c.v. – Jeffrey W. McClurken

Jeffrey W. McClurken

Vice President of Strategy, Chief of Staff, & Clerk of the Board, Office of the President
Professor of History & American Studies
University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA
jmcclurk (at) umw (dot) edu
540-654-1475

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Vice President of Strategy, Chief of Staff, & Clerk of the Board, Office of the President, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA. July 2017-Present. VP starting Feb. 2023. Reporting lines include University Communications, Information Technology, Events, and the President’s Office.

Professor of History & American Studies, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA. August 2013-present.

Special Assistant to the Provost for Teaching, Technology, and Innovation, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA. April 2014-July 2017.

Chair of History & American Studies, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA. July 2008-June 2014.

Associate Professor, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA. August 2007-August 2013.

Assistant Professor, Mary Washington College/University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA. August 2002-August 2007.

Instructor, Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, VA. Fall 2001-Spring 2002.

Lecturer, Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, VA. Fall 1999-Spring 2001.

Lecturer, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, MD. Fall 1999.

Instructor, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. Summer 1998, Summer 1999.

Research Specialist, Valley of the Shadow Project, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. Fall 1994-Summer 1995, Summer 1996.

EDUCATION

Ph.D., American History, 2003, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.

Dissertation title: “After the Battle: Reconstructing the Confederate Veteran Family in Pittsylvania County and Danville, Virginia, 1860-1900”

M.A., American History, 1997, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.

Fields of Study: 19^th Century America, American South, British Colonial America, Social and Cultural History (subfield in the History of Education), History of American Technology

B.A., History, 1994, Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, VA.

BOOK, CHAPTERS, AND ARTICLES

McClurken, Jeffrey W. “Public,” Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities: Concepts, Models, and Experiments, Modern Language Association, https://digitalpedagogy.hcommons.org/keyword/Public, 2020.

Pearson, Ellen Holmes, and Jeffrey W. McClurken. “Undergraduate Research in the Humanities.” In High-Impact Practices in Online Education, edited by Kathryn E. Linder and Chrysanthemum Mattison Hayes, First edition. Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing, 2018.

Pearson, Ellen Holmes, Jeffrey McClurken, & Claire Bailey. “Digital Liberal Arts at A Distance: A Consortium-Wide Approach,” Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, (2016) 48:3, 14-21, DOI: 10.1080/00091383.2016.1170519.

Moon, Krystyn L. and Jeffrey W. McClurken, “Making Assessment Work for You.” Journal of American History, (2016) 102 (4): 1123-1131 doi:10.1093/jahist/jav813.

McClurken, Jeffrey W. “Digital Literacy and the Undergraduate Curriculum,” In Hacking the Academy. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2011 (e-book), 2013 (print volume). Available online at http://www.digitalculture.org/hacking-the-academy/hacking-teaching/#teaching-mcclurken

McClurken, Jeffrey W. “Review essay of Richmond Daily Dispatch and Mining the Dispatch.” Journal of American History 99 (June 2012): 386-388.

McClurken, Jeffrey W. “Archives & Teaching Undergraduates in a Digital Age.” In A Different Kind of Web: New Connections between Archives and Our Users, edited by Kate Theimer. Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2011.

McClurken, Jeffrey W. “Teaching and Learning with Omeka: Discomfort, Play, and Creating Public, Online, Digital Collections,” in Learning through Digital Media: Experiments in Technology and Pedagogy, edited by Trebor Schultz. New York: The New School and the MacArthur Foundation, 2011. Also available online at http://web.archive.org/web/20150216113835/http://learningthroughdigitalmedia.net/teaching-and-learning-with-omeka-discomfort-play-and-creating-public-online-digital-collections

McClurken, Jeffrey W. ‘Take Care of the Living’: Reconstructing the Confederate Veteran Family in Virginia. Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2009 (print and e-book versions). [Nominated for the Library of Virginia Literary award and the Jefferson Davis Award of the Museum of the Confederacy.]

Little, Julie K. and Carie Page, with Kristen Betts, Stephanie Boone, Patrick Faverty, Tanya Joosten, Beth Kiggins, Jessica Knott, Erin Long, Alana J. Mauger, Jeffrey McClurken, Maureen McCreadie, Nils Peterson, and Celeste M. Schwartz, “Charting the Course and Tapping the Community: The EDUCAUSE Top Teaching and Learning Challenges 2009.” EDUCAUSE Review 44, no. 3 (May/June 2009): 30-44. http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Review/EDUCAUSEReviewMagazineVolume44/ChartingtheCourseandTappingthe/171775.

McClurken, Jeffrey W. “American Civil War History.” Chapter in The History Highway: A 21^st-Century Guide to Internet Resources, edited by Dennis Trinkle and Scott Merriman, 317-324. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2006; e-book version, 2007. [Reprinted in The American History Highway: A Guide to Internet Resources on U.S., Canadian, and Latin American History, edited by Dennis Trinkle and Scott Merriman. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2007.]

