Camryn Counsil
Camryn Counsil is a Senior at Gettysburg College, born and raised in Southern California, about an hour north from Los Angeles. She is a History and Anthropology double-major, with minors in Civil War Era Studies, Public History, and Classics. During her first year, Camryn participated in the CWI’s First Year Experience Program. For the past three summers, Camryn has worked as a Brian C. Pohanka Intern. Her locations include Harpers Ferry National Historical Park in West Virginia, Adams County Historical Society’s new museum in Gettysburg, and Boston Harbor Islands National and State Park in Massachusetts. In her first year of being a Fellow, Camryn created, filmed, and edited spot interpretation videos that were published on the Institute’s YouTube page. Outside of academic pursuits, Camryn enjoys taking part in theater productions, as well as singing with the College Choir through the Sunderman Conservatory of Music. Finally, Camryn works on-campus as a senior intern for Gettysburg College’s Office of Admissions.
Michael Cox
Michael Cox is a Sophomore from Harford County, Maryland, less than an hour north of Baltimore. He is a History major with a planned double major in Political Science and minor in Civil War Era Studies. In his first year at Gettysburg College, he was involved in the Lincoln Scholars Program, the Civil War Institute’s First Year Experience Program, and the Garthwait Leadership Center’s Leadership Certificate. This past summer, Michael completed a remote internship doing transcription work for Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historic Park. He is excited to continue his involvement in the FYEP with the Fellows!
Michael Aaron
Michael Aaron is a Junior from Clarion County, Pennsylvania, a small town an hour north of Pittsburgh. He is a history major with a triple minor in Anthropology, Civil War Era Studies, and Public History hoping to take on an Anthropology Major. During his time at Gettysburg, he has been involved with the Civil War Institute Fellows program since freshman year. He has created a small program on the Louisiana Monument and most recently worked transcribing and explaining letters from civil war soldiers printed in newspapers on the Voices from Gettysburg website. He also interned at the Seminary Ridge Museum and Education Center through the Civil War Institute Funded Internship Program over his sophomore summer. Michael is also in the Gettysburg Historical Society, Gettysburg Archaeology Club, and Secretary in Gettysburg Model United Nations. Michael is excited to learn more from the CWI and looks to study abroad in Greece in Spring 2025.
Maddie Ullman
Maddie Ullman is a junior from Moorestown, New Jersey, who is majoring in History and minoring in Civil War Era Studies and Public History. Maddie previously served as a Brian C. Pohanka intern at Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park in the summer of 2023. During the summer of 2024, Maddie will be a Pohanka intern at Musselman Library's Special Collections and College Archives. She currently serves as a student employee at the Civil War Institute, assists in operating the CWI's social media, serves as an editor of the Gettysburg College Journal of the Civil War Era, and is the Public Relations Director for WZBT. Maddie hopes to pursue a career in either archival work or public history in the future!
Brandon Fey
Brandon Fey is a sophomore Eisenhower Scholar from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, pursuing majors in history and international and global studies on an international affairs track, with a French minor. He has worked as a historical interpreter at Washington Crossing Historic Park in Bucks County PA, where he facilitated educational programs, engaged in living history interpretations, and worked at the historic farm. As part of this experience, Brandon provided admissions and information to visitors at the historic Bowman’s Hill Tower, and initiated “The Washington Crossing Podcast.” At Gettysburg College, Brandon serves as News Editor of The Gettysburgian student newspaper, is on the executive board of the John Quincy Adams Society, and works as a Peer Research Mentor at the Musselman Library. He is also a member of the Sustainability Coalition, the 26th Pennsylvania College Guard, and the Newman Association.
McKenna White
McKenna White is a Senior at Gettysburg College originally from Whiting, Vermont. She is majoring in History with double minors in Public History and Spanish. This will be her third year as a Fellow and fourth year working with the Civil War Institute. During her previous years as a Fellow, she has interviewed notable historians and created spot interpretation videos for the CWI's YouTube page. She has also written a few pieces for the "Selling Gettysburg" series on the CWI student blog, Gettysburg Compiler. Most recently she worked on transcribing newspaper for the Voices Of Gettysburg database. In the summer of 2022, McKenna served as the Gettysburg College intern at Stratford Hall, working in the collections department. During the summer of 2023, she worked for the Vermont Historical Society researching and creating an exhibit on 19th century quarrymen. For the summer of 2024, McKenna served as one of the Historic Trades Interns at George Washington's Mount Vernon. At Gettysburg, she is involved in several organizations, such as the Phi Alpha Theta History Honors Society and Co-captain of the Equestrian team. Additionally, she is a student photographer for the Communications and Marketing Department. McKenna is excited to be returning to the CWI for her final semester at Gettysburg College!
