects on CWI’s student blog, the Gettysburg Compiler, including comparative analyses of historical newspaper accounts of the Battle of Gettysburg, studies of the intersection between popular consumer culture and historical memory, using memorabilia from Gettysburg's souvenir shops, and more. Visit CWI's YouTube channel for previous students' Zoom interviews with noted Civil War scholars, as well as CWI's Civil War Music Mini-Series.