McClurken, Jeffrey W., and Jerry Slezak. “Research-Based Web Sites: Students Creating Online Scholarship.” Journal of the Association of History and Computing 9 (October 2006) http://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jahc/3310410.0009.203.

McClurken, Jeffrey W. “George Washington Dame.” Dictionary of Virginia Biography, v. 3, Richmond, VA: Library of Virginia, 2006.

WORKS IN PROGRESS

Murder at the Asylum: Poisoning, Politics, Pinkertons, and Psychiatry in Late Nineteenth-Century Virginia, book project in progress. [CSPAN interview about project – http://www.c-span.org/video/?318868-3/history-detectives-private-investigation ]

PUBLIC WRITING AND EDITING

Contributing Editor for Digital History Project Reviews, Journal of American History, https://jah.oah.org/submit/digital-history-reviews/, 2012-present with over 100 projects reviewed.
Author, Techist: Teaching, Technology, History, & Innovation, http://techist.mcclurken.org/, 2005-2023.
Contributing author, ProfHacker, Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009-2013. See https://www.chronicle.com/search?q=profhacker for articles.
Contributing author, TeachingHistory.org, National History Education Clearinghouse, RRCHNM. See https://teachinghistory.org/digital-classroom/ask-a-digital-historian.
Author, scholarly audio tour segments on the history of money in the United States for the Money Museum of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, 2003-2010.
Author, with Jerry Slezak, of site on the construction of research-based web sites, 2005, http://mcclurken.umwhistory.org/jahc/.

HONORS, INTERNAL GRANTS, AND AWARDS

Outstanding Faculty Award, Teaching with Technology, State Council for Higher Education of Virginia, 2014. [Highest award given by state to faculty.]

UMW Sabbatical awarded for Murder at the Asylum, 2014. [Deferred.]

Christopher “Topher” Bill Outstanding Faculty Service Award, UMW, 2012.

Listed in the Princeton Review’s The 300 Best Professors, 2012.

Affiliated Faculty, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University, 2010-present.

Banner Lecture, Virginia Historical Society, 2010.

Teaching Excellence Lecture, UMW Center for Advancing Teaching & Learning, 2010.

UMW Supplemental Faculty Development Grants, 2002, 2007-2015.

UMW/MWC Faculty Development Grants, 2004, 2007.

Outstanding Young Alumnus Merit Award, Mary Washington College Alumni Association, 2003.

Full History Department Fellowship and Stipend, Johns Hopkins University, 1995-1999.

Mellon Fellow, Virginia Historical Society, 1997.

GRANT-RELATED WORK

Consulting Advisor, “Striking Back, Striding Forward,” Video Line Productions, 2021-2025, funded by NEH Division of Public Programs. Published July 2025. https://thebarbarajohnsstory.org/

Co-Principal Investigator, “Digital Liberal Arts at a Distance: A Consortium-wide Approach.” 2016-2021. $540,000 funded by Mellon Foundation. http://coplacdigital.org/

Consultant, Digital Methods for Military Historians Summer Institute, 2019-2021, funded by NEH.

Consultant, CSU Center for Public History + Digital Humanities, PlacePress project, 2020-2022, funded by the NEH.

Consultant, Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, Datascribe project, 2020-2021, funded by the NEH.

Consultant, Historic Hudson Valley, Slavery in the Colonial North digital project, 2014-2015, 2016-2017. Funded by two rounds of NEH Digital Projects for the Public Discovery Grant.

Co-Organizer, Years of Anguish lecture series, 2009-2015. First three years funded by Institute of Museum and Library Services. Series jointly sponsored by the National Park Service, Fredericksburg Area Museum, and UMW. Battle of Fredericksburg event televised on C-SPAN: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/event/210988.

Project Scholar, with Central Rappahannock Regional Library, 2011-2012. Funded by American Library Association/National Endowment for the Humanities grant, “Let’s Talk about It: Making Sense of the American Civil War,” 2011-2012.

Member, Aquia Landing Historical Marker Committee, 2009-2011. Joint project with National Park Service, Stafford County, and Fredericksburg Area Museum, and funded by Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.

Lead University Faculty, Teaching American History Grants, US Department of Education, 2003-2011.

- Connections to the Past – Spotsylvania and Stafford Counties, Fredericksburg City Schools, 2003-2007.
- People and Moments in Time – Spotsylvania, Stafford, and Caroline County schools, 2005-2009.
- Forging Democracy – Spotsylvania, Stafford, and Caroline County schools, 2007-2011.

PROFESSIONAL SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS

“AI and Higher Education in Virginia,” Panelist, at Virginia State Council for Higher Education in Virginia (SCHEV) Orientation for Board Members, Richmond, Virginia, November 2025.

