Curriculum Vita

Education

Ph.D, History, University of Arkansas, Summer 2020.

Dissertation: “A Suspected Democratic Regiment: The Fourth New Hampshire Volunteers in the American Civil War.”

M.A., History, University of Central Florida, Summer 2011.

Thesis: “The Ancient City Occupied: St. Augustine As A Test Case For Stephen Ash’s Civil War Occupation Model.”

B.A., History, University of Central Florida, Spring 2007.

Employment

Aug. 2020—Present Instructor, University of Arkansas.

Aug. 2022—May 2023 Adjunct Instructor, University of Arkansas Fort Smith.

Aug. 2019—Present Adjunct Instructor, Northwest Arkansas Community College.

Aug. 2018—August 2020 Lecturer, University of Arkansas.

Aug.—Dec. 2017 Adjunct Instructor, University of the Ozarks.

Aug. 2014—May 2017 Graduate Research Assistant, University of Arkansas.

August 2011—August 2014 Curriculum Developer and Research Analyst, Institute for Simulation and Training, University of Central Florida.

Nov. 2008—July 2011 Research Associate for the Institute for Simulation and Training, University of Central Florida.

Current Manuscript Projects

“A Suspected Democratic Regiment:” The Fourth New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry in the American Civil War. (In Progress)

“A Desperate Stand”: The Second Battle of Pocotaligo. (In Progress)

Publications

Book Chapters

“The 1862 Occupation of Saint Augustine, Florida, and the Politics of Emancipation” in Matthew Stith and David Schieffler eds. Hundreds of Little Wars: Community, Conflict, and the Real Civil. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2025.

Book Reviews

From Gray to Blue: Galvanized Yankees in the American Civil War. By Patrick H. Garrow. The Journal of Southern History (Forthcoming).

Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation. By Zaakir Tameez. H-Pol, H-Net Reviews. (August 2026).

The Compleat Victory: Saratoga and the American Revolution. By Kevin J. Weddle. Marine Corps History, Vol. 9, No. 1, Summer 2023, pg. 74-76.

Gettysburg: The Living and the Dead. By Kent Gramm & Chris Heisey. H-War, H-Net Reviews. June, 2022.

Changing Sides: Union Prisoners of War Who Joined the Confederacy. By Patrick H. Garrow. The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 88, No. 1, February 2022, pg. 172-173.

Georgia’s Civil War: Conflict on the Home Front. By David Williams. The Journal of Military History, Vol. 82, No. 4, October 2018, pg. 1287-1288.

Occupied Vicksburg. By Bradley Clampitt. The Journal of Military History, Vol. 81, No. 4, October 2017, pg. 1174-1175.

The Union Raid on Richmond, 1864. By Bruce M. Venter, The Journal of Military History, Vol. 81, No. 1, January 2017, pg. 236-37.

“City Biographies, Memory Construction, and Trends of Interdisciplinary Methodology in Civil War Scholarship” New Bedford's Civil War. By Earl F. Mulderink III. H-CivWar, H-Net Reviews. June, 2014.

“The Roots of Confederate Defeat: The Home Front, Military Occupation, and the Hard War and Loss of Morale Theses” War’s Desolating Scourge: The Union’s Occupation of North Alabama. By Joseph W. Danielson. H-CivWar, H-Net Reviews. April, 2013.

“Between Popular and Academic History: The Problem of Local Studies” Between Reb and Yank: A Civil War History of Northern Loudoun County, Virginia. By Taylor M. Chamberlin and John M. Souders. H-CivWar, H-Net Reviews. January, 2012.

Thunder on the River: The Civil War in Northeast Florida. By Daniel L. Schafer in The Southern Historian, Vol. 32, Spring 2011, pg. 91.

No Peace for the Wicked: Northern Protestant Soldiers and the American Civil War by David Rolfs in The Southern Historian, Vol. 31. Spring 2010, pg. 110.

“Remembering fallen heroes is not just for Memorial Day” Men of Granite: New Hampshire Soldiers during the Civil War. By Duane E. Shaffer. H-CivWar, H-Net Reviews. December, 2010.

War’s Relentless Hand: Twelve Tales of Civil War Soldiers by Mark Dunkelman. The Florida Historical Quarterly, Spring 2009, Vol. 87, No. 4. pg. 570-572.

Technical Research Publications

RAPTER Team. (2013). The Orange County Incident Command Reference Textbook. Institute of Simulation and Training, Orlando, FL.

Tarr, R. W. & Totten, E. P. (2012). “The State of Simulation: Technology, Usage, & Users in the 21st Century.” Law Officer Magazine Vol. 8, Issue 5, May 2012, pg. 74-75.

