Faculty Profile
April Holm
History
Associate Professor of History
History Department, 310 Bishop Hall
University, MS 38677
(662) 915-6945
Joined UM: August 18, 2011
Areas of Expertise
- HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY UNITED STATES
Brief Bio
April Holm is a historian of the nineteenth century United States with a particular interest in sectionalism, the Civil War and Reconstruction, Christianity, and slavery and emancipation. Her work concerns the intersection of the moral and religious with the political. She is currently revising her dissertation, “A Kingdom Divided: Border Evangelicals in the Civil War Era.” Professor Holm received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2010 and spent a year as at Schwartz Postdoctoral Fellow at the New School and The New-York Historical Society. She joined the University of Mississippi in 2011.
Degrees
MA |
History |
Columbia University-New York City (2004) |
MPH |
History |
Columbia University-New York City (2006) |
PhD |
History |
Columbia University-New York City (2010) |