“AI Across Education Levels: Perspectives from K-12, Community Colleges, and 4-Year Institutions,” Panelist, and “Ethics, Integrity, Security, and Responsible Use of AI,” Moderator, at AI in Education Summit, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, May 2025.

“Empowering Student Creation and Creativity through Digital Tools,” opening keynote at Best Practices in Teaching and Learning, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, February 2024.

“Institutionalizing the Digital Liberal Arts,” keynote workshop at AMICAL annual conference, American University of Ifrane, Morocco, May 2023.

“Building DH Capacity at North American Public Liberal Arts Colleges,” presentation, Building DH Symposium, November 18, 2022, Western Sydney University, virtual.

“Digital Fluency in a Public Liberal Arts Institution,” co-presentation with Lee Skallerup Bessette, OERXDOMAIN Conference, 2021, virtual, https://open.library.okstate.edu/oerxdomain2021guide/chapter/digital-fluency-in-a-public-liberal-arts-institution/.

“Reviewing Digital History,” Chair and co-panelist, Organization of American Historians, April 2018, Sacramento, CA.

“Teaching Hidden History: Learning by Developing Digital Modules,” Chair and commentator at American Historical Association, January 2018, Washington, DC.

“Claiming a Digital Scholarly Identity for Students and Faculty,” at DISSH Symposium, East Carolina University, March 2017, Greenville, NC.

Presentations at several sessions, including “THATCampAHA—Digital Fluency” and “DH Syllabus Building” at American Historical Association, January 2017, Denver, CO.

“Digital Humanities and the Civil War,” invited presentation to Nau Center at the University of Virginia, November 2016.

“Collaborative Annotation in the History Classroom,” invited panelist for webinar on Hypothes.is, May 2016.

“Claiming the Digital Liberal Arts: Learning, Knowledge Creation, & Identity,” keynote address at Spring Professional Activities Workshop for the University of Minnesota and Macalester College, May 2016, St. Paul, MN.

Presentations at several sessions, including “Digital Pedagogy Techniques for History” and “Implementing the AHA’s Tenure and Promotion Guidelines for Digital Scholarship” (sessions with Department Chairs and in open forum) at American Historical Association, January 2016, Atlanta, GA.

“Students Helping Students use Technology,” co-presenter at EduCon 2.8, January 2016, Philadelphia, PA.

“Imagining Digital Scholarship and Learning at Marquette,” invited plenary speaker, October 2015, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI.

“Claiming Digital Humanities for Undergraduates: Learning, Production and Digital Identity,” invited plenary speaker, September 2015, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA.

“Integrating Digital Humanities into Undergraduate History Courses,” invited talk, Sept. 2015, University of Colorado-Boulder.

“Digital Humanities and Teaching,” invited panelist at the Organization of American Historians Conference, April 2015, St. Louis, MO.

“The JAH in the Digital Age,” invited panelist at the Organization of American Historians Conference, April 2015, St. Louis, MO.

“Claiming One Future for Digital Humanities: Undergraduate Learning, Creation, & Ownership,” plenary address at Exploring the Digital Medium: Cross Disciplinary Collaboration in the Digital Humanities, February 2015, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS.

“Crafting a Digital Identity,” organized and presented session at EduCon 2.7, January 2015, Science Leadership Academy, Philadelphia, PA.

“Century America,” invited panelist for the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) Conference, January 2015, Washington, DC.

“Digital Pedagogy for History: Domain of One’s Own and History Classes,” invited panelist for the American Historical Association Conference, January 2015, New York, NY.

“Advanced Digital Pedagogy,” invited workshop leader as part of the American Historical Association pre-conference workshop on “Getting Started in Digital History,” January 2015, New York, NY.

“Outward-facing Teaching and Learning,” invited presentation at OpenVA Conference, October 2014, Tidewater Community College, Virginia Beach, VA.

“Getting into Digital History,” and “Lessons Learned for Military History,” invited panelist at Military & Digital History NEH/ODH Workshop, October 2014, Northeastern University, Boston, MA.

“Reach Them and They Will Come: New Approaches for the Archival Educator,” invited panelist, Society of American Archivists, August 2014, Washington, DC.

“Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age,” Keynote Address, Potomac & Chesapeake Association for College Admission Counseling, July 2014, Fredericksburg, Virginia.

“Century America: A Case Study in Distance Learning,” Council on Undergraduate Research, June 2014, Washington, DC.

“Century America,” Plenary presentation at Council on Public Liberal Arts Colleges, June 2014, Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado.

“Digital Studies in the Undergraduate Classroom,” Plenary Speaker at Truman State Student Research Conference, April 2014, Kirksville, Missouri.

“Murder at the Asylum: A Pinkerton Detective in Readjuster Virginia,” paper presented to the Organization of American Historians Conference, April 2014, Atlanta, Georgia.

“Doing Digital History with Undergraduates,” panelist for the American Historical Association Conference, January 4, 2014, Washington, DC.

