Associate Professor, History jmb79@psu.edu Office Phone: 814-898-6451 Office Location: 127 Kochel Mailing Address: 170 IRVIN KOCHEL CENTER PENN STATE BEHREND ERIE, PA 16563 Bottom FieldsBio Joseph M. Beilein Jr. is a Civil War historian who specializes in guerrilla warfare, gender, material culture, and violence. He’s the author of Bushwhackers: Guerrilla Warfare, Manhood, and the Household in Civil War Missouri (2016) and the co-editor of The Civil War Guerrilla: Unfolding the Black Flag in History, Memory, and Myth (2015) and several articles on the guerrilla conflict during the Civil War. His evolving research agenda seeks to include the intersection of alcohol and manhood during the Civil War. At Penn State Behrend, Beilein teaches courses on the Civil War, the Battle of Gettysburg, Military History, and American History. Beilein has consulted on two episodes of TLC celebrity genealogy show Who Do You Think You Are? with actresses Jessica Biel and Megan Mullally. Courses Taught HIST 020, American Civilization to 1877 HIST 130, Introduction to the Civil War Era, 1848 through 1877 Recent Conference Participation “’Nothing But Truth is History’: William E. Connelley, William H. Gregg, and the Pillaging of Guerrilla History,” Society of Civil War Historians Biennial Conference, Lexington, Kentucky, June 14-16, 2012. Missouri Secessionist Households, Chair, 53rd Annual Missouri Conference on History, Kansas City, Missouri, April 15, 2011. Roundtable: Directions in Missouri’s Civil War History, Panelist, 53rd Annual Missouri Conference on History, Kansas City, Missouri, April 14, 2011. “The Hired-Hand: William Clarke Quantrill, the Household, and Missouri’s Organic System of Warfare,” 7th Graduate Conference on History, University of Missouri, Department of History, April 16, 2010. “The Guerrilla Shirt: A Labor of Love in Missouri’s Civil War,” Suprea Utilitatem: Finding Artistry in Functionality, Graduate Student Symposium, Department of Art History and Archaeology, University of Missouri, February 27, 2010. Invited Talks and Other Presentations “The Guerrilla Shirt,” The Friends of the James Farm Annual Meeting, Jesse James Farm and Museum, Kearney, Missouri, June 9, 2012. “The Guerrilla Shirt: A Labor of Love and the Style of Rebellion in Civil War Missouri,” Border Wars Conference, Kansas City, November 11, 2011. “Guerrilla Men, Rebel Women, and Household War in Civil War Missouri,” University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, October 4, 2011. “Historian At War: William E. Connelley and the Creation of the Savage Guerrilla,” Border Wars Symposium, Hall Center for the Humanities, University of Kansas, April 6-8, 2011. Research Interests Civil War, guerrilla warfare, gender, material culture, and alcohol. Publications Historical to a Fault: Gary Ross, Free State of Jones, and the (Eventual) Destruction of the Lost Cause - January (1st Quarter/Winter), 2019Ohio Valley History - October (4th Quarter/Autumn), 2018The Terror of Kentucky: Sue Mundy's Highly Gendered War against Convention, Register of the Kentucky Historical Society - April (2nd Quarter/Spring), 2018Whiskey, Wild Men, and Missouri's Guerrilla War - 2016Extreme Civil War: Guerrilla Warfare, Environment, and Race on the Trans-Mississippi Frontier by Matthew M. Stith - October (4th Quarter/Autumn), 2016Faces Like Devils: The Bald Knobber Vigilantes in the Ozarks. By Matthew J. Hernando, The Journal of the Civil War Era - September, 2016Bushwhackers: Guerrilla Warfare, Manhood, and the Household in Civil War Missouri - June, 2016The Guerrilla and the Historian: William H. Gregg, William E. Connelley, and the Pillaging of Guerrilla History - April (2nd Quarter/Spring), 2015The Civil War Guerrilla: Unfolding the Black Flag in History and Myth - April (2nd Quarter/Spring), 2015The Civil War in Missouri: A Military History, by Louis Gerteis, Civil War History - March, 2014The Guerrilla Shirt: A Labor of Love and the Style of Rebellion - September, 2013Of Eyes and Teeth: The Trial of George Maddox, the Raid on Lawrence, and the Bloodstained Verdict of the Guerrilla War - August 19, 2013Guerrillas in Civil War Missouri by James Erwin - April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 10, 2013Captain Joseph Boyce and the First Missouri Infantry, Civil War History - December, 2012The Battle of Mine Creek: The Crushing End of the Missouri Campaign by Stalnaker, Jeffrey D. - October (4th Quarter/Autumn), 2012The Guerrilla Shirt: A Labor of Love and the Style of Rebellion in Civil War Missouri, Civil War History - June, 2012Financial Fraud and Geiger, Mark W, Guerrilla Violence in Missouri’s Civil War, 1861-1865, Civil War Monitor - December 21, 2011 Education Ph D, American History/History, University of MissouriMA, American History/History, University of MissouriBA, American History/History, Kenyon College