Society for Women and the Civil War
Society for Women and the Civil War, Inc.
Box #9066
8345 NW 66th St.
Miami, FL 33166
(804) 244-1864
www.swcw.org
David Sikenat
david.silkenat@ndsu.edu
(701) 231-9773
North Dakota State University
FLC 210H, PO Box 5057
Fargo, ND 58102-5057
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Assistant Professor of History and Education, North Dakota State University, 2008 – present
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in History, UNC – Chapel Hill (2008)
Dissertation: "Suicide, Divorce, and Debt in Civil War Era North Carolina."
Advisor: W. Fitzhugh Brundage
Minor Fields in Archaeology and Ancient History
M.A., in History, UNC – Chapel Hill (2005)
Thesis: "By His Own Hand: Suicide and Social Change in Nineteenth Century North Carolina." Advisor: James Leloudis
A.B. in History, Duke University, cum laude (1999)
Minor in Classics
Secondary Teacher Certification
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
“Moments of Despair: Suicide, Divorce, and Debt in Civil War Era North Carolina” (under review).
ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
“Workers in the White City: Migrant Labor at the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893” (under review).

“‘Hard Times is the Cry’: Debt in Populist Thought in North Carolina” in Southern Populism Revisited: New Interpretations and New Departures, ed.
James Matthew Beeby. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, forthcoming.

ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
“Suicide in the South” in The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, vol. 22: Violence, ed. Amy Wood. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,
forthcoming.

“Social and Economic Mobility” in American Centuries: The Ideas, Issues, and Trends that Made U.S History, vol. 4 (19th Century), ed. by Melanie
Gustafson. New York: Facts on File, forthcoming.

“Suicide” and “George Moses Horton” in Encyclopedia of Slavery in the Americas. Edited by Edward E. Baptist. New York: Facts On File, forthcoming.

GRANTS & AWARDS
GEAB Impact Award, Graduate School, UNC-Chapel Hill (2008)
Travel Grant, Graduate School, UNC-Chapel Hill (2008)
William F. Holmes Award, Southern Historical Association (2007)
Mowry Dissertation Fellowship, Department of History, UNC-Chapel Hill (2006)
Archie K. Davis Fellowship, North Caroliniana Society (2006)