“Teaching with Digital Tools,” invited workshop leader as part of the American Historical Association pre-conference workshop on “Getting Started in Digital History,” January 2, 2014, Washington, DC.

“Teaching in the Open,” presenter and panel organizer for the State Council of Higher Education of Virginia’s Open VA Conference, March 7, 2013, Fredericksburg, Virginia. [Postponed to October 15, 2013]

“Minding the Future: Visions of Higher Ed,” moderator at pre-OpenVA Conference, October 14, 2013, Fredericksburg, Virginia.

“A SWAT Team for Old Digital Humanities Sites,” session led at Center for History & New Media, George Mason University, June 8, 2013, Fairfax, Virginia.

“WordPress as a Public History Platform,” panelist for the National Council for Public History Conference, April 18, 2013, Ottawa, Canada.

“Using Omeka for Public History,” and “Integrating Public History & Digital History Training,” proposed and presented at THATCamp NCPH, April 17, 2013, Ottawa, Canada.

“Undergraduates as Digital Scholars,” panelist for the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) Conference, January 24, 2013, Atlanta, Georgia.

“Teaching Digital History,” invited conference workshop and “Classrooms and Learning Spaces of the Future,” session led at THATCamp American Historical Association, January 3, 2013, New Orleans, Louisiana.

“Re-Creating the Mid-Twentieth Century College Classroom using University Archives,” invited presentation for Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, October 26, 2012, Richmond, Virginia.

“Consequences of the Brothers’ War,” invited panel comment at Society of Civil War Historians Conference, June 16, 2012, Lexington, Kentucky.

“The Virginia Forum on the Web: Collaborative Crowdsourcing,” co-organized and co-presented at the Seventh Virginia Forum, James Madison University, March 29-31, 2012, Harrisonburg, Virginia.

“Building Bridges: Communities of Practice for K-16,” co-presented at EduCon 2.4, January 28, 2012, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

“Teaching with Social Media,” presentation as part of digital poster session, “Digital Humanities: Digital Methods in Research and Teaching in History,” at the American Historical Association Conference, January 6, 2012, Chicago, Illinois.

“So, You Want to Teach a Digital History Class?,” invited conference workshop and “The Problem of Old Digital History Sites,” session led at THATCamp American Historical Association, January 5, 2012, Chicago, Illinois.

“Teaching DH 101: Introduction to the Digital Humanities,” invited panelist for web seminar, National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE), December 16, 2011, online.

“Teaching with Omeka/Uses for Omeka,” invited conference workshops at THATCamp Pedagogy, Vassar College, October 15, 2011, Poughkeepsie, New York.

“Is Digital Literacy a Done Deal?,” proposed and presented at THATCamp, Center for History & New Media, George Mason University, June 4, 2011, Fairfax, Virginia.

“Jump-starting Your Digital Media Projects: Teaching, Connecting, and Publishing,” co-organized and presented as featured conference session and workshop at the Sixth Virginia Forum, Washington and Lee, March 24, 2011, Lexington, Virginia.

“Murder at the Asylum: Poisoning, Politics, Pinkertons, and Psychology in Late-Nineteenth-Century Virginia,” presented to the Social Research Colloquium, University of Mary Washington, February 23, 2011, Fredericksburg, Virginia.

“Finding Their Own Way: Student Digital History Projects,” poster session co-organized and presented at the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Annual Meeting, February 14, 2011, Washington, D.C.

“Collaborative Assessment,” co-presented at EduCon 2.3, January 29, 2011, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

“Teaching and Learning with Student-Generated, Online, Creative, and Public New Media,” invited keynote presentation at Teaching and Learning with Technology Conference, James Madison University, October 8, 2010, Harrisonburg, Virginia.

“Perspectives from the Periphery: Race, Gender, and Politics in the Contested Border South,” invited panel comment at Society of Civil War Historians Conference, June 19, 2010, Richmond, Virginia.

“Confederate Veteran Families in Virginia,” presented as an invited talk in the Banner Lecture Series, Virginia Historical Society, June 10, 2010, Richmond, Virginia. http://www.vahistorical.org/news/lectures_mcclurken.htm

“Constructing a Digital Humanities Curriculum for Undergraduates,” co-proposed and presented at THATCamp, Center for History & New Media, George Mason University, May 22-23, 2010, Fairfax, Virginia.

“Faculty Academy at UMW as Professional Development,” co-presenter, web seminar for New Media Consortium, May 21, 2010, online.

“Digital Tools for Creating an Electronic History of Virginia,” presented at the Fifth Virginia Forum, April 17, 2010, Newport News, Virginia.

“Humanities in the Digital Age,” co-presented at the American Historical Association Conference, January 8, 2010, San Diego, California. [Full-day session cosponsored by the AHA Research Division.]

“Blogs, Wikis, and Open-Source, Oh My!: Assessing Uses of Digital Tools in Teaching and Learning,” presented at the 10^th Conference of the International Society for Scholarship on Teaching and Learning, October 25, 2009, Bloomington, Indiana.

