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Matthew M. Stith is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Tyler, located in the College of Arts and Sciences. He holds a B.A. from Missouri Southern State University, an M.A., and a Ph.D. from the University of Arkansas. His research focuses on American history, particularly the intersections of environmental history, military conflict, and borderlands dynamics. He teaches courses on the Civil War era, environmental history, and the Vietnam War, and mentors MA students in these fields.
Prof. Stith is the author or editor of four books, including Camp Ford’s Civil War: Nature, Community, and Captivity in the Dark Corner of the Confederacy (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press). He has written extensively on topics such as guerrilla warfare in the Civil War, environmental impacts of warfare, and the cultural history of wildlife in the American South. His current projects include a book on black bears in Southern history and an exploration of wildlife’s role in the Civil War.
- Book Projects:
- American Ursus: A Cultural and Environmental History of Bears in the South (in writing)
- Wildlife and Civil War dynamics (research stage)
- Edited Volumes:
- Hundreds of Little Wars: Community, Conflict, and the Real Civil War (2025, LSU Press)
- Beyond the Quagmire: New Interpretations of the Vietnam War (2019, UNT Press)
His awards include the Violet Gingles Award for Best Essay (Arkansas Historical Association) and a nomination for the Alice Hamilton Prize (American Society for Environmental History). Beyond academia, he actively engages with natural environments through outdoor activities like fly fishing and forest exploration.