Maggie Matheson
Maggie Matheson is a senior from Mercer Island, Washington. She is a History major with minors in English, Public History, and Civil War Era Studies. In her first year as a fellow, Maggie is proud to have helped develop the Voices From Gettysburg database. She serves as an editor for the Gettysburg College Journal of the Civil War Era and the Gettysburg Historical Journal. Maggie also works part-time at the Children of Gettysburg 1863 museum. In addition, she works as the student advisor to the Honor Commission. Maggie is currently working on a research project analyzing the experiences of female political prisoners at Fitchburg, Massachusetts during the Civil War. This past summer, her research was generously supported by the Millard E. Gladfelter ’25 Prize.
Charlie Miller
Charlie Miller is a Senior History major with a planned double-minors in Civil War Era Studies and Public History. Originally from Charlotte, North Carolina, he has also lived in Des Moines, Iowa, but primarily grew up in St. Petersburg, Florida. Charlie served as a Pohanka Intern at Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park in the summer of 2023. In the summer of 2024, he was an intern in the education department at the James Museum of Western and Wildlife Art in St. Petersburg. At Gettysburg, Charlie is a participant in the intramural program, and a sportswriter for The Gettysburgian. He was member of CWI’s First Year Experience Program and served as a CWI student Fellow during the 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 school years. He worked on the "State of the Confederacy" QGIS mapping series where he plotted and researched Confederate monuments in his home state of Florida. He also conducted oral history interviews for former Pohanka interns, and wrote several short articles for the Selling Gettysburg series on the student blog, The Gettysburg Compiler.
Sam Lavine
Sam Lavine is a Senior from York, Pennsylvania pursuing a major in History, with minors in Civil War Era Studies and Public History. He served two summers as a Brian C. Pohanka Intern at Antietam National Battlefield and Eisenhower National Historic Site before earning his Flat Hat and working as a seasonal Park Ranger at Eisenhower National Historic Site this summer. This is Sam's fourth year working with CWI. He started as a member of the First Year Experience Program and is now entering his third year as a student Fellow. Some of Sam's previous work for CWI includes spot interpretation videos on the Gettysburg battlefield for the CWI’s YouTube page, as well as interviews with Public Historians. Outside of work and classes, Sam is the President of the Gettysburg College Historical Society. This year Sam is also a member of the Eisenhower Institute's Strategy and Leadership in Transformative Times program and is looking forward to traveling to Normandy France as a part of that program in the Spring of 2025.
Marcy Zimmer
Marcy Zimmer is a sophomore from Milwaukee, Wisconsin who is majoring in history and minoring in Civil War Era Studies and Public History. Marcy interned through the Funded Internship Program at Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park last summer. She currently serves as the President of Gettysburg College's Civil War Club and is an avid member of the College's reenacting club. She published several articles about the Civil War with a variety of organizations such as Military Images and Savas Beatie. Marcy hopes to take her passion for the Civil War and public history into a career with the National Park Service.
Danielle Russell
Danielle Russell is a senior from Gilroy, California, Danielle is a History major with minors in Civil War Era Studies and Public History. She is a member of Phi Alpha Theta, the national history honors society, and Editor in Chief of the Gettysburg College Journal of the Civil War Era. As a Fellow during the 2022-2023 academic year, she researched and wrote a ’Killed at Gettysburg’ profile about Lieutenant Horatio F. Lewis of the 145th Pennsylvania Infantry. Danielle also completed a three-article series for the Compiler blog focused on Sergeant Harry W. Lewis of the 6th U.S. Cavalry and his experiences as a prisoner of war at Richmond’s Belle Isle Prison. During the 2023-2024 academic year, she completed a profile on North Carolina’s Union and Confederate monuments for the State of the Confederacy Monument Mapping Project. Since Fall 2022, Danielle has served as a Philip Warman Intern at Musselman Library’s Special Collections, where she catalogs, transcribes, and digitizes primary sources from the Civil War era. As the Resident Historian and Genealogist for Veterans of Foreign Wars John A. Berri Post #6309 in Gilroy, she fulfilled various research requests and mapped the locations of over 500 veterans’ graves in Gavilan Hills Memorial Park. She secured funding for and oversaw the installation of twelve headstones and sixty-seven service medallions for the previously unmarked graves of seventy-nine veterans. Danielle recently established Gilroy's Gavilan Veterans, a digital history project focused on honoring all veterans buried in Gavilan Hills Memorial Park. She has served as a Brian C. Pohanka Intern at both Musselman Library’s Special Collections and Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park.
Olivia Taylor
Olivia Taylor is a Senior from Cortlandt Manor, New York. She is a History major and is triple-minoring in Civil War Era Studies, Anthropology, and Public History. During the summers of 2022 and 2023, Olivia interned at the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History in New York City, where she assisted with archive management, student programming, and digitization. As a CWI Fellow, Olivia has written articles as part of the Selling Gettysburg project, created promotional videos out on the battlefield for the annual summer conference, and conducted oral histories with alumni of the funded internship program. Outside of the CWI, Olivia is the secretary of the Gettysburg College Student Senate, the student liaison for Conversations for Change, a member of both Phi Alpha Theta History Honors Society and Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honors Society, and she pole vaults for the women's track and field team.