“Archiving Social Media Conversations of Significant Events,” presented at THATCamp, Center for History & New Media, George Mason University, June 27-28, 2009, Fairfax, Virginia.

“Strategic Planning, Digital Humanities, and Academic Computing: How to Get Money for Wild and Crazy (Academic) Times,” presented at THATCamp, Center for History & New Media, George Mason University, June 27-28, 2009, Fairfax, Virginia.

“’Uncomfortable, but Not Paralyzed’: Challenging Traditional Classroom Boundaries with Undergraduates and Digital History,” presented at the 3^rd HASTAC Conference, April 21, 2009, Urbana, Illinois.

“Teaching History with Digital Tools: A Roundtable Discussion,” presented at the American Association for History and Computing Conference, April 4, 2009, Fairfax, Virginia.

“Tossing the Term Paper: Integrating Teaching and Research in Online Digital History Projects,” presented at the American Historical Association Conference, January 4, 2009, New York, New York.

“Teaching Undergraduates using Blogs,” invited presentation at WordCamp Ed DC 2008, Center for History & New Media, George Mason University, November 22, 2008, Fairfax, Virginia.

“Saving Virginia’s Confederate Veteran Families: Baptist Churches and Support in Pittsylvania County and Danville,” presented at the Society of Civil War Historians, June 16, 2008, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

“Integrating Teaching and Research through Digital History,” presented at The Humanities and Technology Camp (THATCamp), Center for History & New Media, George Mason University, May 31, 2008, Fairfax, Virginia.

Chair for Panel on “The Centennial of the University of Mary Washington,” presented at the Third Virginia Forum Conference, April 11, 2008, Fredericksburg, Virginia.

Comment on Panel on “Violence in the Neighborhood,” presented at the Second Virginia Forum Conference, April 13, 2007, Richmond, Virginia.

“Widows, Wives, and Women Rebuilding the Confederate Veteran Family in the Immediate Postwar Pittsylvania County and Danville, Virginia,” presented at the Seventh Conference on Southern Women’s History, June 10, 2006, Baltimore, Maryland.

“Adjuncting and Your Career,” presented at the Seventh Conference on Southern Women’s History, June 9, 2006, Baltimore, Maryland.

“Reconstructing the Confederate Veteran Family in Pittsylvania County and Danville: An Analysis of Population Census Records,” presented at the Virginia Forum Conference, April 7-8, 2006, Winchester, Virginia.

“The State, Insanity, and Virginia’s Confederate Veterans and Their Families,” presented at the Southern Historical Association Conference, November 8, 2002, Baltimore, Maryland.

“Local Support Networks after the Civil War: The Case of William T. Sutherlin and Pittsylvania County’s Veteran Families,” presented at the Southern Intellectual History Circle/Douglass Southall Freeman Civil War Conference, February 23, 2002, Richmond, Virginia.

“Government Aid to Virginia’s Confederate Veterans and Their Families,” presented at The Veteran and American Society Conference, University of Tennessee, November 12, 2000, Knoxville, Tennessee.

“Virginia Women Unionists before the Southern Claims Commission,” presented at the Fifth Conference on Southern Women’s History, June 16, 2000, Richmond, Virginia.

BOOK REVIEWS

McClurken, Jeffrey W. Review of Mending Broken Soldiers: The Union and Confederate Programs to Supply Artificial Limbs by Guy Hasegawa. Civil War History 60, no. 3 (2014): 352-353.

________. Review of Moments of Despair: Suicide, Divorce, and Debt in Civil War Era North Carolina, by David Silkenat. Journal of the Civil War Era 3 (March 2013): 144-146.

________. Review of Sing Not War: The Lives of Union and Confederate Veterans in Gilded Age America, by James Marten. Journal of American History 99 (September 2012): 598-599.

________. Review of The Big House after Slavery: Virginia Plantation Families and Their Postbellum Domestic Experiment, by Amy Morsman. Journal of Southern History 78 (May 2012): 481-483.

________. Review of Heroes and Cowards: The Social Face of War, by Dora L. Costa and Matthew E. Kahn. Journal of Southern History 77 (August 2011): 734-735.

________. Review of Confederate Daughters: Coming of Age during the Civil War, by Victoria E. Ott. Journal of American History 96, no. 1 (June 2009): 231-32.

________. Review of Crucible of War, edited by Gary Gallagher, Edward Ayers, and Andrew Torgut. Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 116, no. 1 (2008): 88-89.

________. Review of Virginia at War, 1861, edited by William C. Davis and James I. Robertson. Journal of American History 93 (September 2006): 533-534.

________. Review of Soldiers of Peace: Civil War Pacifism and the Postwar Radical Peace Movement, by Thomas Curran. H-CivWar Discussion List, http://www.h-net.org/reviews/, August 2005.

