Dr. Brian D. McKnight
Assistant Professor of History
Office: A210A
Phone: (325) 942-2112
E-mail: brian.mcknight@angelo.edu
Ph.D., Mississippi State University
M.A., East Tennessee State University
B.A., University of Virginia's College of Wise
Areas of Specialization:
Civil War and Reconstruction
The South
The National Republic
Member, Concho Valley Civil War Roundtable
Scholarship: Dr. McKnight’s book, Contested Borderland: The Civil War in Appalachian Kentucky and Virginia ( Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2006), won the James I. Robertson, Jr., Prize for Confederate History. In addition to Contested Borderland, he is editor of Life in the Coal Towns of Wise County, Virginia (Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, 2008). He has authored numerous articles, among them "Hope and Humiliation: Humphrey Marshall, the Mountaineers, and the Confederacy's Last Chance in Eastern Kentucky," Ohio Valley History 5 (Fall 2005); and "The Ku Klux Klan and the End of Reconstruction," in The Legacy of Black Reconstruction, 1865-1877, Dorothy Drinkard Hawkshawe ed. (Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1998). Forthcoming works include To Perish by the Sword: Champ Ferguson's Civil War and chapters in two different Civil War books. His book reviews have appeared in the American Historical Review, the Journal of American History, the Journal of Southern History, and numerous other international, national, state, and regional publications.
Awards and Honors: Distinguished Alumnus, Department of History, East Tennessee State University, 2004; Pi Gamma Mu, 1998; Recipient, Kentucky Library and Museum Fellowship, Western Kentucky University, 2004; Recipient, College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Fellowship, Mississippi State University, 2002-03; and numerous other Fellowships, Scholarships, and Grants. While at Angelo State, he has received three Faculty Innovation Grants which have allowed him to research in such places as Washington, D.C.; Charlottesville, VA; Richmond, VA; Nashville, TN; Knoxville, TN; Independence, MO; and Abilene, KS.
McKnight is a member of the Phi Alpha Theta, Kentucky Historical Society, Society of Civil War Historians, Southern Historical Association, and Virginia Historical Society.
