Dr. Peter S. Carmichael is Robert C. Fluhrer Professor of Civil War Studies and Director of the Civil War Institute. He received his Ph.D. in History from Penn State University in 1996. His academic interests include 19th-century US history, Civil War and Reconstruction, southern history, public history and cultural history. Carmichael’s books include The War for the Common Soldier: How Men Thought, Fought, and Survived in the Civil War Armies (UNC, 2018); The Last Generation: Young Virginians in Peace, War, and Reunion (UNC, 2005); and Lee's Young Artillerist: William R.J. Pegram (Virginia, 1995). In addition to holding seasonal interpretive positions at several National Park Service sites, Carmichael served as Gettysburg National Military Park’s first Scholar-in-Residence in 1999, and has developed a lasting relationship with the NPS. In addition to overseeing multiple interpretive workshops for National Park Service staff, he directed a 2010 seminar at Gettysburg NMP to discuss new interpretive approaches to the Civil War sesquicentennial and co-directed (with Jill Ogline Titus) the joint GC/GNMP conference, The Future of Civil War History: Looking Beyond the 150th in 2013.
Dr. Jill Ogline Titus is Associate Director of the Civil War Institute and co-coordinator of the college’s Public History minor. She is the author of Gettysburg 1963: Civil Rights, Cold War Politics, and Historical Memory in America’s Most Famous Small Town (University of North Carolina Press, 2021), winner of the Willie Lee Rose Prize, and Brown’s Battleground: Students, Segregationists, and the Struggle for Justice in Prince Edward County (UNC Press, 2011), which was a finalist for the Library of Virginia Literary Award. At Gettysburg College, she teaches courses in modern American history, public history, African American history and historical memory, and oversees many of the college’s public history initiatives. From 2007 to 2012, she was Associate Director of the C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland. Prior to joining the staff of the Starr Center, Titus worked seasonally for the National Park Service. She received her Ph.D. in History from the University of Massachusetts in 2007. Her current project is an exploration of Gettysburg’s New Deal era Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camps.
Ashley Whitehead Luskey is Assistant Director of the Civil War Institute and a specialist in 19th-century American history, with research interests in the long Civil War era, the American South, cultural history, southern women, and historical memory. She is also a public historian with over 15 years of professional experience in interpretation, preservation, digital & oral history, archival work, & education. Prior to arriving at CWI, she spent 10 years working for the National Park Service, including 8 years at Richmond National Battlefield Park. Her current book project, "The Last Confederate Christmas: Slaveholding Women, Ritual, and Authority in the Confederate Capital," examines the ways through which the wives & daughters of Confederate politicians, officers, & businessmen in Richmond, Virginia attempted to maintain their social & political authority in the Confederate capital during the chaos of civil war. She earned her M.A. in History, with a concentration in Public History, in 2010, and her Ph.D. in History in 2014 from West Virginia University.