________. Review of Subversives: Antislavery Community in Washington, D.C., 1828-1865, by Stanley Harrold. Maryland Historical Magazine 98 (Summer 2003): 238-240.

________. Review of Southern Rights: Political Prisoners and the Myth of Confederate Constitutionalism, by Mark Neely. H-South Discussion List, http://www.h-net.org/reviews/, January 2001.

________. Review of Parties, Politics, and the Sectional Conflict in Tennessee, 1832-1861, by Jonathan Atkins. Maryland Historical Magazine 92 (Fall 1997): 397-98.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL/SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES

Leading Workshops or Consulting

Digital Drop-in Session, American Historical Association Meeting, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022 (virtual), 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026; Organizer of Digital Projects Showcase, 2023-2026.
Workshop leader for “Designing Digital Assignments,” Best Practices in Teaching and Learning Conference at Kahlifa University in Abu Dhabi and Amity University in Dubai, UAE, February 2024.
Workshop leader for “The End of Digital Projects,” AMICAL conference at American University of Ifrane, Morocco, May 2023.
Consultant and Workshop Leader, Mellon-funded Digital Liberal Arts Initiative, AMICAL, Online, 2021-2022.
American Historical Association Workshop for Department Chairs, Chicago, June 2018, July 2019
Consultant, Mellon Funded Grant, Whittier College & Connecticut College, June 2019
AMICAL DHIB Digital Humanities Workshop, Beirut, Lebanon, May 2019
Digital Humanities Workshops, Roanoke College, March & May 2017
COPLACDigital Workshops, Co-Leader/Organizer, UMW, September 2016, February & June 2017
External reviewer, History Department, Shepherd University, November 2016
Domain of One’s Own Workshop, Co-Leader, Digital Pedagogy Lab, UMW, August 2016
Teaching Digital History Workshop, Doing Digital History Summer Institute, RRCHNM, July 2016
Digital Pedagogy Workshop for Holocaust Museum, June 2016
Digital History Workshop for UNCA History Department and Library, June 2016
Digital Pedagogy and Course Design at Spring Workshop for Macalester College and University of Minnesota, May 2016 (with Rebecca Wingo)
Digital Pedagogy Workshops for Lynchburg College, April 2016 & May 2017
Online and Blended Pedagogy Workshop for Randolph Macon College, February 2016
Digital Pedagogy Workshop for Shenandoah University, October 2015
Workshop for Marquette History Department, October 2015
Digital Pedagogy Workshop for University of Colorado—Boulder, September 2015
Workshop on Digital Humanities Programs for University of Colorado—Denver, September 2015
Digital Humanities Workshop for Elizabethtown College, September 2015
Teagle-funded Digital Liberal Arts Workshop for Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges, March 2015 (with Ellen Pearson)
“Integrating Digital Humanities in Pedagogy: Choosing Courses, Learning Objectives and Tools Workshop,” Kansas State University, February 2015
Digital Pedagogy Workshops for Virginia Wesleyan College, February-March 2015
Workshop Leader & Member of Selection Committee, Doing Digital History Summer Institute at GMU-RRCHNM, funded by NEH-Office of Digital Humanities, January-August 2014
Digital Pedagogy Workshop, Holocaust Museum, June 17, 2014
Digital Humanities Workshop for Dickinson College, January 10, 2014
External Reviewer, History Department, Gettysburg College, 2014
Digital Liberal Arts Workshop for UNC-Ashville, May 22-24, 2013
Digital Studies Workshop for Davidson College, May 2, 2013
Digital History Workshop for St. Bonaventure History Department, 2012
External reviewer, Media Studies/Digital Humanities Program, Davidson College, 2012

Reviewing

Outside Grant Reviewer, Canada Foundation for Innovation, 2025
Member, Review board of Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (JITP), 2011-present.
Reviewer, SCHEV Outstanding Faculty Awards, 2015.
NEH Office of Digital Humanities Reviewer, 2012, 2015, 2017.
NEH Office of Public Projects Reviewer, 2014.
Article Manuscript Reviewer, Journal of Southern History (2009); Civil War History (2009, 2011); JITP (2012); Journal of American History (2013), Journal of the Civil War Era (Issue reviewer 2014).
Book Manuscript Reviewer
- University of Virginia Press, 2013; Routledge, 2006, 2010; University of Nebraska Press, 2005.
EDUCAUSE Program Proposal Reviewer, 2007, 2011.
Outside Grant Reviewer, Sam Houston State University, 2010.
Digital Humanities Proposal Reviewer, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2008.
Text Reviewer, Bedford Books, 2003, 2005.

