Stephen Berry, author, is Gregory Professor of the Civil War Era, Secretary-Treasurer of the Southern Historical Association, and Co-Director, with Claudio Saunt, of the Center for Virtual History, all at the University of Georgia. The author or editor of six books on the South in the Civil War Era, he has always felt compelled to study “old, unhappy, far-off things.”

Frances Hughes, photographer, is an independent photographer living in Athens, Georgia. She specializes in photographing the American South’s strange mix of decay and rebirth. You can see more of her work at her website, franceshughesphotography.com.

Diana Cooley, Technical Lead, is Application Programmer at Information Technology Outreach Services, a division of the Carl Vinson Institute of Government at the University of Georgia. Cooley oversees the database design, maintenance, and extension of CSI:D’s content management system.

Tracy Barnett, Lead Research Assistant, is a doctoral student at the University of Georgia. She is fascinated by male behavior—especially the bad and unsavory varieties. Her dissertation examines guns, alcohol, and masculinity in the Civil War Era South.

Annelle Brunson, former Research Assistant, is a master's student at the University of Georgia, where her research focuses on women's health.

Weiwen Xu, Data Science Assistant, is a programmer at Information Technology Outreach Services, a division of the Carl Vinson Institute of Government at the University of Georgia. She helps with data modeling, pipeline building and data visualizations.

Kate Dahlstrand, former Research Assistant, is a doctoral student at the University of Georgia, where she writes and teaches on veterans and veterans’ issues in American history.

Katherine Brackett, former Research Assistant, is Communications Director & Research Associate, General Education Redesign, Middle Tennessee State University. Her research focuses on how reading shaped the nineteenth-century female imagination.

Andrew Fialka, former Research Assistant, is an Assistant Professor of History at Middle Tennessee State University, where he researches spatial history and patterns of violence in the smaller-scale encounters of the American Civil War.

Samuel McGuire, former Research Assistant, is currently Assistant Professor of History at Tennessee Wesleyan College. His research focuses on Union Army veterans, race, economy, and Civil War memory in Reconstruction-era Appalachia.

Leah Richier, former Research Assistant, is now assistant professor of history at University of North Florida. Her research examines race, disability, and mental health in the mid- to late-19c. South.

Matt O’Neal, former Research Assistant, is a doctoral student at the University of Georgia, where his research focuses on race and railroads in the late-19th and early-20th century South.