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Gregory Downs is a Professor and Department Chair in the Department of History at the University of California, Davis. His research focuses on 19th-century U.S. political and cultural history, particularly the Civil War, emancipation, and Reconstruction. He leads the Mapping Occupation digital project documenting the U.S. Army's post-Civil War occupation of the South.
- Ph.D. in History from University of Pennsylvania (2006)
- M.A. in History from Northwestern University (2003)
- MFA in Fiction Writing from University of Iowa (1999)
- B.A. in History from Yale University (1993)
His work bridges academic and public history, including co-authoring the National Park Service's Reconstruction Theme Study and advising the Park Service's handbook on Reconstruction. Recent research explores transnational connections between the U.S. Civil War and contemporaneous crises in Spain and Central America.
Recipient of UC Davis' Distinguished Scholarly Public Service Award (2018) and elected to the Society of American Historians. His 2016 Brose Lectures at Penn State formed the basis of his latest book examining the U.S. Civil War as part of an international revolutionary wave.
Labs/Teams: Leads the digital humanities initiative Mapping Occupation and collaborates on transnational history projects. Active in public scholarship through media engagements with The Atlantic and New York Times.
