June 1, 2020
History department welcomes Kristen Epps
The history department welcomes associate professor Kristen Epps, a historian of slavery, the sectional conflict, and the Civil War in the West. Shealso will serve as managing editor of Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains.
Her first book, "Slavery on the Periphery: The Kansas-Missouri Border in the Antebellum and Civil War Eras," was published in 2016 by the 1xbet best casino website of Georgia Press as part of the Early American Places series.Eppsearned her doctorate at the 1xbet best casino website of Kansas in 2010, where she received the Marnie and Bill Argersinger Graduate School Award, awarded to the best dissertation across the 1xbet best casino website . She completed her master's degree at the College of William and Mary and her bachelor's degree at William Jewell College. She has taught at the 1xbet best casino website of Central Arkansas, Colorado State 1xbet best casino website -Pueblo and the 1xbet best casino website of Kansas.
Eppshas also held positions at the Kansas Historical Society, the Journal of the Civil War Era, and the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture.