Amy Fluker

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Dr. Amy Fluker

Associate Professor

Humanities & Social Sciences

DeBartolo Hall 537

phone: (330) 941-1602

alfluker@ysu.edu

Research Interests

Nineteenth Century U.S. History, the American Civil War, Civil War Memory

Teaching Interests

U.S. History to 1877, American Civil War, Women's History, History of Ohio and the Midwest, History of Warfare and Society

  • 2015

    Ph D, US History

    University of Mississippi

  • 2010

    MA, US History

    University of Mississippi

  • 2008

    BA, US History

    Westminster College

  • 2024

    National Endowment for the Humanities

    Visiting Research Scholar

  • 2023

    National Endowment for the Humanities

    Visiting Research Scholar

  • 2022

    Youngstown State University

    Distinguished Professor: Scholarship

  • 2021

    Youngstown State University

    Faculty Improvement Leave

  • 2020

    Youngstown State University

    Research Professorship

  • 2019

    Youngstown State University

    Research Professorship

  • 2023

    "“A ‘Ghost among Regions’: Loss, Memory, and Identity in Midwestern History”"

    A. Fluker

    Middle West Review, volume 10, issue No. 2, p. 69-75

  • 2022

    "History, Memory and Why it Matters"

    A. Fluker

    The Business Journal Daily
  • 2020

    "“We Have Drank from the Same Canteen: Veteran Company A, the Civil War, and Reconciliation in Kansas City"

    A. Fluker

    University of Missouri Press
  • 2020

    "Commonwealth of Compromise: Civil War Commemoration in Missouri"

    A. Fluker

    University of Missouri Press, p. 282
  • 2020

    "“The Recuperative Powers of Missouri: Reconciliation in a Border State"

    A. Fluker

    Missouri Historical Review, volume 114, issue 3

  • 2020

    "Union, Loyalty, and Patriotic Sacrifice in the Civil War North"

    A. Fluker

    The New England Quarterly, volume 91, issue 3
  • 2015

    "“Civilian Death” and “Photography”"

    A. Fluker

    ABC-CLIO, LLC
  • 2013

    "“The Grandest Charity in the Country: The Missouri Home for Confederate Veterans"

    A. Fluker

    The Civil War Monitor

  • 2024 - present

    Reviewer, Journal Article
    Ohio History

  • 2024 - 2024

    Reviewer, Book
    Journal of the Civil War Era

  • Unknown

    Session Chair
    Ohio Academy of History

  • Unknown

    Reviewer, Book
    University of Oklahoma Press

  • Unknown

    Committee Chair
    Nominating Committee, Ohio Academy of History

  • 2021 - 2022

    Session Chair
    YSU-Purdue Symposium

  • 2021 - 2022

    Committee Chair
    Program Committee, Ohio Academy of History

  • Unknown

    Session Chair
    The Society for Military History

  • Unknown

    Session Chair
    Ohio Academy of History

  • 2019 - 2020

    Committee Chair
    Program Committee, Civil War Study Group

  • 2019 - 2022

    Committee Member
    Program Committee, Ohio Academy of History

  • 2018 - 2021

    Committee Member
    Nominating Committee, Ohio Academy of History

  • 2025 - present

    Board Member
    Trumbull County Historical Society

  • 2024 - 2024

    Committee Member
    Ghost Walk Committee: Trumbull County Historical Society and Trumbull Co Arts Council

  • 2024 - present

    Organizer
    Jewish Cemeteries Project: Youngstown Area Jewish Cemeteries Association

  • 2024 - present

    Guest Speaker
    Warren-Trumbull Co Public LIbrary

  • 2024 - present

    Guest Speaker
    Underground Railroad Tours: Trumbull County Historical Society

  • 2024 - present

    Guest Speaker
    Joplin Public Library

  • 2024 - present

    Committee Member
    America 250 Committee: Trumbull Co Historical Society

  • 2023 - 2023

    Guest Speaker
    Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site

  • Unknown

    Guest Speaker
    Missouri State Museum

  • Unknown

    Guest Speaker
    Sutliff Museum

  • Unknown

    Guest Speaker
    Sutliff Museum

  • Unknown

    Guest Speaker
    Missouri State Museum

  • Unknown

    Guest Speaker
    McKinley Memorial Museum

  • 2021 - present

    Organizer
    Oakwood Cemetery Digitization Project

  • Unknown

    Guest Speaker
    Warrensburg Public Library

  • 2020 - present

    Chair
    Reeder Lecture Series

  • Unknown

    Guest Speaker
    Park Vista Retirement Community

  • Unknown

    Guest Speaker
    Cuyahoga Valley Civil War Roundtable

  • 2019 - 2020

    Committee Member
    Northeast Ohio Suffrage Centennial Planning Committee