Dr. Anne Sarah Rubin
Professor · Tenured
College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
She/Her/Hers/Herself
About
Anne Sarah Rubin is a Professor of History at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where she was the 2016-2017 Lipitz Professor of the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. She was also the Associate Director of the Imaging Research Center from 2017-2020. Her most recent book is the co-edited memoir, The Perfect Scout: A Soldier's Memoir of the Great March to the Sea and the Campaign of the Carolinas (University of Alabama Press, 2018). Dr. Rubin's first book, A Shattered Nation: The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy (UNC, 2005), received the 2006 Avery O. Craven Award from the Organization of American Historians, for the most original book on the Civil War era. She was a co-author of the award-winning Valley of the Shadow, an interactive history of the Civil War in two communities. She has also published numerous essays and journal articles. Her study of the place of Sherman's March in American culture and history, entitled Through the Heart of Dixie: Sherman's March in American Memory was published in September 2014 by UNC Press. The project also has a multimedia component, which can be found at http://www.shermansmarch.org. She is currently working on a project called A Mouthful of Nothing: Food and Famine in the Civil War South, 1860-1868.Dr. Rubin was President of the Southern Association of Woman Historians in 2022 and has been a member of their Executive Council from 2014-2016 and 2020-2023. She served as President of the Society of Civil War Historians from 2012-2014 and was a member of its Advisory Board from 2014-2016.
Research interests
US Civil WarUS South
19th Century US
Digital History
Teaching interests
US Civil WarUS South
19th Century US
Digital History
Education
- Ph D, History — University of Virginia (1999)
- MA, History — University of Virginia (1993)
- BA, History — Princeton University (1991)