Dr. Andrew Fialka
Associate Professor
Fall 2025: T, 12-2p
Departments / Programs
Degree Information
- PHD, University of Georgia (2018)
- MA, West Virginia University (2013)
- BA, University of Missouri (2010)
Areas of Expertise
American Civil War & Reconstruction, 19th Century U.S., Guerrilla War, Geographic Information Systems, Historical Research Methods
Biography
I teach courses on American History, the Civil War & Reconstruction, Guerrilla War, GIS for Humanists, and Historical Research Methods. My research uses spatial analyses in GIS to study guerrilla violence during the American Civil War (see a digital presentation of my dissertation, Of Methods and Madness). In 2012, I worked as a National Park Service park ranger at the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park. In 2025, I published Hope Never to See It: A Graphic History of Guerrilla Violence during the American Civil War with illustrator Anderson Carman.
Publications
Regimes and Rebels: The Nature of Violence Resistance in the Nineteenth Century, co-edited with Aaron Sheehan-Dean (Louisiana State University Press, forthcoming).
"Federal Eyes: How the Union Saw Kentucky's Civil War," Ohio Valley History 18, no. 3...
Read More »Regimes and Rebels: The Nature of Violence Resistance in the Nineteenth Century, co-edited with Aaron Sheehan-Dean (Louisiana State University Press, forthcoming).
"Federal Eyes: How the Union Saw Kentucky's Civil War," Ohio Valley History 18, no. 3 (Fall 2018): 6-25.
"Guerrillas in the Archive: Kentucky's Irregular War through the Governor's Eyes," Register of the Kentucky Historical Socety 116, no. 2 (Spring 2018): 209-236.
"A Spatial Approach to Civil War Missouri's Domestic Supply Line," in The Guerrilla Hunters: Irregular Conflicts during the Civil War, Barton A. Myers & Brian D. McKnight, eds. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2017).
"Controlled Chaos: Spatiotemporal Patterns within Missouri's Irregular Civil War," in The Civil War Guerrilla: Unfolding the Black Flag in History, Memory, and Myth, Joseph M. Beilein, Jr. & Matthew C. Hulbert, eds. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2015).
Research / Scholarly Activity
Fugitive Federals - A Digital Humanities Investigation of Escaped Union Prisoners
Of Methods and Madness - A Spatial History Approach to the Civil War's Guerrilla Violence
CSI: Dixie - The View from the American South's County Coroner's Offices, 1800-1900