Conference Organizing

Co-Organizer, Mellon-funded Digital Liberal Arts Convening for COPLACDigital project, Asheville, NC, June 2016.
Co-Organizer, THATCamp AHA, with AHA, Kathryn Tomasek, and Lisa Rhody, January 2014.
Co-Organizer, THATCamp Virginia, with UVA Scholars’ Lab and Virginia Tech, November 2013.
Co-Organizer, THATCamp Virginia, with UVA Scholars’ Lab, December 2010.
Co-Organizer, Archiving Social Media Conference, University of Mary Washington & CHNM at George Mason University, October 2010.
Chair, Virginia Forum Local Arrangements Committee, Program Committee member, March 2008.

Academic Organizations

Executive Committee Member, Council on Public Liberal Arts Colleges, COPLAC Board of Directors, 2021-2025.
Member, AI Committee, State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, 2023-2025.
Chair, Digital History Working Group, American Historical Association, 2015-2027.
Member, Roy Rosenzweig Prize Committee, American Historical Association, 2015-2018.
Member, Open Virginia Advisory Committee, State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, 2015-2017.
Member, Virginia SARA (State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements) Advisory Committee, State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, 2015-2017.
Member, THATCamp Council, 2014-2015.
Member, Nominating Committee, Society for Civil War Historians, 2011-2012.
Member, Southern Historical Association Membership Committee, 2009-2010, 2011-2012.
Member, Willie Lee Rose Book Prize Committee, Southern Association of Women Historians, 2011.
Member, Virginia Forum Planning Committee, 2006-2013; Virginia Forum Editorial Board, 2009-2013; Virginia Forum Website committee, 2010-2015.

Other Activities

Chair, Commonwealth of Virginia COVID Directors, 2020-2022.
Scholarly Advisory Board Member, American Archive of Public Broadcasting, April 2018-present.
Committee Member, Educational Technology Plan for Virginia (2017–2022), Virginia Department of Education, 2017.
Advisory Board Member, is, March 2016-2020.
Humanities Advisory Board Member, org, January 2015-2020.
Advisory Board Member, Military History and Digital History NEH-ODH-funded workshop, 2013-2014.
Digital Content Advisory Board Member, The American Yawp, an openly available American History Textbook, 2014-present.
Member, Fredericksburg/Stafford Civil War Sesquicentennial Committee, 2008-2015.
Contributor to Rübrick Project, Finalist, Jetpack for Learning Design Challenge, Mozilla Foundation, 2010. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Education/Projects/JetpackForLearning/Profiles/Rubrick.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

American Historical Association

EDUCAUSE

Organization of American Historians

Society for the History of Technology

Society of Civil War Historians

Southern Historical Association

Southern Association for Women Historians

CAMPUS COMMITTEE SERVICE

Appointed and Volunteer Committees

· Co-Chair, University Strategic Planning Steering Committee, 2025-2026.

· President’s Cabinet, 2017-present.

· UMW Capital Campaign Steering Committee, 2025-present.

· Co-Chair, Comprehensive Campus & Building Planning Committee, 2023-2024.

· COVID-19 Implementation Team, Co-Coordinator, 2020-2021, Director, 2021-2022.

· Public Health Advisory Working Group, 2021-present.

· Provost’s Academic Affairs Council, 2014-2021.

· IT Portfolio Committee, 2015-present.

· President’s Leadership Council, 2014-present.

· Chair of Washington Scholars Selection Committee, 2012-present. Chair of Alvey Scholars Selection Committee, 2009, 2011. Member of Washington Scholars Selection Committee, 2007, 2008, 2010.

· Presidential Technology Advisory Council, 2012-2018; Founding Chair, 2012-2014.

· IT Accessibility Committee, 2016-2018.

· University Distance and Blended Learning Committee, 2014-2017.

· University Scholarship Committee, 2014-2016, 2017-present.

· Presidential Scheduling System Selection Task Force, Co-Chair, 2013-2014.

· Convergence Center Planning Committee, 2010-2014; Chair of HCC Building Users Group, 2014-present.

· James Farmer Professorship Committee, 2009-present. James Farmer Legacy Group, 2008-2009.

· Faculty/Alumni Representative to the UMW Alumni Association Board of Directors, 2006-2014. Member of Alumni Association Reunion Awards Committee, 2007-2010, 2013. Chair of Alumni Association Senior Awards Committee, 2007-2011.

· Alumni Survey Committee, 2010-present.

· UMW Discrimination Complaint Panelist Pool, 2011-2013.

· University Presidential Inauguration Committee, Co-Chair, 2010-2011

· Digital & Information Fluency QEP planning subcommittee, Convener, 2010-2011.

· Monroe Hall Renovation Committee, 2008-2011.

· Year of the Digital Campus Planning Committee, 2009-2010.

· College of Arts & Sciences Strategic Planning Committee, 2009-2010. Subcommittees on Faculty Role in Recruitment and Interdisciplinary Programs.

· University Strategic Planning Steering Committee, 2008-2009. Subcommittee on Academic Technologies and Libraries. Liaison to Alumni Relations.

· Zotero Event Planning Group, Chair, 2009.

