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Bio
Prior to joining the Chase Center, Frakes was an instructor with the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History's MA program and a grant writer with the American Battlefield Trust.
Frakes earned her Ph.D. in American history from the University of Virginia. She also holds an M.A. in history from UVA and a B.A. from Gettysburg College.
She is a historian of the Civil War era, with an emphasis on the military, social, and political dimensions of the Civil War and Reconstruction years. Her research and teaching interests center around how Americans understand the change that inevitability comes after conflict. Her first book, No Safety for Union Men, examines this by focusing on the on-the-ground experience of Union military occupation in Virginia during the Civil War and Reconstruction years, and will be published by Fordham University Press in its "Reconstructing America" series
Areas of Expertise
- American Civil War era
- Reconstruction era
- American military history
- Military occupation
- Civil war memory and commemoration
- The early republic
- African American history
- American slavery
- History of Virginia
- Nation unity and disunity
- Historic preservation and battlefield preservation
- Public history