Tarr, R. W., Gammoh, D., Martin, J., Totten, E. P., & Booher, E. (2012). “Commercial Motor Vehicle Operators, Touchscreen Mp3 Player, and Cell Phone Induced Distraction.” Transportation Research Board Conference. Tampa, FL., March 17, 2012.

Tarr, R. W. & RAPTER Team. (2011). “The Impact of Distracted Driving on Commercial Motor Vehicle Operators.” Institute of Simulation and Training, Orlando, FL.

Tarr, R. W. & RAPTER Team. (2010). “Federal Law Enforcement Training Center Study Improving Training Through Technology Phase II Final Report.” Institute of Simulation and Training, Orlando, FL.

Tarr, R. W. & RAPTER Team. (2010) “OCFRD Command School Improvement Project Phase II Final Report.” Institute of Simulation and Training, Orlando, FL.

Tarr, R. W. & RAPTER Team. (2010). “OCFRD Command School Project Phase I Final Report.” Institute of Simulation and Training, Orlando, FL.

Invited Presentations

“The Second Battle of Pocotaligo, October 22, 1862.” The Bella Vista Arkansas Civil War Round Table, Bella Vista Arkansas, January 8, 2026.

“The Federal Department of the South with Eric Totten” Historians and Their Histories Podcast, Massachusetts Historical Society, December 1, 2025.

“Granite State Soldiers and the Occupation of the Department of the South, 1862–64.” New Hampshire Historical Society, February 20, 2025.

“The Connecticut Yankee Occupation of St. Augustine, FL., 1862-1865.” Connecticut Museum of Culture and History, November 12, 2024, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYmnzvqxUQ0.

“The Holzer Family’s Holocaust Experience.” Dr. Jennifer Hoyer’s How the Holocaust Affected Course, Department of Jewish Studies, University of Arkansas, March 5, 2024.

Conference Panels Organized

“Lines of Authority: Occupation, Obedience, and Opposition in Confederate Florida.” Moderator: Tracy J. Revels. Roundtable Participants: Angela Elder, Angela Zombek, & Eric Paul Totten. Society for Civil War Historians Nineth Biennial Conference, June 18-20, 2026, Richmond, VA.

“Race Relations and Military Occupation in the American South, 1861–1865.” Panel Chair and Commentators: Lorien Foote, Chandra Manning, Holly Pinheiro. Panel Participants: Eric Paul Totten, Madeleine Forrest, Ian Davis. Southern Historical Association Conference, November 3-6, 2021, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Conference Presentation Participant

“A Great Political Convulsion”: New England Soldiers and the “Negro Question” in the Federal Department of the South, 1861-1863.” Southern Historical Association Conference, November 5-8, 2026, Atlanta, Georgia.

“The Divided North: Teaching Historical Complexity in the U.S. History Survey” The Arkansas Association of College History Teachers Conference, September 24-25, 2026, Little Rock, Arkansas.

“The Northwest Arkansas Holocaust Awareness Project and Community Outreach.” The Arkansas Association of College History Teachers Conference, September 25-26, 2025, Little Rock, Arkansas.

““Demoralized on the Slavery Question”: The Fourth New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry’s Occupation of St. Augustine, FL. and the Politics of Emancipation.” The Florida Historical Association Annual Meeting, October 20-21, 2023, Orlando, FL.

“‘Freed by Order of Gen. Hunter”” and “‘Knocked Down by Order of the Soldiers:’” The Fourth New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry’s Occupation of St. Augustine, Florida and the Politics of Emancipation.” Southern Historical Association Conference, November 3-6, 2021, New Orleans, Louisiana.

“‘I Wonder How Many of the Augustinians of the Olden Time Will Ever Come Back:’ Union Occupation, Refugees, and Demographic Change in St. Augustine’s

Community, 1862-1865.” 2012 Gulf Coast History & Humanities Conference, October 18-20, 2012, Pensacola, Florida.

“I Wonder How Many of the Augustinians of the Olden Time Will Ever Come Back:” Union Occupation, Refugees, and Demographic Change in St. Augustine’s Community, 1862-1865. 2012 Florida Historical Society Annual Meeting May 24-26 2012, Tampa, Florida.

“St. Augustine Occupied: Military and Communal Relations in the Ancient City.” 2009 Florida Historical Society Annual Meeting, May 20-23, 2009, Pensacola, Florida.

“‘Pine Deserts’ and ‘Desolate Cities’: How Occupation Models Help Us Understand Eastern Florida’s Civil War Experience.” University of Central Florida History Department Graduate Student Conference April 14-16, 2008.