· University Ad-hoc Social Networking Initiatives Committee, 2008-2009.

· Committee on Academic Standing, 2006-2008.

· Institutional Review Board, 2005-2008.

· Provost’s Ad-hoc University Committee on Digital Initiatives, Chair, 2008.

· University Photo Resources Committee, 2006-2008.

· Teaching and Learning Technologies Roundtable, 2003-2007. Member of Executive Committee, 2003-2005, 2006-2007.

· Campus Academic Resources Committee, 2002-2005. Chair, 2003-2004.
Search Committees

· Search Committee for VP for Finance and Administration & CFO, Chair, 2022.

· Search Committee for University Internal Auditor, Chair, 2022.

· Search Committee for VP for Advancement, Chair, 2021.

· Search Committee for Executive Director of University Communications, Chair, 2021.

· Search Committee for University Internal Auditor, Chair, 2018.

· Search Committee for Director of Digital Communications, 2017.

· Search Committee for Digital Resources Librarian, 2016.

· Search Committee for Chief Information Officer, 2016.

· Search Committee for Program Associate, Chair, 2016.

· Search Committee for James Farmer Post-Doctoral Fellow, 2010-2011, 2012-2013, 2015-2016.

· Search Committee for Executive Director of DTLT, Chair, 2015.

· Search Committee for ITCC Building/Digital Auditorium Manager, Chair, 2014-2015.

· Search Committee for SAPTTI/QEP Admin Assistant, 2014.

· Search Committee for Digital Resources Librarian, 2013.

· Search Committee for American Studies/US History, Chair, 2013

· Search Committee for UMW Director of Digital Communications, 2013.

· Search Committee for American Colonial History, 2012-2013.

· Search Committee for US Early Republic/Antebellum, Chair, 2011-2012.

· Search Committee for Teaching and Learning Technologies ITS in the humanities, 2011-2012.

· Search Committee for James Monroe Papers Assistant Director, 2012.

· James Monroe Museum Director Search, 2011.

· Search Committee for University Librarian, Chair, 2010.

· Search Committee for Early American History, Chair, 2009-2010.

· Search Committee for University Teaching Center Director, 2008.

· Search Committee for American Studies, 2007-2008.

· Search Committee for US Immigration/Ethnicity, 2005-2006.

· Search Committee for Asian History, 2004.

Invited University Talks

· Numerous roles in welcoming prospective students and visiting groups to UMW, 2017-present.

· Faculty Speaker, Information and Technology Convergence Center Opening Ceremony, 2014.

· Opening Welcome from UMW, OpenVA Conference, 2013.

· Senior Graduation Convocation Keynote, 2012.

· Honor Convocation Faculty Speaker, 2008, 2011.

· Invited Keynote, Alumni Legacy Breakfast, 2012

· Faculty Speaker, Monroe Hall Rededication Ceremony, 2011.

Curricular Committees

· Communication and Digital Studies Curriculum Committee and Affiliated Faculty, 2012-present.

· Museum Studies Advisory Committee (2012-2015) and Affiliated Faculty, 2012-present; Chair of Host Department, 2012-2014.

· Women’s and Gender Studies Affiliated Faculty, 2010-present.

· American Studies Program and Curriculum Committee, 2006-present.

· Dean’s Working Group on a program in Social Justice, 2011-2012.

· Race and Gender Curriculum Advisory Committee, 2003-2006. Chair, 2004-2005.

COURSES TAUGHT – See mcclurken.org for links to all classes.

United States History to 1865
Historical Methods
Race, Class, and Gender in Nineteenth-Century America
U.S. Women’s History to 1870
U.S. Women’s History since 1870
American Technology and Culture
Civil War and Reconstruction
U.S. History in Film — (Honors course, 2014-) — Class session on Gone with the Wind recorded and televised by C-SPAN — http://www.c-span.org/History/Events/Lectures-in-History-Gone-with-the-Wind/10737437341/; Interview about the course on With Good Reason (http://withgoodreasonradio.org/2014/12/give-war-and-peace-a-chance/).
Nineteenth-Century American Families
Remembering the American Civil War
Post-Civil War South in History and Literature (co-taught with Dr. Michael Bibler, ELS)
When Americans Came Marching Home: The Veteran in U.S. History (FSEM)
Digital History (Honors course, 2016à)
TED.com – Ideas Worth Sharing (FSEM co-taught with Dr. Timothy O’Donnell, ELC)
History of the Information Age (Honors course, 2014-)
History of US Mental Institutions
Century America – (course co-taught in 2014 and 2015 with Dr. Ellen Holmes Pearson, UNCA, virtually with 24 students from 15 different COPLAC schools and sponsored by the Teagle Foundation) – Course site: http://course.centuryamerica.org/ – Project site: http://centuryamerica.org/
Beyond the Selfie: Identity in the Digital Age (FSEM co-created with several UMW colleagues)

REFERENCES

Available on request

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