Dr. Amy Fluker

Associate Professor
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Dr. Amy Fluker

Associate Professor

Humanities & Social Sciences

DeBartolo Hall 537

phone: (330) 941-1602

alfluker@ysu.edu

Research Interests

Nineteenth Century U.S. History, the American Civil War, Civil War Memory

Teaching Interests

U.S. History to 1877, American Civil War, Women's History, History of Ohio and the Midwest, History of Warfare and Society

  • Education

    • 2015

      Ph D, US History

      University of Mississippi

    • 2010

      MA, US History

      University of Mississippi

    • 2008

      BA, US History

      Westminster College

  • Awards and Honors

    • 2023

      National Endowment for the Humanities

      Visiting Research Scholar

    • 2022

      Youngstown State University

      Distinguished Professor: Scholarship

    • 2021

      Youngstown State University

      Faculty Improvement Leave

    • 2020

      Youngstown State University

      Research Professorship

    • 2019

      Youngstown State University

      Research Professorship

  • Intellectual Contributions

    • 2023

      "“A Ghost Among Regions: Considering a Spectral History of the Midwest"

      A. Fluker

      Middle West Review

    • 2022

      "History, Memory and Why it Matters"

      A. Fluker

      The Business Journal Daily

    • 2020

      "“We Have Drank from the Same Canteen: Veteran Company A, the Civil War, and Reconciliation in Kansas City"

      A. Fluker

      University of Missouri Press

    • 2020

      "Commonwealth of Compromise: Civil War Commemoration in Missouri"

      A. Fluker

      University of Missouri Press, p. 282

    • 2020

      "“The Recuperative Powers of Missouri: Reconciliation in a Border State"

      A. Fluker

      Missouri Historical Review, volume 114, issue 3

    • 2020

      "Union, Loyalty, and Patriotic Sacrifice in the Civil War North"

      A. Fluker

      The New England Quarterly, volume 91, issue 3

    • 2015

      "“Civilian Death” and “Photography”"

      A. Fluker

      ABC-CLIO, LLC

    • 2013

      "“The Grandest Charity in the Country: The Missouri Home for Confederate Veterans"

      A. Fluker

      The Civil War Monitor

  • Professional Service

    • Unknown

      Session Chair
      Ohio Academy of History

    • Unknown

      Reviewer, Book
      University of Oklahoma Press

    • Unknown

      Committee Chair
      Nominating Committee, Ohio Academy of History

    • 2021 - 2022

      Session Chair
      YSU-Purdue Symposium

    • 2021 - 2022

      Committee Chair
      Program Committee, Ohio Academy of History

    • Unknown

      Session Chair
      The Society for Military History

    • Unknown

      Session Chair
      Ohio Academy of History

    • 2019 - 2020

      Committee Chair
      Program Committee, Civil War Study Group

    • 2019 - 2022

      Committee Member
      Program Committee, Ohio Academy of History

    • 2018 - 2021

      Committee Member
      Nominating Committee, Ohio Academy of History

  • Public Service

    • 2023 - 2023

      Guest Speaker
      Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site

    • Unknown

      Guest Speaker
      Missouri State Museum

    • Unknown

      Guest Speaker
      Sutliff Museum

    • Unknown

      Guest Speaker
      Sutliff Museum

    • Unknown

      Guest Speaker
      Missouri State Museum

    • Unknown

      Guest Speaker
      McKinley Memorial Museum

    • 2021 - present

      Organizer
      Oakwood Cemetery Digitization Project

    • Unknown

      Guest Speaker
      Warrensburg Public Library

    • Unknown

      Guest Speaker
      Park Vista Retirement Community

    • Unknown

      Guest Speaker
      Cuyahoga Valley Civil War Roundtable

    • 2019 - 2020

      Committee Member
      Northeast Ohio Suffrage Centennial Planning Committee