Profile
Dr. Claire Wolnisty
Title: Associate Professor of History
Department: History
Degree(s): Ph.D., The University of Kansas
M.A., The University of Kansas
B.A., Creighton University
M.A., The University of Kansas
B.A., Creighton University
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Recent Courses
- US Civil War and Reconstruction
- Smugglers and Pirates
- Texas History
- Women in the United States
- History of the US to 1876
- The Lure of the Local
- American Colonial History and the US Revolutionary War Era
- Early 19th Century US History
Research Interests
- International/Transnational 19th-Century US History
- Confederate Diaspora
- Atlantic World Pirates
- US Expansionism, Slavery, and Borderlands
Selected Publications
“The Confederate Diaspora,” in Essential Civil War Curriculum, the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies at Virginia Tech, May 2024.
“Edward A. Pollard, 1832-1872” in Daniel Woolf and Marnie Hughes-Warrington, eds., History from Loss (Taylor & Francis, April 2023).
A Different Manifest Destiny: Southern Identity, Citizenship, and Survival in Nineteenth-Century South America, University of Nebraska Press, October 1, 2020, and December 1, 2023.
“To ‘Serve Both as a Light and as a Beacon to Our Noble Old State’: Southern Citizens in Latin America,” in Paul Quigley, ed., The Civil War and the Transformation of Citizenship (Louisiana State University Press, June 2018).