Field(s) of expertise:

Degree(s):

• B.A. 2005: University of North Texas
• M.A. 2008: University of North Texas
• M.A. 2010: Rice University
• Ph.D. 2013: Rice University

Department:

Title(s):

• Associate Professor

Achievements:

• Finalist, Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize, 2022
• William E. Parrish Faculty Teaching Award, Mississippi State University, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022
• Beverly B. and Gordon W. Gulmon Deans Eminent Scholar in the Humanities, 2020-2023

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Books:

• A Contest of Civilizations: Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism in the Civil War Era. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021

Links:

• faculty directory page

Bio:

Andrew F. Lang specializes in the history of nineteenth-century America and the U. S. Civil War Era. His most recent book, A Contest of Civilizations: Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism in the Civil War Era (2021), is published in the University of North Carolina Press’s landmark series, Littlefield History of the Civil War Era. Prof. Lang serves on the Executive Council of the Society of Civil War Historians (SCWH), the field’s flagship professional organization.