Teaching Experience

HIST 1113H: Honors Ideas and Institutions in World Civilizations to 1500.

HIST 1123H: Honor Ideas and Institutions in World Civilizations Since 1500.

HIST 1203: History of Football.

HIST 2003: History of the American People to 1877.

HIST 2013: History of the American People Since 1877.

HIST 3063: Military History.

HIST 3573: World War I.

HIST 3603: Colonial and Revolutionary America 1600-1789.

HIST 3613: Early National and Antebellum America, 1787-1848.

HIST 3973H: Honors Historical Methods.

HIST 42003: History of the Holocaust.

HIST 46103: Colonial America, 1600-1764.

HIST 4653: Antebellum America, 1828-1850.

HIST 4673: The American Civil War.

Professional Membership

Phi Alpha Theta.

The Connecticut Museum of Culture and History.

The Florida Historical Society.

The Massachusetts Historical Society.

The New Hampshire Historical Society.

The Society of Civil War Historians.

The Southern Historical Association.

The St. Augustine Historical Society.

External Awards, Fellowships, and Grants

2024-2025 New England Regional Consortium Fellowship $5,000.00.

Internal Awards, Fellowships, and Grants

2023 Travel Grant, Department of History, University of Arkansas.

2020 Jesse Taylor Jr. Endowed Scholarship in History, University of Arkansas.

2019 James J. Hudson Research Fellowship, University of Arkansas.

2018 Willard B. Gatewood Graduate Fellowship, University of Arkansas.

2018 James J. Hudson Research Fellowship, University of Arkansas.

2018 Arkansas Society of Mayflower Descendants Award.

2016 Jesse Taylor Jr. Endowed Scholarship, University of Arkansas.

2016-2017 Part-Time Graduate Assistantship, University of Arkansas.

2015 Jesse Taylor Jr. Endowed Scholarship, University of Arkansas.

2015-2016 Part-Time Graduate Assistantship, University of Arkansas.

2014-2015 Part-Time Graduate Assistantship, University of Arkansas.

2009 Graduate Student Travel Award, University of Central Florida.

2008 Graduate Teaching Assistant Certificate, University of Central Florida.

Service

2020-Present Northwest Arkansas Holocaust Awareness Project Co-Founder.

2021-2024 Publications Committee, University of Arkansas.

March 2020 NWACC History Day Judge.

2019-2020 Arkansas Adult Learning Alliance, Pope County, AR.

2015-2016 Graduate Student Congressmen.

2015-2016 Graduate Student Congress Social Chair.

2015-2016 Historical Organization of Graduate Students Secretary.

Media Appearances

“Arkansas professor, descendant of a Holocaust survivor, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day” 40/29 News, January 27, 2025.

Public Outreach Organized

“Night and Fog: The Nazi Concentration Camps.” Drs. Jennifer Hoyer, Richard D. Sonn, and Mr. Michael Johnson. March 3, 2025, Northwest Arkansas Community College, Northwest Arkansas Holocaust Awareness Project Event.

“Brother Nations: Nazi Germany, Denmark, and the Jewish Question.” Dr. Ryan Gesme. November 20, 2024, Northwest Arkansas Community College, Northwest Arkansas Holocaust Awareness Project Event.

“Antisemitism in Modern Conspiracy Theories.” Dr. Ryan Michael Neville-Shepard. March 4, 2024, Northwest Arkansas Community College, Northwest Arkansas Holocaust Awareness Project Event.

“The Global Impact of the Holocaust,” Dr. Jennifer Hoyer, November 13, 2023. Northwest Arkansas Community College, Northwest Arkansas Holocaust Awareness Project Event.

“Different Horrors, Same Hell: Jewish Women and the Holocaust.” Dr. Myrna Goldenberg. October 11, 2022, Northwest Arkansas Community College, Northwest Arkansas Holocaust Awareness Project Event.

“Explaining the Holocaust: A Book Discussion.” Drs. Sevin Gallo, Gene Vinzant, Matt Evans, Eric Paul Totten, Michael Johnson, & Marie Imus. Arkansas Humanities Council & Northwest Arkansas Holocaust Awareness Project Event. October 4, 2021.

“Theaters of Humiliation: A European History of Antisemitism.” T. Fielder Valone, Katherine White, Sevin Gallo. Northwest Arkansas Community College, Northwest Arkansas Holocaust Awareness Project Event.

“Inaugural Lecture.” Dr. Erika Briesacher. November 17, 2020, Northwest Arkansas Community College, Northwest Arkansas Holocaust Awareness Project Event.