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Amy Fluker
Dr. Amy Fluker
Associate Professor
Humanities & Social Sciences
DeBartolo Hall 537
phone: (330) 941-1602
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
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2015
Ph D, US History
University of Mississippi
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2010
MA, US History
University of Mississippi
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2008
BA, US History
Westminster College
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2025
YSU
Distinguished Professor: Teaching
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2024
National Endowment for the Humanities
Visiting Research Scholar
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2023
National Endowment for the Humanities
Visiting Research Scholar
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2022
Youngstown State University
Distinguished Professor: Scholarship
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2021
Youngstown State University
Faculty Improvement Leave
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2020
Youngstown State University
Research Professorship
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2019
Youngstown State University
Research Professorship
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2025
"Haunted by Memory: Ghost Stories of the American Civil War"
A. Fluker, J. Neff
University of Tennessee Press -
2025
"The “Ghost at Post 1”: The National Tribune and the Supernatural in Civil War Memory"
A. Fluker, J. Neff
Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression -
2023
"“A ‘Ghost among Regions’: Loss, Memory, and Identity in Midwestern History”"
A. Fluker
Middle West Review, volume 10, issue No. 2, p. 69-75
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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
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2020
"Union, Loyalty, and Patriotic Sacrifice in the Civil War North"
A. Fluker
The New England Quarterly, volume 91, issue 3 -
2013
"“The Grandest Charity in the Country: The Missouri Home for Confederate Veterans"
A. Fluker
The Civil War Monitor
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2022 - 2022
Session Chair
Ohio Academy of History -
Unknown
Reviewer, Book
University of Oklahoma Press -
2021 - 2022
Session Chair
YSU-Purdue Symposium -
2021 - 2022
Committee Chair
Program Committee, Ohio Academy of History -
2020 - 2021
Committee Chair
Nominating Committee, Ohio Academy of History -
2019 - 2019
Session Chair
The Society for Military History -
2019 - 2019
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 -
Unknown
Reviewer, Textbook
W. W. Norton & Company
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2025 - present
Committee Member
Trumbull County Historical Society Sutliff Commitee -
2025 - present
Board Member
Trumbull County Historical Society -
2025 - present
Chair
Trumbull County Historical Society Collections Committee -
2024 - 2024
Committee Member
Ghost Walk Committee: Trumbull County Historical Society and Trumbull Co Arts Council -
2024 - present
Organizer
Jewish Cemeteries Project: Youngstown Area Jewish Cemeteries Association -
2024 - 2025
Committee Member
America 250 Committee: Trumbull Co Historical Society -
2024 - present
Guest Speaker
Underground Railroad Tours: Trumbull County Historical Society -
2021 - present
Organizer
Oakwood Cemetery Digitization Project -
2020 - present
Chair
Reeder Lecture Series -
2019 - 2020
Committee Member
Northeast Ohio Suffrage Centennial Planning Committee